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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

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...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 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 ...
9 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 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...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x Future consideration

Make BAMOE Developer Tools VS code extension open source

The new version of the IBM BAMOE Developer Tools for VS Code is a great improvement over the classic editor, but it still has several bugs, problems, and known limitations that need to be addressed. This is generally true for the classic editor as...
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Not under consideration

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

ProcessInstances and UserTaskInstances are two separate root queries, make it possible to combine them into a single unified result using GraphQL

Require a single comprehensive API (facade layer) to streamline workflow integration.
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x Functionality already exists

BAMOE Monitoring and Observability data

Hi Team, Currently BAMOE 9.2.1 doesn't provide any dashboard to view the BAMOE observability and monitoring data. It only provides a graphQL endpoints which we have to custom utilize for all the requirements. We need an interface/Dashboard for the...
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x Future consideration

Enhanced User Tasks API with Comprehensive Filtering and Pagination

Summary Request for enhancement to the existing User Tasks API to include comprehensive filtering, pagination, and ordering capabilities that are currently missing from the standard API endpoint. Current State The existing User Tasks API (https://...
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.2.x Functionality already exists

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 Planned for future release

Safari 16+ and Firefox Support in BAMOE Canvas

Overview and Problem Statement The goal of this epic is to enable full support for Safari 16+ and Firefox (macOS and RHEL) when using BAMOE Canvas, by incorporating the fixes recently introduced in upstream KIE Canvas 0.23.0.These upstream changes...
5 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Planned for future release