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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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  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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Decision Center: Add REST methods to manage Decision Runner

In today trends, we use Decision Runner no just to check, but also to generate compliance reference values, hence it would be nice to also get those operations exposed in the REST-API to add new scenario. Create Scenario (and Simulation) execute S...
almost 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 0 Not under consideration

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.
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 2 Not under consideration

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...
about 2 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.
about 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under 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
over 2 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration

Management of optional inputs in DVS templates

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

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
about 3 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...
over 7 years ago in Automation Decision Services (ADS) 1 Not under consideration