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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

Webservice request using .pfx certificate

We need IBM RPA to support performing a web service request passing a pfx certificate.Both commands need to have https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rpa/21.0?topic=web-http-request and https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rpa/21.0?topic=web-soap-request.
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Several conditions in the same IF/DO/DO WHILE statement

Allow IBM RPA Studio to add several conditions joint with AND or OR in the same IF/DO/DO WHILE statement.
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 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.
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Submitted

Log the query that was performed by the bot in any SQL command error

We build queries in ibm rpa by concatenating ibm rpa variables with pre-build int queries. Sometimes those variables may have incorrect values, and the query will fail. The problem is, IBM RPA will not log query in most cases, and when it does, it...
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Robotic Framework

I developed, at the bank where I work, an internal framework aimed at more experienced developers, focused on building complex and enterprise-grade processes, with the goal of increasing productivity, standardization, and robustness. The framework...
7 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Comando para converter XML para tabela

Assim como temos um comando para converter JSON para tabela, necessitamos de um comando para converter XML para tabela. Temos uma alta demanda para esse comando pois utilizamos muito o XML. Translated : Just as we have a command to convert JSON to...
almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability to purge orchestration processes from the Database

When using orchestration feature on RPA, you can get a high volume of records within the database (for some customers, over 100.000+ records) that may use unnecessary file system from the database. The idea is to create a feature to purge this dat...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Support Secure String Inputs for Remote Bot Execution via API and User Prompts

Currently, IBM RPA lacks the ability to: Accept secure strings (masked/encrypted inputs) dynamically during bot execution (e.g., via Input Box commands). Pass secure strings as parameters through API-triggered bot executions, The only way to use t...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Email listener from triggering scripts

You may need to trigger a script execution when an email is received in your inbox. The idea is create this listener for email providers so once a specific email is received, a RPA script is triggered to perform any meaningful actions based on the...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Leave browser instance open when it hits an error or stopped in debug

Currently when a browser instance hits an error it closes itself. This causes significant pain in trying to develop fast and debug any issues.
about 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration