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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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My ideas: Robotic Process Automation

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Order Process instances by execution time, not name

When you're working with an orchestration process, you usually want to analyze the instances by date/time of execution, not necessarily by its name. Due to that, we can change the instance list to be ordered by date/time by default, not by name.
9 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Running bots on the same VM with different user accounts

We know that In IBM RPA, we do not have the ability to run bots on the same VM with different windows user accounts because it works with console sessions of Windows and cannot have two console sessions so is their any option to make it works with...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Ablity to Store Bots in folders in Control Center

Currently, all bots that get published are stored in a root folder. In a large organization, this can be come hard to manage. If the product would allow folders to be used that would be extremely helpful.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

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.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

request to support credential override through projects like we had for schedulers

This would be helpful for Customer to simplify daily work
3 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Screen repository

Create a repository in order to save the elements retrieved by recorder with the relative image preview. When I have to automate a new use case with the same application, instead of capture a new element, I can get it from the repository and use i...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Bot attach in Chrome open by user

During the execution of the bot, the bot uses a Google Chrome session opened by the user. With that, the bot does not need to open an instance and be login, among other uses. For example, in the Process, it would be possible to reuse the chrome op...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 6 Future consideration

Show Scripts Publishing in Audit Logs

Feature request for IBM RPA team - to have creation / update / deletion of a script in audit logs. Currently logs record everything else but scripts. Thank you.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Is a defect

IBM RPA does not support HTML elements inside a 'shadow-dom'

Today the IBM RPA does not support HTML elements inside a 'shadow-dom' making click, focus, and other commands impossible to work in context within the browser. This feature is important because without the necessary support it is not possible to...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Incorporate the Vision selector to setValue so that they can automate directly from the "getVault" to a webpage without field selectors

A customer cannot directly pass a value from "getValut" to a web page that doesn't have any field selectors or element ID
7 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration