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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  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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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...
20 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

IBM CMOD OpenShift Operator (Day-1/Day-2 automation, HA patterns, ODF-ready)

Deploying and operating CMOD on containers still requires many manual steps (sizing, PVCs, routes, upgrades, backups, HA tuning). Inconsistent setups slow delivery and increase risk during upgrades and recoveries. Please provide a Red Hat certifie...
29 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under 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...
29 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

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 ...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month 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 ...
2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Under review

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...
3 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 ...
3 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

CMOD - Parameter to turn on the Strict Carriage Control Validation in AFP Documents

Update - 8/13/2025 See attached email Related ticket https://w3.ibm.com/tools/caseviewer/case/TS019780232 Original description Since CMOD v10.5, stricter validation for carriage control (CC) on AFP documents has been introduced. For example, blank...
4 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

Please continue MAPI support to upload OnDemand files to Outlook as an attachment.

Hi Team, Please continue to support MAPI function in the CMOD application despite Microsoft disconnecting in the near future. The end users love the 'send' feature in the CMOD app and with the 'new' outlook being introduced it does not allow users...
4 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

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