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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 delete computers, processes from Control Center

Users need the ability to "fully" manage artifacts that they create in the Portal (Web Client), such as computers and process.
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Delivered

Add possibility to other dates to schedule robots

Add option to choose a specific date to schedule a robot, like monthly, or quarter (e.g. 2021/05/25). Today we only can schedule a robot per the weekdays.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Delivered

Ability to launch Bots ad-hoc via Control Center

The ability to click a button to immediately schedule a bot for launch from the Control Center. This is like for like capability that AA has
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Have a public API to queue in the first queue of the process

When I use Process Orchestration, with systemic queue, I need to insert a message in the first queue, to start the execution. But I can only insert via bot, so I can't make another system(BAW) start my Process, inserting an item in the queue.So I ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Enable choosing production version on scheduler instead of always using the same version

When creating a new scheduler, we need to pick a version of the script. When this script is updated, there is no way to change the version of the script used by the scheduler. It would help a lot if we could pick a version or the production versio...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

IBM RPA - GetTable method for Chromium Desktop Application #EMEA #SPGI

We are trying to carry out with IBM RPA Studio is to capture the data of several tables present in this chromium desktop application using the "Get Table" command. In order to do that we have worked with the recorder tool so we explore the differe...
12 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Control room password not Compliant with Clients requirements #cpfield

in WDG the control room password is limited to 6 characters.. Most clients ( including IBM ) consider a 6 chars password not secure enough as the control room oversees the bots who have passwords from coporate systems to execure their tasks
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Access to Shared Mail Folders

The command Apply Search Folder should include functionality to work with shared mail folders. For now, there's only an option to access public folders. For Example, if I count the emails after using the apply Search Filter command to search th...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Connect to Terminal 3270 with TLS Protocol

Currently, the "Connect to Terminal" command does not accept any security protocol during the connection. It was informed by IBM Support that this feature never existed, but now a customer using Terminals with TLS protocol has been found. So if th...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Compatibility mode on MS Edge for IE11 for IBM RPA

Microsoft announced Microsoft IE 11 EOS in June 15th, 2022. However, they provide Edge IE compatibility mode as alternative solution for IE11 customers. Some of the Brazilian .gov websites only support its access through IE11, and due to that, it ...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered