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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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Button to remove all variables with 0 reference

After finishing more robust developments it would be nice to have a button which would automatically delete all variables which in the final status of development have 0 references. Now we have to scroll through the variables panel and remove one ...
5 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Submitted

Add selector validation to commands

Include a button to validate the selector in commands that use selectors. This greatly facilitates debugging.
6 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Replicate EventListener Lifecycle in BAMOE9.2

Hello, after talking with support they told us that the Task & Processes Lifecycle events are not the same in BAMOE8 and BAMOE9. This is the resume they sent to us: Summary of gap: Feature BAMOE 8.x (jBPM) BAMOE 9.x (Kogito) =================...
6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Future consideration

Add command to switch iframes for web automations with IBM RPA

Many webpages and especially ones which are being used to download various reports based on filters etc, but in general more robust pages, now usually include more then 1,2 iframes. It would be 100% flexibility and efficiency improvement if there ...
7 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

Add Suspend with SuspendUntil functionality for human tasks in BAMOE 9.2.x

We request the reintroduction of the suspend (with suspendUntil parameter) capability for human tasks in BAMOE 9.x. This feature, available in previous versions (e.g., RHPAM 7.x / BAMOE 8.x), allowed suspending a human task via API until a specifi...
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Future consideration

case-sensitive database support in IBM BAMOE

Requesting case-sensitive database support for both the versions, i.e., 8.0.5 and 9.2.1. We are currently using version 8.0.5 with SQL Server, and need the database to be case sensitivity enabled.
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 1 Under review

BAMOE 9.2.0 task's lifecycle should add the "delegate" operation and the "InProgress" status

All BAMOE 8.0.X and previous versions count with a "delegate" operation that enables the use of a task from one user to another, this is, the user of an accepted task can delegate this task, so it's automatically accepted by this new user. All ...
6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Future consideration

Enable the reuse of BPMN subprocesses across projects in BAMOE 9.x.x via Maven dependencies or other non-intrusive mechanisms — without requiring signal-based Call Activities or manual duplication.

It's important for us to be able to reuse BPMN models across different business units — especially when those units don’t need to maintain or directly include all existing models in their own repositories. A common example would be a centralized a...
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Planned for future release

Enhance general product ecosystem - extensibility

An AA metabots-like approach would provide more flexibility and extensibility to the product.
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Planned for future release

Exception Handling for the Scripts

My idea is to have something close to what we have in Blueprism today, a block. A block is a rectangular region that groups together all the stages that fall completely within it. A block can contain its own Recover Stage, which will handle except...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Planned for future release