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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:

Search existing ideas

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,

Post your ideas

  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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    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

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

    Allow files greater than 2GB to be loaded

    We are receiving single files greater than 2GB (2.2 GB) which are ASCII/ISO text files used for merchant reconciliation and encounter error ARS1412E when trying to load them. Therefore we must be able to load text files bigger than 2GB. Other MIME...
    over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 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

    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 3 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under 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

    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...
    8 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

    MSSQL support for CMOD on Linux

    Currently, CMOD on Linux is not able to connect to MSSQL running on either Windows or Linux. When deploying CMOD on Linux, deploying MSSQL on Linux is usually the preferred option. When deploying in a cloud environment like AWS, Linux\PostgreSQL i...
    over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future 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...
    over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 4 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 ...
    over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Not under consideration

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