Digital Business Automation Ideas


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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:

Search existing ideas

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,

Post your ideas

  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.


Add a new idea Subscribe
Status Not under consideration
Workspace Operational Decision Manager
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 1, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

Move all functionality that requires modification of the product .war files (like secured htds & dynamic domains) into the product itself

With installation and management of the product needing more and more to be 100% automated, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain one-off instances of RES & Decision Center when the DecisionCenter.war and DecisionService.war files have to be modified for every fixpack. This problem becomes further compounded when server count increases over 10. We currently have over 200 servers and everytime a fix is released it takes about a month to get that fix fully implemented. It would be extremely useful for the business areas to be able to designate DB connections and security groups/users who can use their services without involvement from the infrastructure team. Our company uses puppet to do the majority of customizations, but we can't maintain 200+ different variations of one file much less two or four.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 19, 2024

    Hi Antony
    as a quick win I would suggest 2 pre-build new type of dynamic domains based on the same Excel idea, except datasource could be :
    a database
    a webservice

    Default wizard gui would provide forms to access each :
    - user/pwd/table/columns for each bom info label/b2x/doc etc .. for DB datasource,
    - url/user/pwd/jsonpath for REST web service datasource

  • Admin
    Antony Viaud
    Reply
    |     Sep 9, 2024

    Hello,

    adding a full permission service in ODM runtime to control who can execute a particular decision service would be a major taks that is currently not part of the runtime backlog.

    What we recommend instead is to use a dedicated API management tool in front of of ODM web services to control access to each decision service.

    Regarding the customization of Decision Center with custom dynamic domain providers, it's for a component that is quite central, so there's typically not many instances to update.

    I don't want to give a false expectation that we're considering this Idea for future implementation.

    If you feel that there are some 'quick wins' that we should consider, please share through an new Idea or through your ODM lab advocate.

    Thank you for your understanding.

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.