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This is an IBM Automation portal for Digital Business Automation products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

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  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


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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Stop deployment in Decision Center

When deployments should be stopped, for various reasons, there is no obvious way to stop a deployment.
about 6 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Future consideration

Management of optional inputs in DVS templates

No description provided
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

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 3 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 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Future 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 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Planned for future release

Need additional rule details in web hooks

If the below details are not avaiable in the RuleCreated/RuleUpdated events, kindly add them. Also provide an option to do customization to add additional details in the event data. Default Rule Properties Custom Rule Properties Rule Content Rule ...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Functionality already exists

Usability of the product with Automation frameworks like DevOps Pipelines

Please refer the Case - TS005350441 Lack of API / ANT Tasks to upload and run the Test Suites is breaking our automations and causing huge efforts to manually upload, execute and validate the test reports. We have about 100+ Rule Projects and expe...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Functionality already exists

To add a feature to establish quality gate, something similar to sonar qube gating for java

By having this, we can ensure the quality of code developed by developer, also to have test coverage , further this also could streamline the process to business user
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Recreate Query/Extractor for decision engine.

We need to create, deploy and execute a single ruleset using a custom application. The functionality must be the same as the Query/Extractor for classic rule projects, but we need to do this with the new decision engine.
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Functionality already exists

Webhook for rule changes

IBM should provide webhooks to get notified with all the rule details to a custom application when a new rule is created, when an existing rule is modified or deleted. It should be simple configuration on the DC to configure any external REST appl...
over 3 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 3 Functionality already exists