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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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Improve the 'JSON to Table' command in WDG Studio and other commands with this function

Today the command 'JSON to Table' only accepts JSON that is inside an object: { {...} }. When JSON starts with an array: [ {...} ]. It gives an error.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

SFTP commands to improve UI fields terminology

Address the following terms in the product to make it clearer for the user: File Name -> Local file path Host Server Path -> Host Server Address Remote Path -> FTP Server Path Example of commands involved: Upload file to FTP server: https...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Have a field to inform the OCR DPI

When working with PDF data extraction, using OCR, the default DPI value of the "Get PDF Region Text" command is 110, leaving the image very small, reducing the accuracy of the result. Having a field where I can easily change this number and have I...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Future consideration

Multiple Select Option for Human in the Loop Commands

As an RPA user interested in human in the loop tasks (message boxes, input pop ups), I would like the ability to have combo boxes or multiple select options
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Improved credential control

We are in the process of migrating a client and your security team has raised the point about the IBM RPA where all vault credentials are available to all users and scripts. They requested an improvement in the tool so that each credential is lin...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Better support for Data Row variables

The Data Row variable type already exists, but there is no command to get a complete row from a table, for example. This would be useful when passing parameters from one script to another, like in a transactional process where the Data Row is the ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow deleting credentials even if they are on inactive schedules

I opened a support case with this issue number TS008442792 and they were instructed to open a new idea here. The problem is that Control Center RPA does not delete credentials EVEN WHEN IT IS ONLY ON INACTIVE SCHEDULES. If the credential is on an ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Ability to Pin Folders to the Start Page

If like me, you have bot scripts saved in many different local folders, it makes it slow difficult to find bots you have worked on in the past. So it would be great to be able to pin a folders to the Start Page so you can quickly find the correct ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Add links to IBM RPA courses and the official documentation in IBM RPA Studio's Start Page

Add widgets with links to IBM RPA associate courses and IBM RPA's official documentation in IBM RPA Studio's Start Page to increase user visibility to courses and the documentation. The attached image shows the Start Page. Adding visibility to edu...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Seamless integration with IBM Process Mining

Integrate IBM Process Mining and IBM RPA. Feed Process Mining with logs from RPA bots, so Process Mining can analyze bot processes, make recommendations for process improvements and find gaps. Create an RPA bot from the Task Mining output of Proce...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration