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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 image for captured control

Would be nice to have a highlighted image of every captured control. This would facilitate identifying where in the page is the element captured.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Add command to switch iframes for web automations with IBM RPA

Many webpages and especially ones which are being used to download various reports based on filters etc, but in general more robust pages, now usually include more then 1,2 iframes. It would be 100% flexibility and efficiency improvement if there ...
7 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

Support for shared files in Google Drive

Google Drive actual version is on V3 and IBM RPA uses V2. The new version (V3) supports a few new features, for example, reading/manipulating files that are shared with your Drive account, inside the "Shared With Me" folder. This would be useful f...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Disable error handling

Add a command to disable error handling after activating it (eg: vb.net "End Try", vba "On Error GoTo 0")
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Shortcut to delete all unused objects

To start new projects, we often start by copying another script, leaving many variables, routines or assets without any reference in the development, also because sometimes we forget to delete it, anyway. Given this, it would be very productive...
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Order Process instances by execution time, not name

When you're working with an orchestration process, you usually want to analyze the instances by date/time of execution, not necessarily by its name. Due to that, we can change the instance list to be ordered by date/time by default, not by name.
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Having the possibility to export Scripts from Control Center with their schedule to import into a different environment.

If customer has multiple environment he can move Scripts with their schedule to a different environment without uploading and scheduling one by one.
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Migrate from MSMQ to IBM MQ system queue provider in IBM RPA

In situations where MSMQ does not fit the organizational needs in terms of package availability or network complexity, there's the need to use IBM MQ as the IBM RPA system queue provider to work with schedules and processes. Currently, this operat...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Export/Import scripts from/to control center

Capability to be able to export/import scripts from control center with RBAC added to restrict this access to certain users.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

create a multipart form data http request containing a json and a file

Based on the forum post created by Pedro Botolli Santos https://community.ibm.com/community/user/automation/discussion/how-to-create-a-multipart-form-data-http-request-containing-a-json-and-a-file-in-the-request-body?ReturnUrl=%2fcommunity%2fuser%...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Functionality already exists