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

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 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability for create a report of computers and schedules on the IBM RPA

IBM RPA users need to generate a report based on their usage.An excellent path for that is providing the users the ability to export a report based on the number of jobs a machine ran, counting the failed, pending, and successful ones in the webcl...
11 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

IBM RPA to fully map scrollable objects in specific applications

In specific Win32 applications, IBM RPA cannot map the text or content of an application which is larger than the screen size. The text inside the the scrollable object is divided in labels which are dynamic according the size of the text. The con...
11 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Support accessing DB2 BLOB data

IBM RPA cannot read BLOB (binary) data from IBM DB2, although it can read them from other databases. RPA needs to support DB2 fully.
11 months 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 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

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