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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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Support for DB2 fo existing Client

Overview and Problem Statement Several existing BAMOE v8 customers currently use distributed DB2 as their backend database. They lack the tools, expertise, or operational flexibility to manage alternative database platforms such as PostgreSQL/Orac...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

MCP Server Does Not Reflect <bpmn2:documentation> Content in Generated Tool Descriptions (BAMOE 9.3.0-ibm-0007)

Env ===== BAMOE Version: 9.3.0-ibm-0007 Component: MCP Server Framework Quarkus Exposed API MCP Tools Discovery (/mcp) Data Source BPMN 2.0 Metamodel (<bpmn2:process> with <bpmn2:documentation>)Problem: ======== The MCP Server does not...

Single Sign On EOL

The IBM Business central product LDAP integration is exclusively with Red Hat SSO. We've learned from Red Hat that this product will reach its end-of-life on June 30th We need to see if there are any other solutions like Azure Entra ID is availabl...
6 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Future consideration

JBoss EAP 8 support for BAMOE 8.0.x

As part of security vulnerability customer is planning to upgrade JBoss EAP from 7.4.14 to 8.0.2.1. They are running BAMOE 8.0.2 and request adding support for JBoss EAP 8.x in a future release.
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Not under consideration

Execute parallel nodes in real parallel

We're trying BAMOE 9.2; one of the use cases that we have is for microservices orchestration and saga patterns; to achieve that it's very important the performance. One of the cases that our clients are demanding us is to execute steps in parallel...
7 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Under review

Rest WorkItemHandler that support OIDC

In my business process, I need to call a REST web service that is secured by OpenID Connect. So I need to get a token from the autorization server first, then include the token in the header of the call to my webservice. We need a REST workItemHan...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Future consideration

[REST] Enable Customization of Auto-Generated REST Endpoints

Epic Description:Currently, REST endpoints are automatically generated, but there is a limitation in customizing the generated code. Specifically, users are unable to add custom logic such as headers to the REST interface. This epic aims to addres...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

Support of Mysql 8.4

The banking sector client has contacted us, stating that MySQL 8.0.22 will reach EOL by September 2025, and they wish to upgrade to MySQL 8.4, including PAM.
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Planned for future release

Support to export detailed PDF documentation for any DMN

Some people who do not come from tech background may find DMN 1.5 little bit technical. We need a way to export/share the DMN (including decision tables) in the form of PDF document. Something, that was present in the previous classic editors (aut...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 0 Planned for future release

Support full Kafka protocol for event - key and header support missing

Our BAMOE 8.0.5 deployment on OpenShift is integrated with an external Kafka cluster. In the processes that are running in our BAMOE instance, tasks shall be used to send and receive Kafka messages, containing a message value and a specific messag...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 2 Planned for future release