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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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Assign variable command

The assign variable command, when selecting the input variable to be configured, allows you to select or append the variable. This should be only select.
about 2 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Is a defect

Ask for required input when bot is executed from Launcher

When a bot has inputs and is running unattended, the control center will request parameters, but when the bot is running unattended through the Launcher, there is no way to request parameters.
about 2 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

ApplySearchFilter: Add support to use Hour And Minute in the Start and End time parameter

For now, the ApplySearchFilter command does not support using the hour and minute format in the start date and end date. The command will not fail or generate any error messages, but the filter will only use the month/date/year
3 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Add "Cancel Execution" Button for Scheduled Jobs in "Projects"

Currently, users cannot cancel a scheduled robot execution directly from the "Projects" interface—this action is only available via "Workflow." This limitation creates inefficiencies when urgent intervention is needed. The enhancement proposes add...
4 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

IBM RPA Server - Support for SQL Server 2025

Some customers are upgrading their Windows Server environment to the latest version, Windows Server 2025, which is currently not supported by our solution. This limitation is blocking their deployment plans, as they cannot install the IBM RPA serv...
4 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Planned for future release

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

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

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

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...
5 months 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.
5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Submitted