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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).


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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:

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,

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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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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

Be able to delete and edit process's variables

We need to be able to delete and edit process variables in the orchestrator. When you create a process in the orchestrator, on this process you can and will create variables, but when you create a variable with the wrong name or wrong type, you w...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Show display name of resources instead of only IDs in Audit Log

Scenario 1: Creating a role in the non-productive environment (BR2). Created role "TESTE_FUNCAO". Screenshot_1_-_Creat.png At the moment the role is created, we would like to see in the LOG the reference of the name used at the moment ...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Add support to run Python scripts

Some things are done easier in Python, so it would be great to have the possibility of running Python scripts and capturing the output (probably as strings).
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future 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 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Command Connection with Terminals with instance output referring to the created connection

It would be interesting that the commands that create a connection with the terminals not only have the Boolean output 'Success' but also have an instance-type output that allows sharing the connection created with other scripts, such as a paramet...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Intuitive Error Handling with Retry Counter

Current Error handling and Recovery do not have building in counter to accommodate the retry mechanism. Can we build in some additional level of retry mechanism and finally
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Recognize automatically selectors

Instead of creating by yourself the selector or use the web inspector to create it, allow Click activities and Type activities (in browser and Desktop) to select the button or field to click or type and identificate automatically the selector.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

HTTP POST calls should be logged

When using the HTTP POST command, it would be useful for the log file to show the raw HTTP request (such as in curl format) so that issues can be easily debugged.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhanced SAP support

IBM RPA should provide full BAPI support for SAP customers
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration