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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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Provide custom order of Buttons in IBM RPA Launcher application

For Business users its better to provide the order of BUTTONS in Launcher for easy running of bots one by one. Sometimes IBM RPA Launcher cannot keep the order of the buttons when created.
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Option to display/export Queue in IBM control center

In the Control Center. I would like to have a option to display/export the data added to the Queue(like in UiPath tool) . Right now I don't have any option to even see the data in the control center.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 9 Future consideration

Citrix Remote Agent Work integration

Can we have similar functionality to this -> https://apeople.automationanywhere.com/s/feed/0D56F00006f4SC2SAM?language=en_US
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Cache scripts before starting execution

IBM RPA seems to download the script from the cloud every time an Invoke Script is used, which occasionally leads to execution errors due to network instability (failing to download the script). Probably a better approach would be to cache all nee...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Streamline Key Creation via Wizard

A nice to have feature would be to embed some functionality to generate public and private certs into the tenant configuration tab of the web portal. This would allow an administrator to download a public and private key. It would NOT replace the ...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Close browser/ Close process improvement

It was verified that the commands "Close browser" and "Close Process" does not work in all scenarios, there are some cases that they don't work as intended. The browser and/or process kept running. As a workaround, the command taskkill /f /im chro...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Import WAL scripts into RPA Studio

At the moment, RPA Studio does not allow users to import scripts that are not stored in a file not formatted as a wal file. As for now, I can paste code that I have in an external file into a new one that I create in RPA Studio. Once the code is i...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Future consideration

Improve UX with hotkeys (Studio)

Improve the user experience by adding support for hotkeys configurations. Also, improve the existent hotkeys and add new ones to refine the development experience.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Output ID of email messages in the Read Email command

It is useful to correctly identify emails. Consider this use case: the process has multiple steps, and the first one is to read emails and get attachments, then do some processing on the files and lastly go back to the email and reply to that spec...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Web version of IBM RPA Studio

Web interface for IBM RPA studio for SAAS to facilitate anytime anywhere access
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration