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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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Automation Decision Services (ADS)

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BC Rule Editing: category change should be effective immediately

While writing rule, when rule writer changes the category property in the property window and goes back to the rule editor, BOMs should be filtered according to the new category list and rule also should be compiled and errors should be highlighte...
almost 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Is a defect

BC - Create Rule: Collect data for properties first before creating the rule

In business console, while creating a new rule, it just collects rule name and creates the rule. But it should collect all the properties data before providing the rule editor. In PayPal, BOMs are filtered based on the checkpoints(category) proper...
almost 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

DE : need a new construct to execute all given conditions irrespective of results.

We need a new construct where all conditions can be executed irrespective of results. This is needed for doing custom variable assignments in the rule conditions.
almost 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to wrap column names in business console decision tables

With the release of ODM 8.11, Entreprise console is abandonned but in our company some business users still use it regularly. Indeed they have created some decision tables which are not really business rules but actually tables to map information ...
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

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.
almost 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 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

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 3 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 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

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 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future consideration

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