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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

Library support - kie-dmn-xls2dmn-cli

We have moved to latest libraries (\bamoe-9.3.1-maven-repository\bamoe-maven-repository-zip-9.3.1-ibm-0006), but "kie-dmn-xls2dmn-cli" dependency was not found which is available in central maven repo (https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.kie...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Needs more information

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...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition Is a defect

Support for MongoDB

Currently BAMOE 9 does not support non-SQL db such as Mongo DB, and wondering if we can have support for this
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Under review

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...
about 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...
10 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 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.

Need a mechanism in BAMOE to allow dynamic rule updates

Need a mechanism in BAMOE to allow dynamic rule updates so that business users can modify existing rules (e.g., add new conditions or fields) without going through the full redevelopment and redeployment lifecycle. Expecting to have this via custo...
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.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.
10 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x Future consideration

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...

[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...
11 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.1.x Future consideration