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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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Combo-box options could be ordered in the Control Center

In the WebClient, options from combo-box seem to be randomly ordered and it would be much better if they were ordered. This happens for script versions, for example.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Is a defect

Obter formações para fazer um levantamento geral dos processos pelo WDG se deu inicio a execução, se falhou, qual os erros de logs, se finalizou, qual o RPA que está rodando e etc.

Estou buscando informações da equipe sobre buscar aperfeiçoamento no uso da ferramenta WDG Studio para acessar o Tenant. Estamos com uma quantidade de clientes consideravelmente cheios, com isso, com o objetivo de achar uma forma dinâmica de infor...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard with error summary

It will be helpful if the dashboard has deeper details, such as for failed jobs what is the most common errors and maybe the script line number as well so it's easier for developers to debug the script later on their studio.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future 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

Visual flow representation for scripts

IBM RPA Studio needs to provide a flow-like visual representation of scripts, including the constructs scripts contain.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Button to go up in the sub hierarchy (breadcrumbs style)

When developing using multiple Subs, it is common to reuse a Sub in another and this might lead to some nested levels. Currently, going back to the previous Sub is painful, since this is what you can do: Go back to the Main of the script and try t...
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability to download KB in a command

We have the ability to upload a knowledgebase with a single command, but we don't have the ability to download a knowledgebase with a single command.
almost 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Env Var for Executing User

Add Environment Variables such as Executing User that may include the values of the logged in user who executed the attended automation OR if it's unattended it might be some source schedule info or REST API calling parameters.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Create a Value Type variable using file assignment as in Automation Anywhere

When we have multiple bots with parameters and configurations, it is very useful to have config files that contain variables and parameters that we need to update during the development or after the deployment. This helps you to have a scalable co...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Planned for future release

Add support for HTTP Reqest Delete Method with Body Payload

Currently the HTTP Request object for the DELETE method does not support the body info. The RFC for REST does not explicitly say that a body is forbidden. But the IBM DBA Rest API does require a body payloyd for some of its API for DELETE Methods ...
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration