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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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DE: When generic Number class is used as the type, DE always converts all the numbers to Double which is unexpected

When we use Number as the type, In CRE it converts values into Integer or Double based on the value format. If value contains decimal then it gets converted to double, otherwise converted to Integer. But in DE, it always converts the value to Doub...
about 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Is a defect

DE: Want To Debug Rules In Application Service At Run Time While Executing The Rules

We are migrating from CRE to DE and we see some differences in the rule fired results. To find the root cause, we want to know the variable values when a specific rule gets executed. Currently we are unable to debug the genereated DE code using th...
about 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under 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...
about 8 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Planned for future release

Concurrent Access on Decision Table for Editing should not be allowed via Decision Center API

We have a utility exposed that leverages Decision Center APIs to fetch and update data within a decision table and deploy on RES for one of our decision services. This utility is exposed and used by multiple clients. We've observed that when we re...
about 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

DE: Add the functions (.fct) in debug ruleset.arl file

all the function code (.fct files) should be added to ruleset.arl file which is important for debugging
about 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

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...
almost 9 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Management of optional inputs in DVS templates

No description provided
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 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...
almost 9 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Functionality already exists

Allow override of SSL config in tlsSecurity.xml in ODM CP4BA deployment

When ODM components are deployed as part of the CloudPak, the SSL settings for the Liberty application server can be found in tlsSecurity.xml file deployed to the pod. Currently, the only customization we can do to these settings are the ability t...
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Exporting Decision Table directly to Excel

From within a Decision Service, when looking at a Decision Table, having the ability to export the entire decision table you are viewing into and Excel Spreadsheet.
over 4 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration