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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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Add DayOfTheWeek to the DateTime properties

This idea is to add a way for IBM RPA to provide the day of the week based on a data or datetime variable. Currently the properties for the datetime variable in IBM RPA give you: Hour, Minute, Second, Milliesecond, TimeOfDay, Year. Having DayOfWee...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow to get Data Row as collection

We need a simple solution to "export" a row as a collection that can later be used elsewhere. It is not possible to do this currently without knowing every column's name beforehand. It would be great if the output was of Data Row type that could h...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Add Dashboard's Owner info

For user within the control room, it would be nice to know who is the owner of a specific dashboard. Our only way currently to do so is to imply a rule such as "name a dashboard, starting with your username" but if your roadmap allow it, that woul...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Remove Timeout of connection to server using On-Premise Version

When using the On-Premise version of IBM RPA, we have a limitation where every 2 hours, the system disconnect from the server, and the process returns errors during the execution of any script. We do not have any pop-up to inform us that the Studi...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Support for Adobe Flex applications

Using computer vision is really faulty to work with applications built on Adobe Flex. Understanding the Flash/Flex naming and technologies: https://stackoverflow.com/a/69040/1830639
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

I want a command that moves columns in excel

A command that works for both excel .xlsx and .xlsm files that moves columns or creates columns in the middle of a table of data.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow using external data sources in the ibm rpa dashboard

Today, in order to create a dashboard that presents relevant information, we need to create a process in the orchestrator and add the values to be used in the dashboard as variables, however, in cases where the orchestrator is not used (e.g. sched...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Read Excel dates as DateTime

Currently, when the robot reads a date that is in an Excel file it is interpreted as the raw number that Excel uses for dates (based on 1899 or something along those lines). This forces us to use a few commands just to convert it to DateTime and o...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Be able to descrypt a file via RPA in 1 script and decrpyt it in another script.

Decrypt a file via RPA does not work unless you encrypt the file within the same script , which is pointless.The problem is that you can't store the Cipher in a file with RPA and because you can't generate the same EAS Encryption Cipher more than ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Functionality already exists

If would be great if IBM RPA could provide feature to generate PGP private/public keys and use them to decrypt or encrypt files. Given that this can't be done using the AES Encryption Cipher.

TO be able to ecrypt and decrypt a file using private and publich keys is essential in processing. Since RPA purposrts to offer encryption and decryption functionality PGP capabilites should be part of this
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Functionality already exists