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  • 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

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  • Content Services - Content Manager OnDemand

  • Content Services - Daeja Virtual Viewer

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  • 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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Automation Decision Services (ADS)

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Timebound the embedded rule execution and get partial/full results within the given time

When we invoke the rule execution API, we want to set the time limit for the execution. The API should return with partial results with whatever rules are executed if the rule execution is not fully completed within the time set.
about 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Not under consideration

Sequential Engine - Execute All The Rules Irrespective of Tuple Matching

Today, the CRE and DE sequential engines skip a rule task if any tuple variable(s) are missing during rule execution. This is not an expected behavior. There may be 100 rules in a ruletask and a tuple variable may be used in only one rule so why w...
about 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

Provide an ODM API to invoke Rules Simulation

Provide an ODM API to allow a client application to invoke (or kickoff) a Rules Simulation Job programmatically by specifying the “simulation name identifier” and “simulation property parameters” (this is so that the client application can pass ot...
about 5 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Easily manage snapshots with REST API (delete and rename)

Our ODM implementation requires a full autonomy for our users in managing/testing/deploying rules. A baseline is created each time a user deploy rules into test environment. When deploying into production environment, we extract ruleset thanks to ...
about 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 4 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...
about 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Add ODM to Azure Active Directory application gallery

For Azure SSO, our organization requires ODM to be in the Azure Active Directory application gallery as it adds user friendliness for integration and standardizes support.
about 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

Need support for creating multiple ODM client sessions in java

Today due to thread-local implementations in shared cache in ODM libraries, we are unable to create multiple sessions in the same thread. Please provide support to create multiple sessions in the same thread to simplify our customization code and ...
about 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Functionality already exists

LocalDate and LocalDateTime

We want to use LocalDate and LocalDateTime instead of Java Util Date. Now we use Java Util Date and add an annotation @JsonFormat(timezone="Europe/Amsterdam", shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd").Timezone issues are a real head...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Allow clean configuration of XU pool with JBoss console

(from Case TS003025050) For JBoss environments, there is no a clean way to configure the XU pool sizes. Currently, the supported way (and not very well documented) is to modify the file ironjacamar.xml from the resource adapter that comes the prod...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Provide a DELETE REST API in Decision Server to delete unused libraries and xoms

When using CI to deploy ruleapps on a daily/commit basis, the amount of unused reslib library is rising regularly. It would be nice to be able to clean unused libs/resources with a REST API as part of a cleaning jenkins job. BTW : a single button ...
about 1 year ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration