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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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Continuously update execution logs in the Control Center

It would be great if the logs were sent from time to time to the Web Client, being updated frequently, instead of only at the end of the execution. Not as much as to cause performance issues, but enough to know that the robot isn't stuck. Currentl...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Functionality already exists

Import WAL scripts into RPA Studio

At the moment, RPA Studio does not allow users to import scripts that are not stored in a file not formatted as a wal file. As for now, I can paste code that I have in an external file into a new one that I create in RPA Studio. Once the code is i...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Future consideration

Attach to window when using "Start Browser" action

When working with websites, there are many time when regular browser actions do not work, so window actions are needed, such as send keys (not webkeys). When using Start browser the window is not attached and it causes a conflict if another action...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Not under consideration

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.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Send an email with outlook request confirmation email option

Send an email with request confirmation option would be good because a return receipt in special cases are necessary due to audit purpose.
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Allow only authenticated users to execute scripts through API

Implement an authentication flow for API calls to IBM RPA clients. There are multiple business concerns with the lack of authenticated calls: 1- It's impossible to check which tenant user triggered specific scripts. 2- With the proper policy...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Output ID of email messages in the Read Email command

It is useful to correctly identify emails. Consider this use case: the process has multiple steps, and the first one is to read emails and get attachments, then do some processing on the files and lastly go back to the email and reply to that spec...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future 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.
almost 4 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...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Not under consideration

Web version of IBM RPA Studio

Web interface for IBM RPA studio for SAAS to facilitate anytime anywhere access
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration