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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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  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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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.
over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Not under 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...
about 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...
3 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 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 ...
6 months 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...
6 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

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...
almost 3 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 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...
about 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

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