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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).


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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:

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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,

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  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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Please include folder manipulation in the FTP commands

It is currently not possible to create or delete folders with the IBM RPA FTP commands and this is something very basic that other tools like Automation Anywhere v11 have. When we are working with a file server, the need to manipulate folders is e...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

"Wait Download" command could download the filename instead of generating a random name

The "Wait Download" command could use the downloaded filename instead of a random name when the parameter is empty. Currently the system behavior is to generate a random name which can cause confusion when looking for the file in the folders, spe...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

OCR enhancements for RPA

Requesting enhancements for Optical Character Recognition within Robotic Process Automation. Specifically OCR Mode Update, for selection accuracy, and OCR handwriting recognition, for reading handwritten text from documents.
9 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Log the query that was performed by the bot in any SQL command error

We build queries in ibm rpa by concatenating ibm rpa variables with pre-build int queries. Sometimes those variables may have incorrect values, and the query will fail. The problem is, IBM RPA will not log query in most cases, and when it does, it...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Chatbot data source for Dashboard

The Dashboard feature of IBM RPA does not have a dedicate data source for chatbots. Creating dashboards for chatbots that use guided user interaction (i.e. limited options for the user) is simple enough, just using counters is enough. For chatbots...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Comando para converter XML para tabela

Assim como temos um comando para converter JSON para tabela, necessitamos de um comando para converter XML para tabela. Temos uma alta demanda para esse comando pois utilizamos muito o XML. Translated : Just as we have a command to convert JSON to...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow one script to be downloaded by user in the Tenant

Currently, User can download all scripts in the Tenant, but not one individually. Is necessary to allow one selected script to be downloaded. For example, on the Scripts->Details screen, in the options list (3 dots), add "Download"
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Jobs Page - Check bots that are running or pending

I want to request the following enhancements for the Jobs page: The Jobs page should filter and display both running and pending bots (if there are any at this state at the moment) , regardless of the specific script associated with them. This wil...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

Support for headers configuration for the new Bots API callback URL

The new IBM RPA Bots API callback URL does not support any normal security arrangements. It's common practice to have some basic security (API Token, Basic Authentication, Bearer Token) on the API endpoints that we would normally use as callback U...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Improving Bot Project Scheduling with Custom Intervals

To enhance the flexibility of scheduling bots, I suggest adding an option to use custom intervals directly (similar to the old scheduling system). This feature would allow users to specify an interval (e.g., 36 minutes) for bot executions without ...
5 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration