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 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.
2 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Submitted

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...
3 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Start Browser in Selenium's Stealth Mode

As it is today, IBM RPA's Start Browser command doesn't have the option to start the browser in Selenium's Stealth Mode. The idea is to create a flag to enable this.
22 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Submitted

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.
7 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

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 ...
2 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

Add the option 'Right Click' to command Click on Web Page

It would be useful to add this enhancment to the command to avoid unnecessary workrounds ( get coordinates of element via window indentifications, attaching window and use mouse command ). This workround also proved more times ineffective or was n...
6 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

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...
16 days 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...
24 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Exception Handling for the Scripts

My idea is to have something close to what we have in Blueprism today, a block. A block is a rectangular region that groups together all the stages that fall completely within it. A block can contain its own Recover Stage, which will handle except...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Planned for future release

Enhance general product ecosystem - extensibility

An AA metabots-like approach would provide more flexibility and extensibility to the product.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Planned for future release

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