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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


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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Enhance user roles of Decision Center so that separate different business departments with settings

Please add department user management roles of Decision Center which only can give authorization for users within only own department.The rules of each department is confidential information for them and they would not like to show it to users of ...
almost 8 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance error messages for debugging

Enhance error messages to contain actual rule that was fired that caused error (Decision table name and row/column if possible). Debugging errors that occur during rule execution is difficult and time consuming. Messages returned from execution an...
over 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

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 ...
almost 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Download PDF report

It would be good to have the option to download/print the reports as PDF or some other format, as this is currently not possible (not all scenarios are shown in the print through the browser, scenarios are not expanded to show all tests...).
over 8 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

there are duplicated verbalization in the same BOM class, only warning message

In case there are duplicated verbalization in the same BOM class, only warning message is reported when the duplicated phrase is used in an action phrase. It is difficult to locate the duplicated verbalization as warning messages tend to be ignore...
over 8 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Improve Searchability in ADS

Here are two scenarios where searchability can be improved: The intent is to identify the list of associated rules and across Decision Services for a provided list of data fields. Also we have a need to highlight the audit trail of the rule approv...
about 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Planned for future release

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).
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

list of literal Integers

In BAL, we would like to be able to provide a list of literal Integers in the actionpart. At the moment, a literal number in a list is automatically transformed to a Double in the actionpart of the rule, which seems strange when there are no decim...
about 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Limit reconciliation processing in ICP4BA operator pod

The operator pod runs a constantly active reconciliation loop which checks the settings of the Custom Resource against the configuration of the Kubernetes/OpenShift items created by the CR settings. For ODM and other components, this loop is usefu...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Not under consideration