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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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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Shortcut to Step logs in Process Orchestration

In Process Orchestration, the tab "Execution flow" could have a direct link to the execution log of each Step of the instance. I believe this was available in the previous version of the interface and saved a lot of time when trying to find logs c...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Dashboard with error summary

It will be helpful if the dashboard has deeper details, such as for failed jobs what is the most common errors and maybe the script line number as well so it's easier for developers to debug the script later on their studio.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Visual flow representation for scripts

IBM RPA Studio needs to provide a flow-like visual representation of scripts, including the constructs scripts contain.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Button to go up in the sub hierarchy (breadcrumbs style)

When developing using multiple Subs, it is common to reuse a Sub in another and this might lead to some nested levels. Currently, going back to the previous Sub is painful, since this is what you can do: Go back to the Main of the script and try t...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability to download KB in a command

We have the ability to upload a knowledgebase with a single command, but we don't have the ability to download a knowledgebase with a single command.
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Env Var for Executing User

Add Environment Variables such as Executing User that may include the values of the logged in user who executed the attended automation OR if it's unattended it might be some source schedule info or REST API calling parameters.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

IBM endorsed RPA sample bots are accessible from Studio

No description provided
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide an inline evaluator within the scripts for mathematical processing

Instead of having to do math calculate commands everytime we want to modify a number value it would be great if we could designate some evaluated math that would return values. For instance if I wanted to select vIndex + 1 instead of using a comma...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Change runWindowsScript to allow multiple returns

While using "Run Windows Script" to execute Visual Basic scripts, the issue is that the output is limited to 1 string that's printed by the code. Request is to have the choice to list the output variables to be extracted from the code
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Enhancement/Plugin that allow bot commands to be run on remote desktop

Current remote connection only register the enter remote desktop as a window and hence require OCR-based command to interact. OCR-based commands are more difficult and less intuitive for use since they are not at 100% accuracy, takes longer time, ...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

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