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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:

Search existing ideas

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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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...
1 day ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

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)
6 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

Azure SQL support for Content Manager OnDemand for Multiplatforms

Accordinf to Prerequisites and Versions listed in the SPCR there is a support for Windows SQL Server 2025 currently, but there is no support for Azure SQL database, that according to microsoft is the latest build of Windows SQL Server. Being able ...
27 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

IBM CMOD REST API support varies application servers

I have an idea for the IBM CMOD REST API to support and be compatible with various application servers. Currently, the CMOD REST API only supports WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Liberty. However, many customers maintain a vendor list f...
4 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future 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...
about 1 month ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

Provide a containerized image of Content Manager OnDemand

The page Building and deploying Content Manager OnDemand in a Docker container (ibm.com) explains how to set up, configure and run a standard version of CMOD in a Docker container. It would be more useful that IBM provides a cloud ready version of...
9 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Future consideration

Encryption Support for OnDemand Ecosystem

Provide support and capabilities around encrypting connections to/from the OnDemand Ecosystem. Additional details/conversation can be found in case TS018552989 .
about 2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

Decrypting AT-TLS data stream from z/OS, so it can be loaded into OnDemand.

Decrypting AT-TLS data stream from z/OS, so it can be loaded into OnDemand.
2 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Not under consideration

To refine the code of re-establishing connection with Db2 instead of core dumping when enchanting communication error

Because the customer need to clean core dump log every day, the CMOD & DB2 didn't crash, it cause the IT need to take a lot of time to maintain and handle this problem.
almost 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Not under 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...
5 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration