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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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  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 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 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 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 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Implement Analysis function from RTS into BC

In RTS, we had a simple and very useful function: Analyze that shows error/warning on rules. Report it to BC
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Future consideration

Authorise create a branch in DC that would reuse the existing branch of a dependent projects when creating new branch.

When DC creates a branch at the decision service level it needs to be created in every dependent project.If the branch already exists DC will prevent the creation. With the edit dependencies we manually change the local maintenance branch, referen...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Planned for future release

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 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Change Decision Center DB to Version Control System

It has been painful to synchronize the rule artifacts between the branches in the Decision Center and developer workspaces. If the developer is NOT following best practices while renaming, copying the rule artifacts, and making the changes to the ...
almost 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under 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 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

add pom version in ruleapp properties when using rule compiler

when compiling with the rule compiler, the artefact version number is taken from the pom. When the compiled ruleapp is deployed in the RES, this artefact version information is lost as a different path version management is used in the RES : /rule...
about 2 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 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Not under consideration

Enable Horizontal Pod Autoscaler support for ODM Decision Server Runtime under ICP4BA

In a Kubernetes/OpenShift deployment, the number of replicas for the Decision Server Runtime deployment is a fixed amount defined in the ICP4ACluster custom resource. The ICP4BA operator enforces this fixed amount by resetting any changes made to ...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration