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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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Recognize automatically selectors

Instead of creating by yourself the selector or use the web inspector to create it, allow Click activities and Type activities (in browser and Desktop) to select the button or field to click or type and identificate automatically the selector.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

HTTP POST calls should be logged

When using the HTTP POST command, it would be useful for the log file to show the raw HTTP request (such as in curl format) so that issues can be easily debugged.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

change name of regex patten on regex builder

currently we can't change name of regex pattern on regex builder. developer should be able to cahnge name of regex patten. detailed steps are as follows. launch IBM RPA Studio. open regex builder from Tools > Regular Expression Builder click a...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Files OST

Generate a command to obtain the entire OST file through an Imap connection instead of just the information.
8 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Enhance driver/file dependent commands to include a visible note for the user

Today, users are warned by the product itself that some commands require drivers or file dependencies. For example, for using the Connect To MySQL command, the users needs to download the driver and add the driver to the IBM RPA directory. We sugg...
8 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhanced SAP support

IBM RPA should provide full BAPI support for SAP customers
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhance the recorder feature

The current recorder approach is confusing/quirky/unintuitive. No guidance is provided for new users (e.g. for using control key) and the approach feels unfinished.
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

Improve Get Text/Scraping Capabilities

We need to improve IBM RPA's scraping capabilities since there are many controls where it simply fails to extract the text, specially on Windows applications. It could be a command like the Get Visible Text from UiPath, which usually is able to ex...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhanced executeScript

executeScript could have a sibling method called assignScript where a script could be assigned to a variable of type 'script', along with any script initial variable assignments. The script could then be called by calling the variable as a paramet...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Use local time-zone in email-search-fliter command

We have to manually calculate the timezone difference before input into the email search filter. Is it possible to give choose-timezone options or use-local-time zone option for this command? It is really inconvented to calculate timezone differen...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration