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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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CMOD Thick Client provide Active Session Timeout option

Currently OnDemand Windows thick Client provides setting for Inactive Session Timeout, but does not provide a setting for Active Session Timeout. On zOS, even after ARSSOCKD is cycled, a user who was connected to the server remained active and is ...
10 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

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 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 2 Future consideration

enhance windows client hold processing from system load folder

when selecting a specific load from the System Load and requesting it to show holds, it should also list implied holds. Release Holds option should have the ability to remove implied holds
almost 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration

Enable document downloads at Application group API level in CMOD (Without using ODFolder)

Why is it useful - Currently if any developer wants to do bulk ingestion that is possible via Application Group level APIs, reference - https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/using-load-capabilities-through-odwek However if we want to extract documents...
almost 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

ADD IP ADDRESS OF ARSSOCKD TASK TO CRITICAL MESSAGES

When writing messages to the cmod system log application group, add the dns or ip address of the arssockd task that wrote the message. We have multiple started tasks and this information would be helpful at troubleshooting time minimally messages ...
almost 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Secret Key Change without restarting ARSOBJD

JPMC has a requirement to change their Storage Set Secret Key every 12 hours. The new Key is not picked up until ARSOBJD is recycled. JPMC says they cannot restart their systems every time a secret key is changed.
almost 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration

commit parameters for arsdoc commands

add parameters similar to ARS_DB_DOC_LOAD_COMMIT_CNT=3000 ARS_DB_DOC_UNLOAD_COMMIT_CNT=3000 that is invoked when arsdoc remove implied holds or arsdoc delete commands are issued? We have a daily process that releases many holds and may delete many...
over 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

allow export of application group to exclude export of applications

we try to keep our environments clean and only contain objects that are needed in that specific environment. We we like a check box on the application group export function that would allow us to turn off export of applications to the destination ...
almost 3 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration