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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Robotic Process Automation

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    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 "...
    about 14 hours ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

    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 ...
    about 2 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Planned for future release

    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.
    21 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

    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 ...
    8 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

    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...
    over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Planned for future release

    Improved Expired Certificate Handling for IBM RPA

    When the IBM RPA certificate expires, the license will be deactivated with the message "Invalid Certificate". Note that this is different from license expiration, it's the certificate. After some research, we discovered that the certificate has a ...
    almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

    Bot attach in Chrome open by user

    During the execution of the bot, the bot uses a Google Chrome session opened by the user. With that, the bot does not need to open an instance and be login, among other uses. For example, in the Process, it would be possible to reuse the chrome op...
    almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 6

    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.
    7 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Submitted

    Add "Cancel Execution" Button for Scheduled Jobs in "Projects"

    Currently, users cannot cancel a scheduled robot execution directly from the "Projects" interface—this action is only available via "Workflow." This limitation creates inefficiencies when urgent intervention is needed. The enhancement proposes add...
    6 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

    Improvement of command 'Create from Data Table'

    Currently, command Create from Data Table does not save Datatable columns with their format ( number as number, date as date ) but as the excel where it is saved is formatted. A switch option to keep format of Data table would be very beneficial. ...
    almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Not under consideration

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