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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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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...
9 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Future consideration

Improve JobService public Java API: allow query jobs by status, process id and process instance id

Santander has integrated BAMOE implementing custom REST endpoints instead of the ones the product provides. They're using public Java API for implementing process management capabilities, and now they're missing some methods in the JobService Java...
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Needs more information

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...
10 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x 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?
3 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 2 Planned for future release

Add Spring Boot 3 as a supported runtime for business services

We would like to use spring boot 3 as the runtime for the process and decision services.

Audit function for Workflow Status Change

When using API to interact with workflow in kie server, there is no out-of-box function on recording the change time/user who did the change e.t.c. Can we add these functions? (One way to achieve it is to enlarge the AUDITTASKIMPL table to include...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Future consideration

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...
5 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...
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Future consideration

BAMOE Canvas application integration with Azure DevOps repositories.

Currently BAMOE 9 mentions GIT support only for GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Cloud. Adding Azure DevOps repositories as the provider option will provide customers with additional option and flexibility.
over 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 0 Future consideration