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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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

Robotic Process Automation

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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...
4 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 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...
13 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Robotic Framework

I developed, at the bank where I work, an internal framework aimed at more experienced developers, focused on building complex and enterprise-grade processes, with the goal of increasing productivity, standardization, and robustness. The framework...
21 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 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 "...
about 1 month ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 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.
2 months 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 ...
3 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Planned for future release

Add selector validation to commands

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

Assign variable command

The assign variable command, when selecting the input variable to be configured, allows you to select or append the variable. This should be only select.
5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Is a defect

Ask for required input when bot is executed from Launcher

When a bot has inputs and is running unattended, the control center will request parameters, but when the bot is running unattended through the Launcher, there is no way to request parameters.
5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

ApplySearchFilter: Add support to use Hour And Minute in the Start and End time parameter

For now, the ApplySearchFilter command does not support using the hour and minute format in the start date and end date. The command will not fail or generate any error messages, but the filter will only use the month/date/year
7 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted