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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Provide full MSAA support for windows controls, or not at all

IBM RPA only provides partial MSAA support for windows control operations. MSAA addressing for windows controls & UI elements is used by some competing products.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhanced SAP support

IBM RPA should provide full BAPI support for SAP customers
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Visual flow representation for scripts

IBM RPA Studio needs to provide a flow-like visual representation of scripts, including the constructs scripts contain.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

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.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

Enhance general product ecosystem - extensibility

An AA metabots-like approach would provide more flexibility and extensibility to the product.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Future consideration

Get attributes of a web element

Currently, if someone wants to get the href from an anchor tag (<a>), it needs to get the raw html and use regex. It would benefit everyone to get a dictionary of all html attributes of a particular element, that way, anyone can easily inspe...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Automated communications/distribution lists

Create a comprehensive, responsive & automated way of communicating with the 'users' and developers of the bots that can also be adapted to notify certain groups when it wouldn't be appropriate to notify everyone. Examples of situations where ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Chatbot data source for Dashboard

The Dashboard feature of IBM RPA does not have a dedicate data source for chatbots. Creating dashboards for chatbots that use guided user interaction (i.e. limited options for the user) is simple enough, just using counters is enough. For chatbots...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Authorization Oauth 1.0 in the Request HTTP command

I request the addition of the Authorization Oauth 1.0 in the Request HTTP command.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Functionality already exists

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...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Functionality already exists

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