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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 with Automation Anywhere

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Bot should do mathematical calculation or not in the Variable Operation component.

When we are using variable operation to assign one variable to other variable when the value of the first variable is a contract number having sign '-' then the Bot is deducting the value. For example, the value is 103-746. The value of the new va...
almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Is a defect

Subtask failure not indicated

Tracking Sub task failure from Parent task not possible.
almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Not under consideration

Data import to DB

Want to be able to import CSV data file into a DB (e.g. MS SQL) to refresh tables directly via AA. Had to develop stored procedure to do this.
almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Not under consideration

Control is passed to Excel and if there's any error bot will

VBA macro -- Control is passed to Excel and if there's any error bot will hang.
almost 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Not under consideration

We need the support "Integrating with IBM BAW by implementing a robot task" on Japanese environment.

Integration with IBM Business Automation Workflow(BAW) and Automation Anywhere Enterprise(AAE) is important function. That discriminates IBM RPA with AA and other RPA tools include original AAE. "Implementing a robot task for a basic setup" functi...
over 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Functionality already exists

I would like to have the AA Player automatically shut down whatever happens.

The AA Player stops responding (hangs) when the process being interrupted while the schedule is running stops responding (for example, when the IE stops responding). And since it does not recognize it as an error, it can not handle exception by er...
over 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Not under consideration

Request support for dynamic port connection to SQL Server

In discussion between our integrator BP3 and Automation Anywhere it was determined that AA RPA Control Room requires a static port to connect to SQL Server. Our company's policy does NOT allow static ports for SQL and the DBA manager is rejecting ...
over 5 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 1 Future consideration

Client unable to log in when a session already exists from a different host

Need a method to disconnect a client from the control room without having to reboot the Client/Control Room servers or restart services. Ideally this would be something the user could do from the client without the need for administrative help.
almost 6 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 0 Functionality already exists

Right and Left Control Key in IBM RPA

In order for robot to automate host emulator sessions (Pcomm, HOD, and other emulator products), the Right and Left Control Keys should be handled separately.Since IBM RPA does not distinguish Right and Left Control keys, the emulator session coul...
over 6 years ago in Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere 2 Not under consideration