Digital Business Automation Ideas


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.

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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


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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    ODM SMF 120 subtype 100 - set SMF120FLG bit 1 (SMFHDR_FLG) indicate subtype value for 100

    We request that the WAS ODM SMF 120 subtype 100 data-recording be amended to include the IBM-standard SMF main-header bit-1 setting to denote that "subtype is valid". Consider that the WAS SMF 120 subtype 9 record applies to this standard.The IBM ...
    over 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

    ODM TEST SUITE VALUES SOURCING FROM DYNAMIC DOMAINS ARE IDENTIFIER VALUES and NOT VERBALIZATION

    Values that are sourced from a dynamic domain in the test suite are displayed in the form of dropdown . The display text is not the verbalization of the identifiers. But the display text is the name of the identifier itself. The business users fin...
    over 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

    In the rule designer, make default verbalizations for List and Map handling methods

    We would like to have default verbalizations for the java.util.List interface the following methods : get, set, add, addall, containsAll, remove, removeAll, retainAll.For the java.util.Map interface : put, keySet, entrySet (and more if possible)
    about 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

    Improve Error Messages for Overlaps

    For overlaps in decision tables, currently the error message only states "Line X overlaps with line(s) Y". This is a problem if the problematic cell contains a huge set of numbers. In the attached screenshot, the number 2329 appears in two differe...
    about 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

    Decision Center Rest API DELETE methods

    I would like at least one of the following methods to be added to the Decision Center rest api: UPDATE /v1/decisionservices/{decisionServiceId}/import DELETE /v1/decisionservices/{decisionServiceId}/import
    over 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Planned for future release

    Stop deployment in Decision Center

    When deployments should be stopped, for various reasons, there is no obvious way to stop a deployment.
    over 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

    Consistency for DT row comments

    Comments on rows in DTs are available in Rule Designer but not shown in DC consoles. This comes as a surprise to most users who start commenting their tables in RD. Feature should be made consistent across UIs by either deprecating from RD or addi...
    over 8 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Planned for future release

    Provide a log file showing all the artifacts being deployed

    When deploying a Decision Service from the Business Console, and taking a Deployment Snapshot, the deployment snapshot will contains all rules / artifacts in the project being deployed. Including for instance rejected rules that are available in t...
    about 9 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

    HTDS Role-based access control management for decision services

    We need to have HTDS services in RES console should have a provision to map roles and we should be able to secure them based on individual Decision Service and its consumers. Today, we manually map the roles and update HTDS EAR for redeployment. T...
    about 9 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Functionality already exists

    Option to indicate inline or not inline variable output for decision service

    New feature/option to allow a developer to indicate whether variable output for a decision service should be inline or not inline. The option would allow the output to include the original wrapper object.
    3 months ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

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