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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:

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,

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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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Process - Clear data

After development and testing could have a button to clear all data of process, to go into production with no values
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Logoff after finishing bot execution

If I use the logoff command in the script, my execution fails because the execution doesn't expect to terminate my bot and close the user.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Not under consideration

The path for the private key of a computer should be configurable for each computer instead of being the same for every computer in the tenant.

Right now, we can configure only one path for the whole tenant. That means that every computer in the tenant needs to have the private key in the same path, even though they are different computers in different folders. Most people just pick a fol...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under 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.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

When using Oauth 1.0, a required set of parameters need to be on every request. They are: oauth_consumer_key, oauth_token, oauth_signature_method, oauth_timestamp, oauth_nonce and oauth_version

Tools such as postman, allow the user to populate only the consumer oauth_consumer_key, oauth_token, auth_signature_method, and the tool itself generate all other params (as they are timestamps or random) In IBM RPA, we need not only to create eac...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Human-in-the-loop Command improvement

Functionality that would be helpful is if our human in the loop commands had these additional functionality. Multiple Select Options - Have the ability to have customizable Buttons and dropdowns by feeding in a list Allow for message box command t...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Shortcut to delete all unused objects

To start new projects, we often start by copying another script, leaving many variables, routines or assets without any reference in the development, also because sometimes we forget to delete it, anyway. Given this, it would be very productive...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Leave browser instance open when it hits an error or stopped in debug

Currently when a browser instance hits an error it closes itself. This causes significant pain in trying to develop fast and debug any issues.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Streamline Key Creation via Wizard

A nice to have feature would be to embed some functionality to generate public and private certs into the tenant configuration tab of the web portal. This would allow an administrator to download a public and private key. It would NOT replace the ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow use of Windows Auth for managing On-Prem database.

Right now only SQL auth is supported for managing and installing on prem database. Due to security concerns, using SQL auth is not always supported within enterprises.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration