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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

Native High Availability and State Synchronization for Business Central Controllers

Business Central provides essential administrative capabilities for managing KIE Servers, including container deployment, configuration, and lifecycle management. However, in managed environments, KIE Servers depend on controller availability duri...
13 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

Provide the BAMOE 8.x Classic BPMN Editor as an independent VS Code extension with its own lifecycle

We request that the Classic BPMN Editor required to maintain BAMOE 8.x / jBPM-compatible BPMN assets be provided and maintained as an independent VS Code extension, with a lifecycle separate from the BAMOE 9.x Developer Tools and New BPMN Editor. ...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Planned for future release

Allow Passing a payload when exiting/withdrawing a User Task (WS-Human Task Lifecycle)

We are using the WS-Human Task Lifecycle. When withdrawing a User Task using the exit operation, we would like to pass a payload containing additional business data/map values from that payload to the task output variable. The intention is for the...
8 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x 1 Not under consideration

Automatic SVG generation in BAMOE9 during Gradle builds

In BAMOE8, the process SVG was automatically generated, which ensured that the visualization stayed in sync with the process definition. In BAMOE9, we currently have to generate or refresh the SVG manually. It would be great to restore the BAMOE8 ...
15 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.4.x 5 Functionality already exists

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...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.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...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x 0 Planned for future release

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.
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x 0 Planned for future release

Ability to specify a custom Flyway migration location for a specific KIE module

We need to replace a PostgreSQL migration distributed by the following BAMOE 9.5.2 module: org.jbpm:jbpm-addons-usertask-storage-jpa:9.5.2-ibm-0002 The module provides its KIE Flyway configuration through: META-INF/kie-flyway.properties For Postgr...
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...
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Planned for future release

slaDueDate not return on usertask instance

Unable to get slaDueDate on the task details with the User task subsysteme API Also, slaDueDate is not available from management console Can you do the necessary to make it available?
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.5.x 0 Planned for future release