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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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Ability for Data Tables and Lists to be referred to in parameterization within Scripts

When working with Datatables you're often locked in to many nested commands. A strong value add would be if we could refer to elements in parameterization. IE Dog Woof Cat Meow Horse Neigh ${vDataTable.cell(1,2)} would equal Cat. This would save c...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide appropriate chatbot behaviour when there're insufficient licenses

When a company has 5 IVA's and 6 customer tried to use the chatbot, the server simply does not start the chatsession for the 6th customer. It might be worthwhile to investigate either - queue mechanism with timer to indicate when a chatbot is avai...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Increase maximum characters value of IBM RPA credential

Currently, the IBM RPA maximum character value for a credential is 255. For example, a token which contains 450 characters makes IBM RPA unable to deal with those cases unless the token string is divided by two credentials, TokenPart1 and TokenPar...
7 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Planned for future release

Runtimes with Multi-Tenant configuration

Having a runtime with a Multi-Tenant configuration (Pointing to more than one Tenant) can make it easier for Teams working on different environments (i.e. Development and Production) for testing stuff using the same runtime and speeding-up their P...
12 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

SAP Start Session command to support SSO Login

Some of our customers have SSO Login configured in their SAP Application. Basically, the goal here is the command SAP Start Session command supports the SSO Login to SAP, so all the other SAP commands can still use that Session (i.e. Attach SAP Se...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

"Wait Download" command could download the filename instead of generating a random name

The "Wait Download" command could use the downloaded filename instead of a random name when the parameter is empty. Currently the system behavior is to generate a random name which can cause confusion when looking for the file in the folders, spe...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

Error message generated when trying to add and authorize a connection with an E-mail

When the E-mail accounts do not have their licenses activated, an error message is generated in the Tenant/Control Center that does not specify the reason for the error. We need a message that is more specific and helps the customer understand th...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Is a defect

Enable users to create launchers based on machines

In the way that IBM RPA is designed today, Launchers created can be visualized by a group of users allowed, no matter which machine is executing Launcher application. The idea here is to add a computer filter as well, for example: 1. Launcher_VM1 ...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Better Variable Scope

As in other programming languages, variable scope would be very useful when calling subroutines. Subroutines should have in and out locally scoped variables that are set in the same way variables are set when calling executeScript
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Create query reporting tool

We are wanting to use the IBM Studio reporting tool, however, when trying to create my queries, I only found one way, which is by dragging the preloaded tables and fields using a 'Query Generator'. That way it's unfeasible, I need to assemble my o...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration