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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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Enhance product licensing/setup experience

The product licensing/setup experience is an unintuitive process with frequent issues with activating/login/account creation.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Create menu to open Screen Capture Tool while recording

Currently, only the PrtSc key opens the Screen Capture tool. This is not well supported with current VMware image environment for customer education. As a workaround, we must ask students to open the image in RDP and in fullscreen mode to send the...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Control room password not Compliant with Clients requirements #cpfield

in WDG the control room password is limited to 6 characters.. Most clients ( including IBM ) consider a 6 chars password not secure enough as the control room oversees the bots who have passwords from coporate systems to execure their tasks
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Web Recorder does not work with Firefox

Currently, we are told the Web Recorder in RPA Studio only works with Chrome Browser. It would be awesome if support were added for Firefox.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

RPA Support for Edge

We need to support Edge for IBM RPA
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Delivered

Ability to delete computers, processes from Control Center

Users need the ability to "fully" manage artifacts that they create in the Portal (Web Client), such as computers and process.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Delivered

Enable the insertion of items in the native queue by HTTP Request.

On the IBM RPA tool system queue provider, the only way to put a message/intance in the queue, it's by the tool itself. It will be much better, if we could insert queue instances using HTTP Request, Rest or Soap. That way we can start de RPA proce...
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Extend ABBYY to support all of the OCR commands

We have a powerful OCR engine ABBYY included with our product, but for some reason it can not be used with some of the main OCR commands / tools that we have in Studio, like Get PDF Text by OCR.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Enable choosing production version on scheduler instead of always using the same version

When creating a new scheduler, we need to pick a version of the script. When this script is updated, there is no way to change the version of the script used by the scheduler. It would help a lot if we could pick a version or the production versio...
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Enable generation of swagger for any given bot in IBM RPA Studio

To enable easy integration between BAW and IBM RPA, BAW calls bots via REST apis. To ease this process, BAW needs swagger definitions of the bot to call. This swagger definition should be generated in studio based on the bot's input and output par...
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered