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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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Robotic Process Automation

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Email listener from triggering scripts

You may need to trigger a script execution when an email is received in your inbox. The idea is create this listener for email providers so once a specific email is received, a RPA script is triggered to perform any meaningful actions based on the...
4 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Add excel Command support to work with Confidential Excel File(Tag Internal)

The excelCommand currently fails when processing files tagged as confidential(tag internal). As a workaround, we're forced to use the officeCommand, which experiences performance degradation when reading large Excel files. We request an improvemen...
5 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 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...
4 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Enable "Attach to Schedule" for Bot Project Schedules

Currently, the "Attach to Schedule" feature only works with legacy script schedules and cannot connect to schedules created in Bot Projects. This forces users to manually use "Attach to Runtime" after bots start running, making debugging less effi...
3 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Reserve capacity for specefic projects

Implementing capacity reservation for specific projects in RPA would offer improved resource allocation, improved scalability. This could also help organization optimize their RPA deplyments.
3 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

SSO Support for RPA SaaS

This feature can be beneficial for customer to have a more robust authentication when logging into the platform. This would allow customer to use MFA based on their identity provider.
3 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted