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Digital Business Automation Ideas


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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Version 8.0.x

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Support Request: OpenShift 4.20, JBoss EAP 8, Spring Boot 3.x/4.x, and OpenJDK 17/21 for BAMOE 8.0.7

BAMOE 8.0.7 currently supports the following software versions, but their end-of-support dates have already passed or are approaching:https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity-reports/report/html/softwareReqsForProduct?deliverable...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Future consideration

Rest WorkItemHandler that support OIDC

In my business process, I need to call a REST web service that is secured by OpenID Connect. So I need to get a token from the autorization server first, then include the token in the header of the call to my webservice. We need a REST workItemHan...
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Future consideration

Automatically requeue jobs that are "hung" in status RUNNING, QUEUED or RETRYING

Refer to this case : https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500gJ0000041QiyQAE/running-jobs-remain-in-state-ruuning-forever-after-a-network-issue?language=en_US I am running process instance in BAMOE 8.0.5. My process include a REST call in an aync ...
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Needs more information

Support of Mysql 8.4

The banking sector client has contacted us, stating that MySQL 8.0.22 will reach EOL by September 2025, and they wish to upgrade to MySQL 8.4, including PAM.
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Planned for future release

Add Support for Amazon Aurora Standard DB and I/O-Optimized Database Configuration in BAMOE 8 and 9.x+

Currently, BAMOE 8.0.5 and above versions do not support Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized database configurations and they are not in the requirement from BAMOE, as the product has not been formally tested with Aurora Standard or I/O-Optimized setups. ...
6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Future consideration

Unit testing: being able to access logs that are logged with System.out.println()

Unit testing: being able to access logs that are logged with System.out.println() This would enable us to confirm a value in a field.
6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Future consideration

Unit testing: being able to see expected values in unit tests

Unit testing: being able to see expected values in unit tests (e.g. expected 5, got 7) instead of guessing the expected value and being told true/false. This would enable us to confirm a value in a field.
6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Future consideration

Is there a smarter / different way we can accomplish profile variables in Decision Central?

We create profile variables to capture dynamic and changing values, trying to find is there a smarter / different way we can accomplish profile variables in Decision Central?. More details will be provided once we have a case engineer assigned
6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

At least once a day users will have to restart redhat because it just gets stuck spinning on something.

At least once a day users will have to restart redhat because it just gets stuck spinning on something. Please investigate in the back end to find the root cause as we are unable to write rules
6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

Master branch: The master branch is editable. Would be good if this was not the case.

Master branch: The master branch is editable. Would be good if this was not the case as we accidentally push to master branch.This could cause unexpected issues as the code is pushed into master branch which should only be done by pull request
6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration