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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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:

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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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  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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Leave browser instance open when it hits an error or stopped in debug

Currently when a browser instance hits an error it closes itself. This causes significant pain in trying to develop fast and debug any issues.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Get attributes of a web element

Currently, if someone wants to get the href from an anchor tag (<a>), it needs to get the raw html and use regex. It would benefit everyone to get a dictionary of all html attributes of a particular element, that way, anyone can easily inspe...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Attach to runtime - Validate if the connection is from localhost or external

The IBM RPA should check if the connection between the client and the client running the schedule is local (127.0.0.1) or is being connected by an external address. If the connection is a localhost (127.0.0.1) , the schedule needs to work fine. ...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 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

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 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Command that returns the subfolders within an indicated folder

In the email, sometimes new subfolders appear or some are removed. So I needed something dynamic, a command that I would pass to it the root folder or the connection and it would return the list of subfolders.
9 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability for create a report of computers and schedules on the IBM RPA

IBM RPA users need to generate a report based on their usage.An excellent path for that is providing the users the ability to export a report based on the number of jobs a machine ran, counting the failed, pending, and successful ones in the webcl...
4 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

IBM RPA to fully map scrollable objects in specific applications

In specific Win32 applications, IBM RPA cannot map the text or content of an application which is larger than the screen size. The text inside the the scrollable object is divided in labels which are dynamic according the size of the text. The con...
5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Update process with no outage

The opening of this AHA is due to the necessity to bring high availability to our internal process of updating and maintaining IBM RPA versions. Monthly the IBM RPA is updated to a new version. This update causes an outage during the maintenance ...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Support accessing DB2 BLOB data

IBM RPA cannot read BLOB (binary) data from IBM DB2, although it can read them from other databases. RPA needs to support DB2 fully.
5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

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