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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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  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

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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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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...
about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

Message ARS0081I should include AG fields that are set to be 'Logged'

Customers want to see field information in messages that show document information when documents are retrieved or printed
4 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

PostgreSQL Support for CMOD MP

PostgreSQL is a database very common in customers. Currently, many clients are using this database to replace Oracle databases due to costs.
about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Create additional parameters in ars.cfg to be used specific for ARSLSYNC to separate them from normal LDAP config instead of being shared parameters for both LDAP & ARSLSYNC

Create additional parameters in ars.cfg to be used specific for ARSLSYNC to separate them from normal LDAP config instead of being shared parameters for both LDAP & ARSLSYNC Summary Currently the LDAP Parameters configured in ars.cfg locally o...
6 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Not under consideration

Be able to run the Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) LDAP synchronization (ARSLSYNC) program on a remote server

We would prefer to run the ARSLSYNC program remotely, with the ars.cfg configured on the same remote server with required LDAP Parameters to complete the SYNC with a specific LDAP server. Reason is, is that the LDAP Parameters configured in ars.cf...
6 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

CMOD 10.5 System Log to a file

I would like to be able to see the System Log in Cloud Watch or Sumo Logic or Data Dog or Slunk like application. Most of these ingest via a file on the OS. Would be great to be able to add something to the configuration to simply log this output ...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration

Implement RMVRPTOND at the iSeries over to a remote server

Hello, Would like to see the RMVRPTOND command at the iSeries over to a remote server (MP) implemented as it is the case on iSeries. Thanks, Olivier Baltus
7 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 5

IBM Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) - Compatibility with OnPrem Cloudian HyperStore

I understand that IBM Content Manager OnDemand on Z is fully compatible with Amazon S3 in the cloud, however I would like to understand if IBM Content Manager OnDemand is fully compatible with the On-Perm S3 Compatible storage from Cloudian. https...
7 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Future consideration

Compatibility of CMOD with Scality S3

Santander Bank has scality s3 as object storage standard as well as CMOD for content management. It is desirable to have official compatibility to integrate them and having support in long term
about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future 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...
about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration