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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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edição de arquivos do repositório diretamente do studio do WDG

edição de arquivos do repositório diretamente do studio do WDG, sem a necessidade de baixar o arquivo, talvez numa instância web de git, para que o trabalho colaborativo nos robôs seja mais ágil.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Office macros could have outputs

The Office macro commands could some kind of output (at the end of the macro execution it could be possible to get the value of some variable from VBA).Currently it is not possible to obtain outputs directly from macro commands, being necessary to...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Zoom feature in Designer panel to use smaller text

Zoom feature in Designer panel to use smaller text
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Default setting on script level for timeout on UI commands

• Default setting (on script level?) for timeout on UI activities – and 5 seconds is also too short as default
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists

We have not been able to use multiple monitors when using Studio and interacting with the UI

• We have not been able to use multiple monitors when using Studio and interacting with the UI. This is a limitation because having development on one screen and the application on the other one helps a lot in the process of building scripts
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Default time for handling timeout of running process (so called “Red” time”) has default of 2 min and setting is hidden when publishing

Default time for handling timeout of running process (so called “Red” time”) has default of 2 min and setting is hidden when publishing – very easy to forget to change this.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Email Connection to Outlook - Only able to connect to Outlook when Outlook Window is open

Email Connection to Outlook - Only able to connect to Outlook when Outlook Window is open
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Improve UX with hotkeys (Studio)

Improve the user experience by adding support for hotkeys configurations. Also, improve the existent hotkeys and add new ones to refine the development experience.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Support for embedded script documentation within Studio

Add support for embedded WAL script documentation using special comments. Idealized as walscriptdoc, the idea is that specific comments can be used as the script's documentation. Walscriptdoc considers documenting two main structures: the main sub...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Not under consideration

Add default OCR setting to Studio

when we use OCR-related commands,We have to select the engine and language each time. Since each user basically uses the same engine and language, this task seems very complicated. Therefore, it would be easier to use the tool if there had opti...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration