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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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Show list of jobs in web portal when you enter page and sort in descending date order

When opening https://eu1app.wdgautomation.com/#/en-US/scripts/scripts/jobs, the list of jobs are not in any particular order. Expected behaviour would be to see them in descending date/time order (by either Start or End). To view the latest jobs ...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

An option to upload script files to control center

We cannot upload any files to control IBM control center directly. We can only publish bot script files(wal) from Studio. Allow to publish or import other script files (like .bat or .vbs or .js) to IBM control room so that we can directly do modif...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Add POP3 Support to IBM RPA

A customer has a bunch on linux servers and they use the POP3 servers on these machines to orchestrate them. They are aware of the fact that this is no future-proof solution but it will not change soon. In order to automate these mechanisms RPA wo...
8 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Export schedules, computers and users list

For managing tenant. It would be great to have functions that allow exporting all schedules (active/inactive within timeframe) as well as computers and users in the tenant in their respective management tab
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

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

Allow Knowledge Base V2 to be started with no initial Excel upload

In current state the user has to download sample kb from documentation, cleanse it, then reupload it to get a fresh start. This should be automatic
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Sometimes when you copy-paste rows from other scripts, variable declarations are not put into top and are not recognized as already created ones

Sometimes when you copy-paste rows from other scripts, variable declarations are not put into top and are not recognized as already created ones
over 1 year 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...
9 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Improve Toolbar search

Currently the search field in the Toolbar only returns results for the exact match and this can be much more helpful if it were more flexible. For example, when searching for the "Click on Web Page" command, if you input "click web", "web click", ...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration