Digital Business Automation Ideas


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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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Unit testing: being able to access logs that are logged with System.out.println()

Unit testing: being able to access logs that are logged with System.out.println() This would enable us to confirm a value in a field.
5 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Submitted

Unit testing: being able to see expected values in unit tests

Unit testing: being able to see expected values in unit tests (e.g. expected 5, got 7) instead of guessing the expected value and being told true/false. This would enable us to confirm a value in a field.
5 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Submitted

Is there a smarter / different way we can accomplish profile variables in Decision Central?

We create profile variables to capture dynamic and changing values, trying to find is there a smarter / different way we can accomplish profile variables in Decision Central?. More details will be provided once we have a case engineer assigned
5 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

At least once a day users will have to restart redhat because it just gets stuck spinning on something.

At least once a day users will have to restart redhat because it just gets stuck spinning on something. Please investigate in the back end to find the root cause as we are unable to write rules
5 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

Master branch: The master branch is editable. Would be good if this was not the case.

Master branch: The master branch is editable. Would be good if this was not the case as we accidentally push to master branch.This could cause unexpected issues as the code is pushed into master branch which should only be done by pull request
5 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Submitted

Unit testing is inconsistent in it's results.

Unit testing is inconsistent in it's results. Sometimes it fails multiple times, then suddenly passes when tested later with no other changes.
5 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 1 Not under consideration

Unit Testing - requiring an option to test the string joined lists (e.g. retailer id + merchant id in a list) in our unit testing

Would be good to have an ability to test the string joined lists (e.g. retailer id + merchant id in a list) in our unit testing. This will help us to reduce the time and effort required to author rules
5 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Submitted

Unit test - require an ability to import all data objects related to the rule

We need a way of being able to create a test and "import" all the fields/data objects within a specific rule. This part of the process takes about 20 minutes.Every time a rule is created it takes nearly 20 mins to populate the data fields
5 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Submitted

Unit Test does not provide details on the cause of failure

When a test fails: Right now it just says it failed. You then have to trial and error to see which field is correct and isn't by leaving blanks and retesting. So would be good to skip that and be able to say which fields were correct and which wer...
5 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Submitted

Validation check passing in rules authoring but failing in test execution

Having some issue with validate check passing in DC where a specific import is missing, i.e. import com.abc.api.product.applicant.Income. It’s passing validate check however later on our testing is throwing errors. Can we check in DC if there is a...
5 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 8.0.x 0 Submitted

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