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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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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
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under 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...
about 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

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...
over 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 ...
almost 3 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...
about 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).
almost 7 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Functionality already exists

ARSLSYNC - not importing username information from LDAP.

The ARSLSYNC process is lacking the ability to insert username details, currently it only updates the username. At the moment. The CMOD Administrator has the ability to update this information, this must be done manually. To resolve this issue, th...
28 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Under review

Return server generated field data - such as the unique id which is populated at load time - via REST or the ODWEK Java APIs loading functions.

developer teams using REST functions would not need to do extra search to get from hit list the unique identifier of a document but would get the value at load time (from auto generated field declares as UNIQUEID)
about 1 month ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

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...
2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration