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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

AI Agent Introduction

AI Agent should not have to introduce itself every time a user logs in. We should be able to get more information as an option if we need to but not have to close out of it every time we open a session.
about 2 months ago in Blueworks Live Delivered

Provide ability to not include archived users in user export

When exporting user lists it includes archived users but almost 99% of the time I don't need the archived users so I have to delete them from the CSV file so I can work with the data. While not a huge deal, it would be a time savings to be able to...
about 1 year ago in Blueworks Live Delivered

AI Enhancements - BPMN guidance

Provide guidance on BPMN best practices in blueprints
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live Delivered

Increase the number of allowed characters in a numerical custom field

Request: Increase the quantity of characters allowed in a numeric field When using a custom numerical property, for example: Volume Current value can be: 1234567890 Required value: 12345678901111 Requirement is to deal with 10s of billions or bigg...
5 months ago in Blueworks Live Delivered

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)
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live Delivered

6Only editors & contributors or admins can copy spaces to other Blueworks Live accounts – would like “admins & editors” as an option in "Customization" tab

Only editors & contributors or admins can copy spaces to other Blueworks Live accounts – would like “admins & editors” as an option in "Customization" tab
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live Delivered

Assign work task to group

Being able to assign work task to a group of users and not just to a named person
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live Delivered

Make emails for user invite, expired invite etc configurable so we can remove the name of the admin that invited and direct new user to our support service for any issues

When a user is invited, the name of the admin that invited is sent to the user in the invite. The email specifically say "You have been invited by {this admin name} to join your organization's Blueworks Live account, and "Contact {this admin name}...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live Delivered

Linked 'From' and Linked 'To' - processes to be displayed for user with Viewer licenses

In 'Process summary', or 'where used', the Linked 'From' published processes and Linked 'To' published processes is visible to an Editor. The same feature to be made available for Viewer licence as well.
about 5 years ago in Blueworks Live Delivered

Ability to extend in-active sessions for Blueworks Live

System: Blueworks LiveActor: User accessing the Blueworks Live with in corporate domain network Blueworks Live is a commonly used product that provides support to L5-L7 process mangement & governance. As the process changes are frequest and ha...
almost 6 years ago in Blueworks Live Delivered