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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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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

Timeout for the navigate command

For now, the navigate command will load a page until the command reaches the "Page Load Timeout" on the Start browser, after reaching the timeout, you'll get an error "Timed Out receiving Message from Rendereder". There are some ECAC websites whe...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Add Breakpoints pane to the interface

It would be useful to have a panel where we could see all breakpoints set in the code, so we can easily manage them easier (enable, disable and go to location). Currently, there is only a button to delete all breakpoints, but to manage individual ...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Not under consideration

Use "Web Send Keys" with special and regular keys

I am automating a site built with SAP and there are certain difficulties in automating it because the fields need to be manipulated simulating a human, otherwise the site does not identify the entries made. Because of this, in one of the fields...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 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

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 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Zoom feature in Designer panel to use smaller text

Zoom feature in Designer panel to use smaller text
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Default setting on script level for timeout on UI commands

• Default setting (on script level?) for timeout on UI activities – and 5 seconds is also too short as default
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Ignore error button + Retry button when debugging

Ignore error button + Retry button when debugging – if errors are raised you can only rely on exception handling even when debugging
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Heartbeat feature for computers to see if they are online or not

Heartbeat feature for computers to see if they are online or not and if currently in use and what script is running
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration