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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


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Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD)

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active/inactive flag for applications/application groups/folders

similar to odf objects, we would like active/inactive flags for other cmod objects. In the case of applications and application groups it could generate an 88 load failure record or allow load but produce new message type. For folders, if inactive...
about 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration

cmod system log entries for arsmaint program should have correct userid

when running arsmaint, the cmod system log entries should have the id provided as part of the command string stored with the records in the user id column, not the generic arsmaint label. The way it is recorded now, it provides no audit trail for ...
over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

CMOD 88 record needs consistency

depending on what causes the failure, the job name and job number that failed is missing. These always need to be reported. For example if the application group name was invalid we get Application Group Failed Load: Name(Xdftest) LoadId() File(/PR...
almost 3 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

File Import Enhancement Request for ARSLOAD

Our customer, Premera Blue Cross has asked for us to create a means by which they can use ARSLOAD to import files from a folder and map those files to a specific application group (without needing to know the filename, etc).
over 6 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Functionality already exists

Enhance "View Title" display update during "View Full Report" at page level

We store the mainframe batch jobs log information in CMOD at the DD_NAME level, with the DD_NAME field set as the "View Title". However, when we select "View Full Report" for a job in CMOD thick client 10.5.8, the "View Title" does not change as w...
3 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

ARSDOC QUERY to provide mapped values

When running ARSDOC QUERY to extract data from CMOD the option to pull out the mapped values as displayed on the client. We have a use case where we want to get the mapped values and not the database values. Using CMOD REST is not the best tool fo...
about 1 month ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 5 Under review

Choose where ERM data gets reloaded to

The ability to specify where ERM should load data (Cache vs WORM Storage / Other File System etc). ERM loads objects straight to Cache even if the original object has met its Cache fulfillment and resided solely on WORM media at the time of extrac...
about 2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Extend ARSLSYNC utility to sync more attributes/fields

Using the CMoD arslsync utility. Rabobank would like to include additional attributes/fields from the LDAP (Active Directory), e.g. a special RabobankID that is used for Audit purposes. unfortunatelly such a function is not present in arslsync. As...
3 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

IBM Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) - LDAP Sync - ARS1221I Group Member Addition

Preview will not output the group member addition in certain scenarios, but the actual sync will assign group membership correctly. One example shown below. The group CMOD_Users does not exist in CMOD and user001 and user002 are members of CMOD_Us...
5 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future 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
7 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration