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).


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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,

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  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

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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

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
8 months ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted

OCR enhancements for RPA

Requesting enhancements for Optical Character Recognition within Robotic Process Automation. Specifically OCR Mode Update, for selection accuracy, and OCR handwriting recognition, for reading handwritten text from documents.
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Future consideration

Studio feature to run a script starting from a specific command

It would be very useful for debugging and testing purposes if there was the ability in the IBM RPA Studio to run a script starting from a specific command rather than just from the beginning. So, especially in cases of large scripts, this would al...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Not under consideration

Support for CAC (Common Access Card)/smart card authentication in RPA bots.

Looks like currently this is not supported. In most secure Govt/DoD (Dept of Defense - US) platforms, CAC authentication is required. For scenarios where we have to browse and extract content from CAC-authentication enabled websites, this feature ...
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Future consideration

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 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Is a defect

Jobs Page - Check bots that are running or pending

I want to request the following enhancements for the Jobs page: The Jobs page should filter and display both running and pending bots (if there are any at this state at the moment) , regardless of the specific script associated with them. This wil...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Not under consideration

Office macros could have outputs

The Office macro commands could some kind of output (at the end of the macro execution it could be possible to get the value of some variable from VBA).Currently it is not possible to obtain outputs directly from macro commands, being necessary to...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Future consideration

Support for Custom DPI scaling

Currently, it is not possible to run a bot if the DPI scaling is set to a custom scale (other than 100%). For attended bots, I think this would be a nice feature to include.
about 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Future consideration

Enhance the "Recognize Image Text or PDF" command to allow configurable timeout settings or automatic handling of large/resource-intensive images.

Currently, the command fails with a "Task cancelled" error when processing high-resolution images (4032x3024) due to a fixed 60-second timeout. This requires manual workarounds like pre-processing images via PowerShell. The enhancement would: Intr...
9 months ago in Robotic Process Automation Submitted

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 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation Not under consideration

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