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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

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Request for a data normalization mechanism between BAMOE 8.x InstanceView models and BAMOE 9.x Event POJOs

Some clients rely on custom implementations of ElasticSearchEventEmitter in BAMOE 8.x to synchronize process and task data (ProcessInstanceView, TaskInstanceView, TaskOperationView) directly with Elasticsearch. This approach ensures transactional ...

Enable dynamic human task creation in ad hoc process instances using Flexible Processes in BAMOE v9.x

Submitting on behalf of a customer who is migrating business projects from BAMOE v8.x to v9.x. Their solutions rely on CMMN’s ability to dynamically create human tasks during runtime. This functionality is not currently available in BAMOE v9.x Fle...

Include Azure Git as a provider for BAMOE Canvas

In my organization, we are using Azure Git, and actually this is not an available option when importing projects into BAMOE Canvas. Can you make this possible in the future?
14 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

case-sensitive database support in IBM BAMOE

Requesting case-sensitive database support for both the versions, i.e., 8.0.5 and 9.2.1. We are currently using version 8.0.5 with SQL Server, and need the database to be case sensitivity enabled.
2 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 1 Under review

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...
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Future consideration

BAMOE 9.2.0 task's lifecycle should add the "delegate" operation and the "InProgress" status

All BAMOE 8.0.X and previous versions count with a "delegate" operation that enables the use of a task from one user to another, this is, the user of an accepted task can delegate this task, so it's automatically accepted by this new user. All ...
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Future consideration

DeploymentConfig API deprecated in Openshift / Kubernetes

currently the bamoe 8.x operator manages objects (kieserver, business central, smart router) via a deploymentconfig kind.deploymentconfig is deprecated on openshift 4.14, https://access.redhat.com/articles/7041372. I suggest to fix the operator to...
10 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Planned for future release

Enable the reuse of BPMN subprocesses across projects in BAMOE 9.x.x via Maven dependencies or other non-intrusive mechanisms — without requiring signal-based Call Activities or manual duplication.

It's important for us to be able to reuse BPMN models across different business units — especially when those units don’t need to maintain or directly include all existing models in their own repositories. A common example would be a centralized a...
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Planned for future release

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...
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 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.
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Under review