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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.


Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 2, 2021

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.

Idea priority Medium
  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Dec 15, 2022

    Following the Project and Bot concepts introduced in 23.0.0 release, we plan to build access control against Projects and improve the experience of how users use projects and jump between projects they have access.

5 MERGED

Restrict access to resources in the tenant

Merged
We need to be able to restrict access to the resources of a part of the users in the tenant. Example: The finance team should have only access to scripts/credentials that belong to Finance bots. The developer should have access only to developer c...
over 1 year ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration
9 MERGED

IBM RPA Tool - Create folders and subfolders to separate Scripts in the IBM RPA Portal

Merged
The Web Client Repository it's poorly organized, we need more folders and functions to have good management of the Tenant.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration
6 MERGED

Implement better tenant management capabilities

Merged
No description provided
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration
3 MERGED

Create a scope (general or specific to a project) for tenant parameters/scripts/credentials/computers/queues

Merged
The way to manage tenant items can be improved, for example by projects: * So that it is possible to export/import project builds from one tenant to another * This would allow you to limit the view of tenant resources to only items from a specific...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration
1 MERGED

Need for Role based access control on group environment

Merged
The suggestion with this idea is to create multiple group environment with role based access control on groups of users. Here, the permissions can be defined at a group level giving more flexibility and impose restricted or unrestricted access on ...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration
5 MERGED

Resources by teams in Tenant

Merged
There is no way to restrict specific resources to teams, such as X scripts that can be accessed by the finance team and Y scripts that can only be accessed by the management team. At this time, access is All or Nothing (credentials, scripts, comp...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Delivered