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Digital Business Automation Ideas


This is an IBM Automation portal for Digital Business Automation products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Please use the following category to raise ideas for these offerings for all environments (traditional on premises, containers, on cloud):
  • Cloud Pak for Business Automation - including Business Automation Studio and App Designer, Business Automation Insights

  • Business Automation Workflow (BAW) - including BAW, Business Process Manager, Workstream Services, Business Performance Center, Advanced Case Management

  • Content Services - FileNet Content Manager

  • Content Services - Content Manager OnDemand

  • Content Services - Daeja Virtual Viewer

  • Content Services - Navigator

  • Content Services - Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files

  • Content Services - Content Collector for SAP

  • Content Services - Enterprise Records

  • Content Services - Content Manager (CM8)

  • Datacap

  • Automation Document Processing

  • Automation Decision Services (ADS)

  • Operational Decision Manager

  • Robotic Process Automation

  • Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

  • Blueworks Live

  • Business Automation Manager Open Edition

  • IBM Process Mining


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.


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Blueworks Live

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Provide sorting function for properties

Currently it is not possible to change the order of the (custom) process properties. As custom fields might be added/removed over time it would be helpful to have a sorting/rearranging functionality so the property fields can be displayed in a mea...
3 days ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

All users can see who created a blueprint and who last modified it, over 90 days

Give all users the ability to view who created a blueprint and who last modified it, even it has past the current 90-day period. It is crucial to be able to see who created an existing blueprint so if another user has a process that overlaps or du...
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

AI Enhancements - BPMN guidance

Provide guidance on BPMN best practices in blueprints
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review

Enhance new governance functionality

The new governance functionality is a great new feature that we were missing since we introduced BWL in our company. Nevertheless there are still some limitations that are holding us back from activating it. Current limitations: When activating th...
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Planned for future release

AI Enhancements - Evaluate process health and provide report (processes that have owners and do not have owners, last updated/stale, unpublished vs published maps)

AI Enhancements - Evaluate process health and provide reports (processes that have owners and do not have owners, last updated/stale, unpublished vs published maps)
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Under review

Governance workflow owner can't publish maps then delegate to another user (someone else needs to submit to publish so I can reassign)

Governance workflow owner can't publish maps then delegate to another user (someone else needs to submit to publish so I can reassign)
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Limit who can create new spaces at the highest level (only admins) – no restrictions on the spaces at the highest level in your library, user restrictions begin inside of those spaces

Limit who can create new spaces at the highest level (only admins) – no restrictions on the spaces at the highest level in your library, user restrictions begin inside of those spaces
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 0 Submitted

Feasibility in moving arrows on process diagram

Customer trying to move arrows form one place to another place ( based on business requirement) on process diagram , some time arrows are not moving , or some times when they move arrows diagram is getting messed up. attached screen shots with exa...
2 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Provide option for viewers to only display properties containing a value

Current limitation: When a viewer displays a process documentation and selects "Show All Details" all property fields are being displayed no matter if they contain a value or not. This is negatively impacting the overview and is not consistent wit...
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

AI Enhancements - Indicate duplicate maps or where maps could link/connect to each other

AI Enhancements - Indicate duplicate maps or where maps could link/connect to each other
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 1 Needs more information