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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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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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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...
7 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

Return server generated field data - such as the unique id which is populated at load time - via REST or the ODWEK Java APIs loading functions.

developer teams using REST functions would not need to do extra search to get from hit list the unique identifier of a document but would get the value at load time (from auto generated field declares as UNIQUEID)
12 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

Azure SQL support for Content Manager OnDemand for Multiplatforms

Accordinf to Prerequisites and Versions listed in the SPCR there is a support for Windows SQL Server 2025 currently, but there is no support for Azure SQL database, that according to microsoft is the latest build of Windows SQL Server. Being able ...
about 1 month ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Return load error details through CMOD REST API calls

Right now, when a file fails to load to OnDemand through the CMOD REST client, it returns a generic error message in the "status" field: Failed: Failed to commit Load. Please consult the System Log for additional information. RC = 2096 Message = T...
about 1 month ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Encryption Support for OnDemand Ecosystem

Provide support and capabilities around encrypting connections to/from the OnDemand Ecosystem. Additional details/conversation can be found in case TS018552989 .
about 2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

Decrypting AT-TLS data stream from z/OS, so it can be loaded into OnDemand.

Decrypting AT-TLS data stream from z/OS, so it can be loaded into OnDemand.
2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Not under consideration

We would like to see CMOD function with passwordless IDs, esp. for ARS* tasks or remote connections.

Currently all ARS* started tasks and any remote connections that we have to CMOD use an ID and password wherein the passwords are stored in the stash file during the instance creation. Recently there were some issues occurred wherein the IDs got r...
3 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

Enhance ARSYSPIN STORLIMIT to accept truncated segment of sysout into the current collection

Currently, the ARSYSPIN STORLIMIT keyword allows three actions: abend, hold, and retry. We set a size limit in MB or GB, and when the collection has an incoming selection of sysout/spool file that is larger than the limit, it can only do three thi...
3 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Under review

CMOD Thick Client provide Active Session Timeout option

Currently OnDemand Windows thick Client provides setting for Inactive Session Timeout, but does not provide a setting for Active Session Timeout. On zOS, even after ARSSOCKD is cycled, a user who was connected to the server remained active and is ...
3 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

IBM CMOD REST API support varies application servers

I have an idea for the IBM CMOD REST API to support and be compatible with various application servers. Currently, the CMOD REST API only supports WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Liberty. However, many customers maintain a vendor list f...
4 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration