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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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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...
about 3 years 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
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 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
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhancements on the recorder

The recorder will map more applications through natural utilization, and automatic component detection and will not depend on Windows drivers. Users require that because the target applications are generally automation blockers when surface automa...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under 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 3 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 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 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...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under 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.
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Logoff after finishing bot execution

If I use the logoff command in the script, my execution fails because the execution doesn't expect to terminate my bot and close the user.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Not under consideration

Add IBM RPA chatbot integration for "Line" app

Request to add chatbot support for "Line" application. Integrating the chatbot with channels in IBM RPA on premises - IBM Documentationhttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rpa/21.0?topic=prem-integrating-chatbot-channels-in-rpa-premises
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists