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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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  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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Implement a way of automatically copying/moving files in bulk from one RPA environment to another

At the moment , there's not a supported way of automatically copying/moving files in bulk from one environment to another. This can be helpful to make tests before migrating environments.
4 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Implement a way of automatically copying/moving files in bulk from one RPA environment to another

At the moment , there's not a supported way of automatically copying/moving files in bulk from one environment to another. This can be helpful to make tests before migrating environments.
4 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Add the option 'Right Click' to command Click on Web Page

It would be useful to add this enhancment to the command to avoid unnecessary workrounds ( get coordinates of element via window indentifications, attaching window and use mouse command ). This workround also proved more times ineffective or was n...
3 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Under review

Enable "Attach to Schedule" for Bot Project Schedules

Currently, the "Attach to Schedule" feature only works with legacy script schedules and cannot connect to schedules created in Bot Projects. This forces users to manually use "Attach to Runtime" after bots start running, making debugging less effi...
8 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Reserve capacity for specefic projects

Implementing capacity reservation for specific projects in RPA would offer improved resource allocation, improved scalability. This could also help organization optimize their RPA deplyments.
22 days ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted

Exception Handling for the Scripts

My idea is to have something close to what we have in Blueprism today, a block. A block is a rectangular region that groups together all the stages that fall completely within it. A block can contain its own Recover Stage, which will handle except...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Planned for future release

Improved Expired Certificate Handling for IBM RPA

When the IBM RPA certificate expires, the license will be deactivated with the message "Invalid Certificate". Note that this is different from license expiration, it's the certificate. After some research, we discovered that the certificate has a ...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Not under consideration

Improvement of command 'Create from Data Table'

Currently, command Create from Data Table does not save Datatable columns with their format ( number as number, date as date ) but as the excel where it is saved is formatted. A switch option to keep format of Data table would be very beneficial. ...
about 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 3 Not under consideration

Enhance general product ecosystem - extensibility

An AA metabots-like approach would provide more flexibility and extensibility to the product.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Planned for future release

API endpoint to list executed bots

IBM RPA uses API endpoints to call Bots outside of Control Center context, like an external application. Customer suggested having an API endpoint to check for the history of bot executions to understand whether an instance has been executed or no...
about 2 months ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Submitted