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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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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

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...
11 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...
5 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...
6 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 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...
10 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Is a defect

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...
9 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Future consideration

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?
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

[SOE] Support AWS ECS Fargate

IBM BAMOE v9 currently supports license tracking through IBM License Service (ILS), which only runs on OpenShift or Kubernetes clusters. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibamoe/9.0.x?topic=installation-overview-license-metric-tool-ilmt However, BAMOE a...
7 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.1.x 0 Future consideration

Automatically requeue jobs that are "hung" in status RUNNING, QUEUED or RETRYING

Refer to this case : https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500gJ0000041QiyQAE/running-jobs-remain-in-state-ruuning-forever-after-a-network-issue?language=en_US I am running process instance in BAMOE 8.0.5. My process include a REST call in an aync ...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Submitted