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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).


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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)

Requesting an enhancement to ARSJESD TLS connection handling so that malformed, mismatched, or incorrectly configured TLS connection attempts are rejected gracefully at the session level without causing the ARSJESD process to terminate.

The client has implemented TLS with ARSJESD in CMOD 10.5.0.10 on Linux. Correctly configured TLS connections work. However, when a user or upstream mainframe sender attempts to connect using TLS incorrectly, ARSJESD logs a TLS handshake failure an...
4 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) Submitted

Introduce a warning when there is a date range mismatch in IBM Content Manager OnDemand

If a user enters an incorrect START_DT and STOP_DT in the application group, a warning will be presented to avoid issues with deletions in the future. For example: START_DT: 9999-12-31 23:59:59.0STOP_DT: 0001-01-01 00:00:00.0
6 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) Submitted

utilize Windows sizing features for both admin and configurator clients

Take advantage of the windows sizing feature so that more details are visible on the screen, such as directories when looking at the services on configurator, or looking at any attributes on the windows admin screens. This would include options to...
about 2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) Submitted

Microsoft Entra ID integration without providing LDAP server or port details

As part of bank security compliance customer is migrating to latest, secured IDP and as per regulatory it is prohibited to share LDAP server host or port details. So, SCB is exploring ways to achieve this for CMOD thick clients.
2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) Submitted

Support for Mutual SSL (Client certificates authenticating) for connecting to z/OS server.

In our organisation the use of passwords for Non Personal Accounts is being discontinued. The directive is to use authentication with client certificates. (a.k.a. Mutual SSL) DB2 for z/OS is supporting this type of authentication but Content Manag...
3 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) Under review

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...
3 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) Future consideration

with reference to TS020728795, Concurrent login enabled, Inadequate input validation, Session doesn’t Expire Post Changing Password issues found in OnDemand Penetration test

Item Issue Description Impact Recommendation IBM feedback 1 Concurrent login enabled: The test team observed that the application allows concurrent login attempts through the client. We were able to run two concurrent sessions from s...
4 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) Not under consideration

Enhancement for ARSXML - Option to update ALL tables when switching a field between Index and Filter on the AG

The GUI allows you to decide whether or not to update all of the existing tables or only new ones going forward when flipping a field between Filter and Index however ARSXML does not have the capability. Allowing ARSXML this feature would mean we ...
5 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) Under review

Support for POSTGRESQL

We currently deploy CMOD on AIX and do not have the ability to use POSTGRESQL as database. POSTGRESQL is our db of choice moving forward.
5 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 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...
6 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) Future consideration