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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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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

RPA integration with Github and Devops

allow RPA bots development to interact with Github
almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Clean pending processes on queue

Possibility to clean pending processes on queue. We identified that in some cases the processes were not executed and remained pending. The same happened with scripts that were running and failed, generating a backlog of pending processes (even if...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Delete items in queue #SPGI #ClientEngineering #RPA

Being able to delete items with status "New" or "Pending" from the queue. This allows you to stop or shorten some executions where it is not necessary to go on processing items uplodaded in queue
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Add capability to read only unread emails in a folder using ReadMail command

Currently, the ReadMail command processes all emails in a specified folder without the ability to filter for only unread messages. A good feature for the ReadMail command is to include a parameter that allows filtering to only unread emails.
4 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Submitted

Information about the expiry of the license

IBM business partners who control their customers' licenses need to know the expiration date of the licenses, so that we can carry out the controls and renew them for the customers. This information was previously in the Tenant, and with the new l...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhance the "Recognize Image Text or PDF" command to allow configurable timeout settings or automatic handling of large/resource-intensive images.

Currently, the command fails with a "Task cancelled" error when processing high-resolution images (4032x3024) due to a fixed 60-second timeout. This requires manual workarounds like pre-processing images via PowerShell. The enhancement would: Intr...
4 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Improvements when changing the level of log files

We need a more practical way to change the level of log files. It would be ideal to have an interface to change the level of the logs. Our suggestion would be a new tab on the Licenses page (https://localhost:8099/web/pt-BR/license) where the us...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability to add a structured data table variable to text inputs

There are use cases where user needs to paste a structured data table i.e. on an email body and keep the format of it.
4 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Support Hot-keys to launch attended bots

Support users to use hot-keys to start attended bot's they have listed in launcher. A Default Hot-Key for each bot should be managed by administrators and users should have the ability to overwrite it locally to fit personal needs.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release