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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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  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


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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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configure syntax coloration on BAL rules/Decision tables

Developpers using dark theme complain not being able to read rules. It would be nice to be able to configure the colors of bal constructs, as it is already possible to do with IRL editor
over 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 3 Future consideration

Add the equivalent of "Find rule dependencies" menu to the ruleflows

When a user mkes a right click on a rule, a menu "Find rule Dependencies" is available and enables the user to look for ruleflows which may select this rule. Would it be possible to get the same feature for the ruleflows, ie. "find ruleflows which...
over 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Query to look-up ruleflows for their definition (rule selection, flow, etc.)

Queries in ODM do not support selecting rule all artifacts that are used within a ruleflow definition (rule selection within the tasks, flow that uses variables). Also the selection of ruleflows that include in their definition a specified rule pa...
about 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Requesting Ability to Prevent File Uploads to Stream on Business Console

The "Decision Center" application allows any file type to be transferred.Under the "Stream" section of the application, users are able to add comments with attachments. There is no restriction on the type of files attached to these comments, which...
about 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

ARL view of a rule (via API)

PayPal needs real time IRL or ARL, on demand per rule id to extract the logic out of DC. This should be able to give us the latest version of the rule.
over 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Archive raw data from rules simulation execution for future analysis

When a rules simulation job is executed on RES (rules execution server), the raw data results used to calculate the metrics for the KPI report should be archived so that users can conduct further analysis beyond what the KPI report provides.
over 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Limit Export capabilities for the users

Hi, Can we have permissions for the export of Decision Tables to Excel files:1. Can export single table(s)2. Can export tables in folders and subfolders
over 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Archive ruleapps created for a rules simulation for re-use

When a ruleapp is created under the rules simulation feature, there should be an option to save the ruleapp for future use.
over 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

The user's TimeZone should be used in Business Console

The customer timezone (the client machine timezone) is being ignored in the timeline on the Business Console. So if we have a DC Server running in the US, and a client connecting from Japan or from China, when he/she creates a new artifact in the ...
over 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Console Identity in Decision Center

IBM,looking for Console Identity in Decision Center that is similar to WAS console Identity.
over 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration