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:

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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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...
almost 1 year 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...
about 1 year 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.
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Increase/remove the character limit of process variables of type text

When we create a process in the orchestrator, we can create process variables that will be linked to variables of the same type when executing the script (bindProcessVariables command), but when doing this with variables of type text, they will ha...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Option to change date format to English(UK)

The language English(United States) show date as MM-DD-YYYY. Customer request is that he would like the option to have ENGLISH (UK) language so dates are DD-MM-YYYY.
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Future consideration

Support for Oracle Forms

There are still quite a few customers that still using / trying to transition from using Oracle Forms that run as applets inside web browser (IE and Edge in IE compatibility mode). Unfortunately IBM RPA is not able to identify the UI elements insi...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Excel command for deleting a row needed

Trying to loading an excel in a data table, deleting a row from the data table, and expecting the row to be deleted on excel. The delete rows command works in memory, literally deleting a row in the variable, not on the excel file. There is no exc...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Move File command return new path

Useful to avoid creating many new variables and having to add many commands just to get a simple path after moving the file. To get the new file path, currently, it is necessary to use "Get File Information" to get the file name and extension (in ...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Capability to orchestrate and manage bot licenses in control room

Providing role based access control in all subscriptions to give flexibility to customers to orchestrate and manage bot licenses in control room.
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Script comment formatting

According to the RPA guidelines: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rpa/21.0?topic=guidelines-comments We should create formatted comments to enable the readability and maintainability of bot scripts. However, it is hard to do this as we have to create c...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

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