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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,

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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Using startRecording command on VM with RDP not active

We want a new feature for the "Start Recorder" command. Where the command can record a video for a script that was schedule using the Unlock Machine On, with always On enabled.For now the only way to make this command works is when the RDP connect...
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 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Get attributes of a web element

Currently, if someone wants to get the href from an anchor tag (<a>), it needs to get the raw html and use regex. It would benefit everyone to get a dictionary of all html attributes of a particular element, that way, anyone can easily inspe...
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Support for CAC (Common Access Card)/smart card authentication in RPA bots.

Looks like currently this is not supported. In most secure Govt/DoD (Dept of Defense - US) platforms, CAC authentication is required. For scenarios where we have to browse and extract content from CAC-authentication enabled websites, this feature ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Possibility to delete credentials that have a relationship with disabled schedules

At the moment, it is only possible to delete a credential if it is not related to active and non-active scheduling. I request that it is possible to delete when scheduling is disabled.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future 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...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

JDBC and DB2 Connectors

It would be nice if WDG had JDBC and DB2 connectors so that it may connect with JDBC and DB2 clients OOTB.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Add date time range filter to the process instances search

All IBM RPA users who has process created to their projects
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Better Variable Scope

As in other programming languages, variable scope would be very useful when calling subroutines. Subroutines should have in and out locally scoped variables that are set in the same way variables are set when calling executeScript
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Be able to delete and edit process's variables

We need to be able to delete and edit process variables in the orchestrator. When you create a process in the orchestrator, on this process you can and will create variables, but when you create a variable with the wrong name or wrong type, you w...
about 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration