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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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Ability to migrate Parameters from one Tenant to another

When you're using two or more Tenants as a pipeline (i.e. One Tenant for Development, another for Production, etc), it's hard to migrate some objects from one Tenant to another, like Scripts, Parameters, etc. The idea is to have some feature to be...
3 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

SFTP commands to improve UI fields terminology

Address the following terms in the product to make it clearer for the user: File Name -> Local file path Host Server Path -> Host Server Address Remote Path -> FTP Server Path Example of commands involved: Upload file to FTP server: https...
17 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Capability of adding trusted origin URLs (CORS) through the UI

The idea is to allow an user to add trusted origin URLs in case web-based applications want to consume IBM RPA API. Adding a section on the UI to add these URLs would make it easier for users to configure the feature.
22 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Under review

Command "Bulk insert with SQL" does not work using the same collumn more than once

When using the command "bulk insert with SQL" if the user uses the same column from the data table variable to populate two database columns it just inserts one of them and keeps the other one empty. This is not supported by the command today and ...
28 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

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 1 month ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

Command that returns the subfolders within an indicated folder

In the email, sometimes new subfolders appear or some are removed. So I needed something dynamic, a command that I would pass to it the root folder or the connection and it would return the list of subfolders.
about 2 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

IBM RPA ability to cancel bot in status Waiting

Currently, there are some situations in which the cancellation of a expected bot run can be useful. A cancel button and reset for the waiting schedules can improve the user experience and provide the user with even more control of the schedules.
2 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

Add script version to AuditEvent table when published

When working with IBM Robotic Process Automation OnPremises, checking the AuditEvent table helps keeping records and organize some audit data. Specifically when it comes to publishing scripts, it's possible to see that there's a column to map the ...
3 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

Enhance the versioning control - show differences between .WAL versions

IBM RPA to provide the possibility to differentiate between script versions in the Studio application. This would allow the user to understand the difference between two script versions before the script is published, like a more robust version co...
3 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Generic command to execute all languages supported by IBM RPA

Nowadays, IBM RPA supports execution of languages like Javascript, VBScript, C#, WScript and Wal. The idea is to create a new command with Inputs and Outputs on its interface that can run any of those languages, considering: - It can run code as p...
3 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration