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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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View Participant when exporting to word for linked processes

View Participant when exporting to word for linked processes. Only able to see for who the participant for an activity that's not a linked process.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

Label swimlanes on right margin when exporting to .pdf

PDF files lack swimlane labels on the right margin.
almost 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Is a defect

Allow links to be shared in checklist templates

When creating a checklist template you are only afforded the option to attach documents. It would be quite helpful if links to one or more supporting documents could be provided, preferably at the task level. Placing links elsewhere would be accep...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

Extend /scr/api/ManageGroup to list tags associated with User Groups

User Groups support tagging, and the ManageGroups API help says that it "extracts details about a specific group." but it does not include tags associated with the User Group. Please extend the Get method on ManageGroups to include tags.
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under consideration

Setting default tab as account preference

How the activity properties being used depends on how user documents the process. Some users may prefer properties tab, and others may prefer document tab as the primary windows for inputting properties. The default tab for properties window is be...
over 7 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Not under consideration

Enable generic broadcast to all BW users within an account by admin.

Develop a tool that enables the admin to send a broadcast message within their account to either their entire account community or only to their admins; selectable by the admin
almost 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Not under consideration

Being able to see full process name

Process names are truncated in spaces and there is no way of seeing the whole name at a glance. It would be great to be able to see the full name
about 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Not under consideration

Admin Feature - Quicker Access Administration

Admin must go through many screens to add users to various spaces or groups. Often users want mirrored access to their co-workers as well. This requires a call back to the user and their coworker or for Admin to comb the db to determine where thei...
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Not under consideration

“Critical” Flagging option within Property Field

Currently there is no option to flag Critical values within Property Fields Currently the resolution is to update 2 Property Fields. 1 for Critical values and 1 for Non-Critical values. This is creating double work to populate in 2 different field...
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Add a Dictionary type to Glossary to define an Acronym/Definition term and its meaning - display both in artifacts

Adding a new Acronym/Definition type in the Glossary would allow predefined entries that could be accessed from within the process model. When entering the term in the Details panel, the selection of matching terms would appear in the picklist. On...
about 1 month ago in Blueworks Live 3 Functionality already exists