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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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Bots invoked using the Asynchronous API without a process wrapper

For my bot scripts, I want to tick an "Expose Bot through API' check box to automatically create a process wrapper to expose the bot for the Async API. This would save me a lot of time.
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Command "Watch and Set Credentials in Browser" not working when window security name is changed

The Watch and Set Credentials in the Browser command do not work in some versions of Microsft Edge. The reason why is because Microsoft recently changed the window security name from "Window Security" to "Sign in to access this site". With this ch...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Exchange email connection not working with Office365

• Exchange email connection not working with Office365
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Installing version 21.0.2 using "custom" does not work

Installing version 21.0.2 was only successful when choosing "complete" version. Using "Custom" and removing "Launcher" resulted in an error about the service not beeing able to start in the end of setup
over 1 year 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

IBM RPA to use OAuth to authenticate with Exchange mail servers

Since Microsoft has already started disabling basic authentication in the default security policies and considering that basic authentication reaches its EOS on October 1st, IBM RPA could handle the 2FA/MFA authentication for IMAP and other email ...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

Add Oauth2 Support to Email Server Connections

Microsoft has announced that starting October 1, 2022, basic authentication will be turned off for specific protocols in Exchange Online (link). Since this change will break many email integrations, IBM RPA needs to release Oauth2.0 support for 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

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...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered

When a scheduled bot fails to run, have it create a failed job

It is not uncommon for scheduled bots to just not run. At times when it fails to run, no job will be created, and there is no indication that the scheduled job has failed since it just never ran. It could potentially be days before anyone realizes...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered