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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    Human-in-the-loop Command improvement

    Functionality that would be helpful is if our human in the loop commands had these additional functionality. Multiple Select Options - Have the ability to have customizable Buttons and dropdowns by feeding in a list Allow for message box command t...
    over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Ability to purge orchestration processes from the Database

    When using orchestration feature on RPA, you can get a high volume of records within the database (for some customers, over 100.000+ records) that may use unnecessary file system from the database. The idea is to create a feature to purge this dat...
    5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

    Visual confirmation that Studio reached a Breakpoint

    Breakpoints are essential to debugging and Studio doesn't show any visual signs that it stopped at a breakpoint if another application is maximized. The only way to be sure if it hit a breakpoint is by going to Studio and looking at the interface,...
    over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    hCaptcha command

    Several websites are migrating from recaptcha to hcaptcha and we don't have a command that supports this feature.
    about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

    Support Secure String Inputs for Remote Bot Execution via API and User Prompts

    Currently, IBM RPA lacks the ability to: Accept secure strings (masked/encrypted inputs) dynamically during bot execution (e.g., via Input Box commands). Pass secure strings as parameters through API-triggered bot executions, The only way to use t...
    6 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

    Webservice request using .pfx certificate

    We need IBM RPA to support performing a web service request passing a pfx certificate.Both commands need to have https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rpa/21.0?topic=web-http-request and https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rpa/21.0?topic=web-soap-request.
    over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

    Please include folder manipulation in the FTP commands

    It is currently not possible to create or delete folders with the IBM RPA FTP commands and this is something very basic that other tools like Automation Anywhere v11 have. When we are working with a file server, the need to manipulate folders is e...
    almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Several conditions in the same IF/DO/DO WHILE statement

    Allow IBM RPA Studio to add several conditions joint with AND or OR in the same IF/DO/DO WHILE statement.
    over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    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...
    6 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

    Emergency exit for a running bot

    Currently, RPA is not offering any way to abort a bot when it's running if a user does not have admin rights to kill the running process. Even if the user has such admin rights, it's not recommended to use this method as it will remain unclear whi...
    over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

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