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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Please include folder manipulation in the FTP commands

It is currently not possible to create or delete folders with the IBM RPA FTP commands and this is something very basic that other tools like Automation Anywhere v11 have. When we are working with a file server, the need to manipulate folders is e...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Support for CAC (Common Access Card)/smart card authentication in RPA bots.

Looks like currently this is not supported. In most secure Govt/DoD (Dept of Defense - US) platforms, CAC authentication is required. For scenarios where we have to browse and extract content from CAC-authentication enabled websites, this feature ...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Execute different parts of the script, skipping some steps of the process

The idea would be to be able to execute different parts of the script, skipping some steps of the process without these steps being processed, that is, we can execute the beginning of the script and jump to the end of it without having to process ...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Support for writing expressions in "variable fields"

You always have to add extra activities that assigns new values to a variables when working with strings and numeric operations. It would be alot faster save som space if you could write expressions directly in the property fields of activities wh...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

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.
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability to open process execution on a new window

When checking a process execution in Web Client would be very helpful being able to select a process execution and open it details on a new window. This will help when searching among lots of executions.
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Bring back the right-click option to the Click Windows Command

This feature has been removed in the latest IBM RPA offering of 21.0.2 without a suitable replacement.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Add links to IBM RPA courses and the official documentation in IBM RPA Studio's Start Page

Add widgets with links to IBM RPA associate courses and IBM RPA's official documentation in IBM RPA Studio's Start Page to increase user visibility to courses and the documentation. The attached image shows the Start Page. Adding visibility to edu...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

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 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Apply password expiration policy in IBM RPA

A password expiration policy is very important and requested by many customers who have external auditing. One suggestion is for the user to be notified and required to change their password every 90 days.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

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