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).


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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:

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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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  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 ...
    5 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 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...
    6 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under 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...
    8 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

    Update CMOD to create UUID V7 values for Unique ID fields

    We would like CMOD to create UUID Version 7 (timestamp+random) instead of UUID Version 4 (all random) for Unique ID fields as it would improve the database indexes for these fields. Version 4 and version 7 UUIDs can co-exist since they are identif...
    12 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

    arsload option to suppress creation of Unique IDs

    We have recently started using the Unique ID field in application groups as a permanent key to retrieve objects from CMOD.However, when rebuilding application groups using arsdoc get and arsload, the previously assigned Unique IDs will be thrown a...
    12 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 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...
    about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration

    CMOD - Oracle RAC - to be RAC aware

    Currently in your whitepaper on active/active - it indicates it works with Oracle RAC but can not use the capabilities of Oracle RAC session reconnect to the other Instance. In essence CMOD is not active/active with Oracle RAC until the applicatio...
    almost 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Future consideration

    Native Mac Ondemand Client and Server Apps

    A microsoft windows environment is currently required for our team to Admin or Develop our application which uses CMOD Java API. Some of our team members use Mac which forces them to develop or run the admin client in a virtualized windows environ...
    about 2 years 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
    over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration

    Allow shops to control timeout process or heartbeat for ARSODF and CMOD Cloud

    Currently the ARSODFC task will come down if CMOD Cloud or Network issues cause it to disconnect. We would like to set the amount of time before the disconnect occurs. Currently there are no messages other than an RC02 to indicate a "timeout" or m...
    over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

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