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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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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...
almost 4 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.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 2 Future consideration

Provide full MSAA support for windows controls, or not at all

IBM RPA only provides partial MSAA support for windows control operations. MSAA addressing for windows controls & UI elements is used by some competing products.
almost 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Improve the 'JSON to Table' command in WDG Studio and other commands with this function

Today the command 'JSON to Table' only accepts JSON that is inside an object: { {...} }. When JSON starts with an array: [ {...} ]. It gives an error.
about 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Multiple Select Option for Human in the Loop Commands

As an RPA user interested in human in the loop tasks (message boxes, input pop ups), I would like the ability to have combo boxes or multiple select options
over 4 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

API Access for RPA Robot Scheduling and Execution Data Outside the Tenant

Enable API access to the scheduling and execution data of RPA robots, currently available only on internal tenant or when using the dashboard. This API would allow users to build custom, external dashboards, for example, to display on corporate mo...
9 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration

Enhancement Request: Handling SAP Menu Naming in IBM RPA

When interacting with SAP through IBM RPA, selecting the "Anlegen..." option opens a subsequent menu with a different name. This behavior doesn't align with our standard, where subsequent levels should retain the name of the triggering option. So ...
11 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhanced Handling of Custom Toolbar Buttons in IBM RPA for SAP

IBM RPA’s current method of interacting with SAP toolbar buttons using toolbar IDs (e.g., Toolbar(0)) causes issues with custom buttons, such as freezing the SAP application when interacting with the second custom button. This is not a defect but ...
11 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Support for PFX Certificates in the HTTP Request Command

Currently, the HTTP Request command in IBM RPA does not support sending certificates, which prevents secure communication via mTLS. To address this limitation, we propose adding a feature that allows attaching PFX certificates directly in the HTTP...
11 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Exception Handling Enhancements

We propose the following key enhancements to the platform's exception handling capabilities. Command-Level Exception Handling Built-in Retry Options: Add built-in options within individual commands to retry operations in case of exceptions, with c...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration