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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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Extend BAL

In the BAL there are constructs for ‘there is at least one (object)' and ‘there is no (object)'. We quite often need the construct ‘every (object)' to check whether some conditions apply to every object in a set of objects. We now mostly use the c...
almost 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

The rule extend model should support more type

One customer needs to add more info for the rules,and use customized rule property.One requirement is need to support long text like area support ,but default is only text type.Another I know it support hierarchy type,but it not support mutiple se...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Need an API to merge a single element directly from one branch to another without loading differences

Today to merge object from main to release branch, first we retrieve merge operations and then invoke apply merge for the required differences. In this approach, getting merge operations is expensive. We want a single API where we can pass the ele...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

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

It would be important to have an option in ODM Business Console, possibly at the Decision Service level, to prevent saving a Decision Table with errors.

If there are multiple users for 1 rule project and has different tables, it is hard to track which user made a change that contains an error. This happens when someone is doing a deployment and it is failing because of some changes that were saved...
over 2 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 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Simpler ODM DC REST API to create DC schema

the possibilities of enhancing the 'decisioncenter-api' app to consider the default model extensions and messages file while running '/v1/DBAdmin/execute' endpoint to create the DC schema. We don't need to run the '/v1/DBAdmin/uploadextensionmodel...
almost 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 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)
almost 6 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...
almost 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Customize report from decision center

plz give an option for users to choose which fields are displayed in the out of the box report that you get from the business console. For ex: (see attached)its printing name on the report.
about 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration