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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    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

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

    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 ...
    9 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

    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...
    7 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 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 3 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

    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...
    4 months 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...
    4 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Future 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

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