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).


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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:

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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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

Version 9.3.x

Support SSH keys for signed Git commits in BAMOE Canvas

BAMOE Canvas currently allows users to work with GitHub repositories, but it does not provide a way to configure an SSH key for signing commits. This creates a limitation for organizations that enforce repository rules requiring all commits to be ...
14 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Future consideration

Swimlane selectable color option

With the option to select a color for each individual swimlane everyone can easily see who does what at first sight. This would improve the readability of the BPNM diagram. A good start would be to have a few predefined colors in the canvas and th...
8 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Future consideration

Add Ability to Open Active Subprocess in SVG API

BAMOE 8.0.5 and older versions - When a root process is instantiated that contains re-usable sub-process, and when the re-usable subprocess is active, the + icon on subprocess becomes clickable. When clicked, it launches another rest endpoint with...
20 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Future consideration

Add OpenTelemetry support to runtimes

Please, add OpenTelemetry support to runtimes. OpenTelemetry is vendor neutral, industry-standard method of providing observability ( https://opentelemetry.io/docs/ )
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Future consideration

scroll/toggle issue - To pan around in the BPMN Editor’s canvas

9.3 in Canvas: scrolling issues within Canvas. Users cannot scroll right or left, this is a product issue.
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Under review

Add Columns to processes table to facilitate Migrations

Can these four specific columns be added natively to the processes table? initiator processInstanceDescription correlationKey sla_compliance Reasoning: Our current API layer relies on fetching this metadata directly from the process record. If the...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Under review

Case insensitive query on GraphQL

We need a way to make the comparison lowercase or uppercase when querying with graphql (additional optional parameters) For example, customer would like conditions to process Name to be the same results when doing with either {"like": "Hi*"} {"lik...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Future consideration

Cater for User Task Events that mutate process variables

The application I'm working on is being migrated from BAMOEv8 to BAMOEv9. It makes heavy use of process event listeners and user task event listeners that evaluate business logic and update process variables. I have found there is some tension bet...
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Not under consideration

Provide feature to mount volume from the management Console helm Chart

The management Console helm chart in BAMOE 9.3.1 does not provide featute to mount volume when deplying using the provided helm chart.
about 1 month ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Future consideration

Process Versioning in BAMOE 9.3

Considering a scenario where I have a long-running process workflow, such as "hiring," with active process instances. Then, if I create another version, "hiring1," how do I handle the client code from which I need to trigger the REST API's, consid...
4 months ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x Future consideration

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