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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)

Native scripting for the OnDemand Client

Please add native scripting for the CMOD OnDemand client. Other clients (Such as DocumentDirect for ViewDirect) have had this functionality for decades. The OLE and DDE APIs in the 10.5 version of the client are antiquated and difficult to program...
almost 3 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

CMOD product inbuilt core dump enablement

Currently whenever there are any issues with CMOD like if it crashes abnormally or hangs for various reasons then ARSSOCKD would require restart to bring back the service but to get into RCA IBM team would need necessary trace log files and these ...
12 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Change rest command prompt to use a secondary prompt for password entry

Our security policy is to not allow developers/admins to have production passwords. The rest command structure requires the password be entered, and entered in the clear. Change the prompt to recognize not including the password and then provide a...
12 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 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...
about 3 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

Remove Requirement for Object Server Recycle after Updating S3 Key

We are looking for a solution where object server does not need to recycle when S3 key is changed. Customer has very tight requirement on key rotation (12 hours) and is not feasible to recycle object server every time they key is updated. This is ...
about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

CMOD 10.5 System Log to a file

I would like to be able to see the System Log in Cloud Watch or Sumo Logic or Data Dog or Slunk like application. Most of these ingest via a file on the OS. Would be great to be able to add something to the configuration to simply log this output ...
over 3 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration

Please continue MAPI support to upload OnDemand files to Outlook as an attachment.

Hi Team, Please continue to support MAPI function in the CMOD application despite Microsoft disconnecting in the near future. The end users love the 'send' feature in the CMOD app and with the 'new' outlook being introduced it does not allow users...
about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Not under consideration

Request for CMOD to Support for AWS RDS database

A customer would like use AWS RDS loading MS SQL as a supported database.
about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

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

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