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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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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,

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  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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Automation Decision Services (ADS)

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Some super-user of ADS should have admin rights on all decision projects

Without that super-user authorization, there is no way to truly administer ADS projects. There could be numerous erroneous projects that need to be cleaned up. There could also be situations where an owner/creator of a project leaves - In that sit...
about 1 month ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Under review

Non-admin users need to be able to see who is authorized (and how) for a decision project.

When trying to open the collaborators page of a ADS project, get an error: "User is not authorized to perform this action on this decision automation,..." It seems to me that we might be getting the error because we are not admins on the decision ...
about 1 month ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Under review

Add ODM support for HashiCorp Vault Secrets Operator in OpenShift Dedicated

Enhance ODM to be able to use the HashiCorp Vault Secrets operator to store secrets and config maps.
3 months ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Include the full Decision Service Payload in events that are published from ADS to BAI

Include the full Decision Service Payload in events that are published from ADS to BAI. It would be useful to see the full input and output payload in BAI (for debugging and monitoring).
7 months ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Add Support for TreeModel PMML Models created in SPSS Modeller into ADS

Currently ADS only supports the import of PMML Model ScoreCard and RuleSet definitions. SPSS Modeller in Cloud Pak for Data often creates TreeModel PMML definition files that contain decision table logic that could be mapped to an ADS decision tab...
7 months ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Add String Manipulation Methods to Business Action Language

Currently there are no basic string manipulation methods in the Business Action Language in IBM Automation Decision Services (ADS). This leads to the need to implement basic string manipulation methods like toUppercase and toLowercase in external ...
10 months ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

in Rule Designer, create a new operation decision run/debug configuration with HTDS json file as input

In order to test easily rules, it would be possible to reuse the idea of operation decision run/configuration with HTDS json files as inputs. That would help a lot developers/users to quickly test their rules with the same type of input that the o...
10 months ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Provide a Machine Learning Provider configuration option for CP4D - Watson ML

CP4BA - ADS v22.0.2 provides the ability to integrate with a Watson ML configured / running on IBM Cloud. The authentication method for this integration relies on the API Key to retrieve a token to be able to consume a deployed service as document...
12 months ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Add a DC REST API endpoint to generate Rule documentation

In order to generate on a regular base a rule project HTML documentation with a CI tool like jenkins, provide an DC REST API to generate HTML report.Based on this existing GUI feature : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/odm/8.11.0?topic=branches-generat...
about 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Need an option to define virtual categories

We have a use case to split a ruleset into multiple rulesets to reduce the complexity and also to execute the multiple rulesets in parallel and asyc based on the requirement for the same category. We will execute the rulesets for the same checkpoi...
about 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Not under consideration