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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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Business Automation Manager Open Edition

Starts a new process instance from the specific nodes

In bamoe 8.x we have an API to start a process instance from specific node, this feature is not available in BAMOE 9.x Can you provide such feature in 9.x, we currently have applications that rely on that feature.
9 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x 0 Planned for future release

Spring Boot 4.1 Support in IBM BAMOE

Our organization is aligning with the enterprise technology modernization roadmap, which mandates adoption of the latest supported Spring ecosystem versions for security, supportability, and long-term maintenance. Currently, IBM BAMOE 9.5 supports...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x 0 Planned for future release

Implement new optional parameter to customize the schema name for BAMOE data cleanup tool

Currently, by design, BAMOE data cleanup tool requires the JDBC URL and User name to establish connection to data-audit,data-index database tables and the database activity is run under the schema of the connected user. This is not flexible, as Da...
10 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.4.x 0 Planned for future release

Allow users of persistence addons for Kogito to specify the schema used

Right now the JDBC code in the persistence addons has SQL statements that do not specify the schema. Suppose you have multiple projects that use persistence, and use the IBM proposed setup of having one database with different schema for each proj...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x 0 Planned for future release

Workflow layout Formatting.

Before BAMOE V9.X, we used Business Central feature of RHPAM to design the workflows. Now when we try to import the BPMN2 files that were developed using RHPAM into VSCode with BAMOE V9.X extenstion, the layout of the workflows is not being in the...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Planned for future release

Enable GraphQL query on process vaiables

Need to query workflo data with GraphQL and specifiy criteria on process variable. Actually process variables are not queryable. Let say I have a Type candidate with fields : name, age, salary Than I have a process variable of type candidate Then ...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x 0 Planned for future release

Add OpenTelemetry support to runtimes

Please, add OpenTelemetry support to runtimes. OpenTelemetry is vendor neutral, industry-standard method of providing observability ( https://opentelemetry.io/docs/ )
8 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 1 Future consideration

Add Suspend with SuspendUntil functionality for human tasks in BAMOE 9.2.x

We request the reintroduction of the suspend (with suspendUntil parameter) capability for human tasks in BAMOE 9.x. This feature, available in previous versions (e.g., RHPAM 7.x / BAMOE 8.x), allowed suspending a human task via API until a specifi...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Future consideration

Option to abort running LogCleanupCommand

We need the LogCleanupCommand to be able to be aborted quickly when it is running. The LogCleanupCommand is scheduled daily to run at 9 pm local time, but if it is still running at 7 am, it needs to be stopped so as not to impair the overall perfo...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Is a defect

Support automatic Process SVG generation during Maven builds

Provide a supported way to generate BPMN Process SVG files during the Maven build, without requiring Visual Studio Code or manual steps. Currently, SVG files can only be generated through the BAMOE VS Code editor, making it difficult to automate C...
2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.4.x 0 Needs more information