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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  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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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...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Remove 24h Restriction on Credential Vault

Remove or allow the Credential Vault Timeout to be set on the server instead of forcing a 24h Attended timeout
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

set variable, substitute variable and not concatenate

When you want to set a value for a variable, in the input of which variable you want to set the variable doesnt substitute the previous variable if it was. It should be a select and not an append.
8 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Capability of adding trusted origin URLs (CORS) through the UI

The idea is to allow an user to add trusted origin URLs in case web-based applications want to consume IBM RPA API. Adding a section on the UI to add these URLs would make it easier for users to configure the feature.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Future consideration

Ability for Data Tables and Lists to be referred to in parameterization within Scripts

When working with Datatables you're often locked in to many nested commands. A strong value add would be if we could refer to elements in parameterization. IE Dog Woof Cat Meow Horse Neigh ${vDataTable.cell(1,2)} would equal Cat. This would save c...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Parameter in Control Center for insert OCR/Captcha API-key

The Control Center can have an OCR and Captcha Api-Key configuration parameter, for all scripts to use automatically without the need to enter command by command Today if the customer has a large number of bots, they need to update command by c...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Download All Logs at once

It would be very helpful to be able to have a checkbox in the jobs section that would allow us to select one, some or all logs to be downloaded at once.
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 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.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Automated communications/distribution lists

Create a comprehensive, responsive & automated way of communicating with the 'users' and developers of the bots that can also be adapted to notify certain groups when it wouldn't be appropriate to notify everyone. Examples of situations where ...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide appropriate chatbot behaviour when there're insufficient licenses

When a company has 5 IVA's and 6 customer tried to use the chatbot, the server simply does not start the chatsession for the 6th customer. It might be worthwhile to investigate either - queue mechanism with timer to indicate when a chatbot is avai...
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

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