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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

Support SSH keys for signed Git commits in BAMOE Canvas

BAMOE Canvas currently allows users to work with GitHub repositories, but it does not provide a way to configure an SSH key for signing commits. This creates a limitation for organizations that enforce repository rules requiring all commits to be ...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Future consideration

Swimlane selectable color option

With the option to select a color for each individual swimlane everyone can easily see who does what at first sight. This would improve the readability of the BPNM diagram. A good start would be to have a few predefined colors in the canvas and th...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Future consideration

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/ )
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 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...
11 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x Future consideration

Add Ability to Open Active Subprocess in SVG API

BAMOE 8.0.5 and older versions - When a root process is instantiated that contains re-usable sub-process, and when the re-usable subprocess is active, the + icon on subprocess becomes clickable. When clicked, it launches another rest endpoint with...
about 2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Future consideration

Update BAMOE 8.x.x to use EAP 8.x.x

The goal is to update IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions (BAMOE) version 8.x.x to be compatible with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) version 8.x.x. Known issues in timer management: Issues have been identified in timer manag...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition Future consideration

Support JDK 17 with BAMOE 8

Please find the business rationale for “BAM OE v.8.x support for JDK 17 request” as follows. Introduction: We have several critical applications running on IBM BAMOE v8.x. Unfortunately, IBM BAMOE v8 only officially supports OpenJDK versions 8 and...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x Future consideration

Case insensitive query on GraphQL

We need a way to make the comparison lowercase or uppercase when querying with graphql (additional optional parameters) For example, customer would like conditions to process Name to be the same results when doing with either {"like": "Hi*"} {"lik...
2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Future consideration

Add support for Tomcat 10.x for BAMOE 8.0.x

Currently, BAMOE 8.0.x supports Apache Tomcat 9.0.x but not 10.x. Adding support for 10.x would be helpful.
12 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x Future consideration