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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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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.

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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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DE AutoException Handler:Continue Rule Execution on Next Statement When Exception Raised on Set Statements(Rule Definition)

When there is an exception raised from set statement written on definition section of the rule, if the DE auto exception handler is used, then the exception should be handled and a null value should be assigned to the variable and then the rule ex...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

An option to avoid categories being inherited from dependent projects

When we add dependencies to a rule project, we may add another rule project as a dependency and we need an option to restrict categories list being inherited from the dependencies.
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Create a unique id (rule id) for each rule when it is created and support search, query functionalities on that

Create a unique id (rule id) for each rule when it is created and support search, query functionalities on the rule id.
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Expose only intersection list of BOM variables when multiple categories are chosen for a rule

Expose only intersection list of BOM variables for the rule writing when multiple categories are chosen for a rule
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

DE: Implement auto exception handler to handle rule action exceptions

Decision Engine, today provides an auto exception handler that handles the condition exceptions and continues the rule execution with the next condition, but it doesn't support action exceptions. We want auto exception handler support for action e...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Option to define the rule priority order in Decision Engine

In ODM, the rule priority property is understood in such a way that higher value means higher priority. But in PayPal, our requirement is just the opposite, lower the value, higher the priority. We have customization to flip the priority value. So...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Rule Designer and eGIT Integration

We would like IBM to investigate the integration of Eclipse eGIT plugin with the Rule Designer for ODM. https://www.eclipse.org/egit/ This would allow ODM Developers to utilize the eGIT tooling within Eclipse to connect to external source code rep...
over 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under 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

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