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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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Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD)

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System Log Logging when making changes using ARSXML

Hi, Certain types of changes with ARSXML (like Folder changes for example) are not logged and viewable in the OnDemand System Log like they are when actioned from the GUI. From the GUI a summary of the folder as it appeared before the change, as w...
about 1 month ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

AI enablement for IBM CMOD product - product enhancement

We need enablement with AI with CMOD and transform it from a passive archive into an intelligent content platform - automating classification and improving search accuracy reducing operational effort and unlocking insights from decades of stored d...
4 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration

Enhancements to the ARSDOC Commandline API

Hi, we think some enhancements to the ARSDOC CLI API would be helpful to anyone who uses it. We've noticed the behavior is slightly differently than the Desktop Application and ODWEK API, it also has a few things that with slight tweaks could help...
4 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Native JSON Ingestion & Indexing

Modern apps and event streams emit JSON. Today, teams must pre-flatten or convert JSON (e.g., to CSV/XML) before loading into CMOD, which adds brittle ETL steps, loses nested structure, and slows time-to-archive. Please add a JSON ingest path acro...
5 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Future consideration

CMOD product inbuilt core dump enablement

Currently whenever there are any issues with CMOD like if it crashes abnormally or hangs for various reasons then ARSSOCKD would require restart to bring back the service but to get into RCA IBM team would need necessary trace log files and these ...
5 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Change rest command prompt to use a secondary prompt for password entry

Our security policy is to not allow developers/admins to have production passwords. The rest command structure requires the password be entered, and entered in the clear. Change the prompt to recognize not including the password and then provide a...
5 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Please enable "send button" from Ondemand Client for MS office 365 in future versions

Users are looking the "send button" in ondemand client for MS office 365 so that they can directly send all reports directly to outlook as a attachment instead of download the repirts ion desktop and manullay attaching them. It was working before ...
6 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Future consideration

Increase File Size Limit Beyond 2GB in IBM CMOD

We have several customers who need to onboard files larger than 2GB into IBM Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD). Due to strict data integrity requirements, splitting these files is not a viable option. Currently, CMOD does not support files of this s...
7 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Remove Requirement for Object Server Recycle after Updating S3 Key

We are looking for a solution where object server does not need to recycle when S3 key is changed. Customer has very tight requirement on key rotation (12 hours) and is not feasible to recycle object server every time they key is updated. This is ...
7 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

ARSLSYNC - not importing username information from LDAP.

The ARSLSYNC process is lacking the ability to insert username details, currently it only updates the username. At the moment. The CMOD Administrator has the ability to update this information, this must be done manually. To resolve this issue, th...
9 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Future consideration