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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

My ideas: Robotic Process Automation

To extend the current indent guide line and/or to change font size in designer mode to increase the number of lines included.

In complex automations developed in IBM Robotic Process Automation Designer, workflows often contain multiple nested conditions, loops, and exception-handling blocks that are currently displayed at the same visual level. This makes large scripts d...
3 months ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted

Prioritization of machines/processes

Prioritizing machines/processes to avoid the need for manual rescheduling of executions.
about 1 month ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted

Email Thread Creation when replying emails using microsoftMailConnect

This feature request aims to improve email automation by ensuring consistent conversation threading The expected behavior is for the automation to always maintain thread continuity: when replying to a single email with no existing thread, it shoul...
18 days ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted

Visibility of available machine hours with gaps for computer runtime usage

Visibility of available machine hours with gaps for computer runtime usage with no need to manually control them.
about 1 month ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted

Ability to add variable as path to script in Execute Script command

Starting from version v30.0.1, Execute Script command automatically loads Parameters from the script being called. Due to that, variables are no longer acceptable in the command's path as they get created by runtime. The idea is to add a flag so t...
about 1 month ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted

Ability to control executions on RPA Launcher

When a bot gets stuck, hangs, or encounters unexpected behavior during execution, users have no option to pause or terminate the bot from the Launcher UI. This idea is to add the options for Stopping/Pausing a bot executed through Launcher.
5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted

Add Support for Island Enterprise Browser

The Island Enterprise Browser is not currently a supported browser in IBM RPA. Several customers are now migrating to Island as their corporate standard and need to port their existing automations to work with it. Native support in commands like "...
5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted

Start Browser in Selenium's Stealth Mode

As it is today, IBM RPA's Start Browser command doesn't have the option to start the browser in Selenium's Stealth Mode. The idea is to create a flag to enable this.
12 months ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted

API endpoint to list executed bots

IBM RPA uses API endpoints to call Bots outside of Control Center context, like an external application. Customer suggested having an API endpoint to check for the history of bot executions to understand whether an instance has been executed or no...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted

IBM RPA - Web Recorder - Not able to download the extension file

We request that the Web Recorder.CRX file be added to the IBM Passport Advantage portal or included with the IBM RPA client installer. Currently, the Web Recorder extension is only available for installation via the Google Chrome Web Store. Howeve...
4 months ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted

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