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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).


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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,

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

Ability to organise BC queries in folder

Currently queries are organised in BC in a flat structure. Without any level of hierarchies, it is cumbersome to search the queries especially when the number of queries exceed a few hundreds. Queries are also essential to defining decision operat...
7 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

New API for Overriding Deployment Queries

This is a request to provide a new API for generating and deploying a decision service that provides the ability to pass the text of the query to use in the validator. IlrArchiveOutput deployDSRuleAppArchive(IlrDeployment deployment, java.util.Co...
27 days ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Under review

EC to BC migration: Business rule version history no longer shows the "Used In"

When you look at a rule history in the Enterprise Console, you get a column "Used In" It shows for each version which branches / baseline uses this version of the rule. However, this information is missing in the Business Console. Not available in...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 8 Future consideration

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...
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Planned for future release

Fix Column sequence mismatch issue in Decision Runner generated spreadsheet report

We have introduced multi-column in the scenario sheet to handle input JSON request of size > 32K characters. 32K is the cell size limitation.But the columns in Decision Runner generated report spreadsheet get jumbled up. The column sequence is ...
2 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 2 Is a defect

provide some kind of encapsulation option (private, public) for ODM project variables

Context : Rule Designer, rule authoring, variable definition To provide a better user experience for business users, and avoid confusion in variable completion.It would be good to provide an encapsulation concept for projects variables : ex privat...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

BC - Business rule documentation to include hyperlinks for URLs

Our business users frequently make references to external documentations to support the business case of the rule. They use the documentation field on the business rule to record these external references as URL. When exploring these business rule...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Future consideration

Add an option for Decision table to execute only first instead of all matching rows

It involves quite some work and sometimes cause confusion (as it depends on the execution mode of the rule task) to implement the requirement to execute first matched row in a Decision Table.It will greately simplify the rule writing if there is a...
4 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

Missing schema definition for Decision Table ('definition' property) parsing in the DC REST API output

We have a solution requirement to extract certain "content" (names and address) used the business rules to feed the downstream stream systems. These business rules are authored by business users. We use the DC REST API's to retrieve the rule defin...
9 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 0 Future consideration