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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


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Automation Decision Services (ADS)

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Create Branches using REST API in Decision Center

The current REST API in DEcision Center does not allow the creation of branches. It would be useful to be able to manage branches using the REST API. Especially in the scenario when using external tools to synchronise Decision Center with external...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Delivered

Ability to limit the scope of the ODM Decision Centre Archival to Recycle Bin baseline only

While there appears to be no way to permanently delete the rule artefacts once they have been deleted and reside in the recycle bin, a subject of an existing RFE, a potential work around to manage the scope of the archive ant script to the recycle...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Delivered

BAI should not index all decision events in the same ElasticSearch Index

All decision events are indexed by BAI FIlnt job in the same index mixing the data of multiple business domains where decisions are used. To differentiate the data from one domain to other the columns in the index are prefixed with the ruleapp and...
almost 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Delivered

ODM should support one of the latest Oracle database versions

We are running on one of the latest ODM versions - 8.10.3 and are using Oracle 12.1.0 as back end database. There is a DB upgrade taking place in our organization from current version to 19.6.0. The applications which ODM interacts with are all se...
about 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 5 Delivered

Support ODM Rule Designer on MacOS

After upgrading to ODM 8.10.2, found out that RuleFlows and Decision Tables do not work on MacOS. So the recommended solution is to either use Decision Center or Windows VM to make changes. We would like for IBM to make the same functionality work...
about 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Delivered

Complete diff between snapshots in DC

Limitation:if a user updates an Excel file as a resource file and then updates some dynamic domains in the BOM, none of these changes are listed in the compare view between 2 snapshots (or between a snapshot and the current state) I did check with...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Delivered

DE: Support for custom methods(operators) in decision tables

We are unable to define custom methods in boot.bom to use in decision tables for DE. Extending boot.bom works only for classic engine, and IBM support clarified that boot.bom is hardcoded for DE which is different than the one used for classic eng...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Delivered

reduce "Initial Release" listed when publish a decision service from RD to DC when the DS is referenced by multiple s

There are many "Initial Release" listed when publish a decision service from RD to DC when the DS is referenced by multiple services. We can not know which "Initial Release" can make the BOM effective for all decision services.Hope to reduce compl...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Delivered

Improving viewing Decision Tables in Decision Modeler when there are large number of columns

When working on A Decision Model, when trying to work on a Decision Table with many columns or a very large column, the horizontal scroll bar does not appear, and some columns are not properly readable. When working on a Decision Service, there is...
almost 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Delivered

DE:Rule Execution Engine should provide metrics about rule evaluated/fired/disabled/exception info after execution (Java Lib)

When we run rules using the ODM API from a java application, the API should provide the metrics of what rules fired/evaluated/disabled/exception for every invocation.
almost 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Delivered

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