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).


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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:

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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    Automatically show the input and output parameters of sub files when using execute script

    It would be great if we can automatically show input and output parameters when we use the execute script command. In current state we need to manually flip back and forth between scripts and look at the files that have inputs and outputs so we ca...
    over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Planned for future release

    Unattended Bot Scheduler is unreliable​, and should work without failures showing clear logging to increase confidence

    The scheduler is not reliable. It uses an asynchronous process. As a result, we need to wait until the "trigger event" to know if it worked or not. Because it is asynchronous, we have no confirmation of any error when scheduling an unattended bot....
    over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

    Run type field in the data-source on the dashboard

    With the new licensing format, the customer has no way to follow the usage of his license via the dashboard, because we have no information in the data source on whether that record is from an attended bot or unattended bot execution.
    over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

    Use secure string variables in certain commands

    Certain commands, like httpRequest or runWindowsScript that could require credentials for some actions, do not allow secure string variables in their declarations. A review of all commands that could benefit from secure strings is required. Try to...
    over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Future consideration

    IBM RPA Server - Support for SQL Server 2025

    Some customers are upgrading their Windows Server environment to the latest version, Windows Server 2025, which is currently not supported by our solution. This limitation is blocking their deployment plans, as they cannot install the IBM RPA serv...
    5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 2

    Interaction with iframes in different contexts

    All web commands do not support the interaction in iframes with different contexts. For example: A website with a page that contains five iframe contexts, with all of them being identical. Field1 Field2 Field3 Field4 Field5 If I try to interact wi...
    over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Read & write parameters in RPA Control Center #SPGI #ClientEngineering #RPA

    There are some situations, especially in orchestration processes, where we need to pass information between one process and the next one. For example: counters, boolean or text values. It would be very useful to have, not only read access, but as ...
    almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

    Check status that are "Running" or "Cancelling"

    If there are any problems with the communication between the client and the Server, you may have problems when a bot is running or canceling an instance of a process. The bot will get stuck with these statuses and will not be changed. A good idea ...
    almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Is a defect

    Assign variable command

    The assign variable command, when selecting the input variable to be configured, allows you to select or append the variable. This should be only select.
    2 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Is a defect

    Ask for required input when bot is executed from Launcher

    When a bot has inputs and is running unattended, the control center will request parameters, but when the bot is running unattended through the Launcher, there is no way to request parameters.
    2 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

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