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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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arsadmin encrypt/decrypt

To maintain the feel of consistency of arsadmin tool it would be welcome to add (unlock) sub modules of encrypt / decrypt when CMOD is configured with the encryption at rest.
3 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Not under consideration

Native scripting for the OnDemand Client

Please add native scripting for the CMOD OnDemand client. Other clients (Such as DocumentDirect for ViewDirect) have had this functionality for decades. The OLE and DDE APIs in the 10.5 version of the client are antiquated and difficult to program...
5 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

Add Ubuntu as a support OS for Linux

I have a very large customer that is standardizing on Linux Ubuntu OS as there corporate standard and using any other OS takes an exception process that is difficult and time consuming with no guarantee that it will be approved. They are canceling...
7 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

ODWek: Duplicate ODServer objects

ODServer initialization is an expensive operation. ODFolder initialization from that ODServer is also expensive. However, connection pooling is a recommended best practice when utilizing ODWek. What if we could initialize a single/few ODServer obj...
7 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Not under consideration

Simplify searching an individual Application Group

Searching today follows one of three paths: Based on ODCriteria values Based on SQL Based on an ODNamedQuery The only provision in ODWek to allow restricting searches to a given Application Group is via ODFolder.setApplGroupForSearchWithSQL(). My ...
9 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Not under consideration

To refine the code of re-establishing connection with Db2 instead of core dumping when enchanting communication error

Because the customer need to clean core dump log every day, the CMOD & DB2 didn't crash, it cause the IT need to take a lot of time to maintain and handle this problem.
9 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Not under consideration

ODWEK: Consolidate folder search calls

ODWEK makes individual search calls to CMOD for each Application Group in a folder instead of submitting a single request that is fulfilled on the server side. For example. if I execute a search against "Folder 1" and "Folder 1" contains 10 Applic...
about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

Support to run Content Manager OnDemand in Ubuntu

We have a large customer that their standard is Ubuntu for Linux and they have to go through a tedius process to run in another Linux platform. I have to believe that there are other customers that will benefit from this support. With out the supp...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

Allow PDF Indexer to Split Bookmark Resource

Large PDF reports generated upstream contain many recipients. For each recipient, there are many pages and sections. The PDF bookmark resource displays each recipient and within each recipient, their own sections. Currently CMOD only allows a All ...
almost 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

cmod do not allow oam storage set assignment for application group that is expire type segment

when an application group is assigned to a storage set that was initially cache only and then a storage node for oam is added and marked for load data....... arsmaint is expiring the cmod indexes, but not the oam directory rows or oam objects. thi...
almost 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 7 Not under consideration