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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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Bring back the right-click option to the Click Windows Command

This feature has been removed in the latest IBM RPA offering of 21.0.2 without a suitable replacement.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Excel Integration - Search by named range / name manager

After some research with the Excel integration verbs, I realized that excelGet and excelGetTable works only with cell ranges or line/column references. There is an available resource inside Excel that allow us to find cell ranges based on a named ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Add links to IBM RPA courses and the official documentation in IBM RPA Studio's Start Page

Add widgets with links to IBM RPA associate courses and IBM RPA's official documentation in IBM RPA Studio's Start Page to increase user visibility to courses and the documentation. The attached image shows the Start Page. Adding visibility to edu...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Log the query that was performed by the bot in any SQL command error

We build queries in ibm rpa by concatenating ibm rpa variables with pre-build int queries. Sometimes those variables may have incorrect values, and the query will fail. The problem is, IBM RPA will not log query in most cases, and when it does, it...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Apply password expiration policy in IBM RPA

A password expiration policy is very important and requested by many customers who have external auditing. One suggestion is for the user to be notified and required to change their password every 90 days.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Improve Studio UI for multiple screens

In Studio, when we drag 2nd script as new window, it doesn't provide panels like Toolbox, Variables, Output. Aim is to have multiple Studio windows on separate monitors. As we can run script only from beginning, we usually copy few lines from main...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Intuitive Error Handling with Retry Counter

Current Error handling and Recovery do not have building in counter to accommodate the retry mechanism. Can we build in some additional level of retry mechanism and finally
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Comando para converter XML para tabela

Assim como temos um comando para converter JSON para tabela, necessitamos de um comando para converter XML para tabela. Temos uma alta demanda para esse comando pois utilizamos muito o XML. Translated : Just as we have a command to convert JSON to...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

In-product outage information and other important news in a modal once we log into the Control Center

Currently, users only get notified of shortages via email. This is easily missed due to the number of emails we all receive. Having a modal once you log into the tenant would be the best way to deal with this.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

License/Computer Certificate Approval functionality for users

Allow users to request for license info/computer certificate from admin users instead of requiring admin to pass these information offline/through email to users
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration