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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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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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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...
3 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Submitted

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...
3 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 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...
25 days ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Under review

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.
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Not under consideration

LDAP Sync on multiplatform CMOD: Enable wild card with user filter in ars.cfg.

Currently there is no wild card allowed under ARS_LDAP_USER_FILTER parameter in ars.cfg file. This feature is present in ARS_LDAP_GROUP_FILTER parameter. Because of this, the users and groups are able to independently sync to CMOD after arslsync i...
8 months ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Functionality already exists

ODWek: Duplicate ODServer objects

ODServer initialization is an expensive operation. ODFolder initialization from that ODServer is also expensive. However, connection pooling is a recommended best practice when utilizing ODWek. What if we could initialize a single/few ODServer obj...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 4 Not under consideration

ODWEK: Consolidate folder search calls

ODWEK makes individual search calls to CMOD for each Application Group in a folder instead of submitting a single request that is fulfilled on the server side. For example. if I execute a search against "Folder 1" and "Folder 1" contains 10 Applic...
almost 2 years ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 1 Not under consideration

Simplify searching an individual Application Group

Searching today follows one of three paths: Based on ODCriteria values Based on SQL Based on an ODNamedQuery The only provision in ODWek to allow restricting searches to a given Application Group is via ODFolder.setApplGroupForSearchWithSQL(). My ...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 3 Not under consideration

Allow files greater than 2GB to be loaded

We are receiving single files greater than 2GB (2.2 GB) which are ASCII/ISO text files used for merchant reconciliation and encounter error ARS1412E when trying to load them. Therefore we must be able to load text files bigger than 2GB. Other MIME...
about 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration

MSSQL support for CMOD on Linux

Currently, CMOD on Linux is not able to connect to MSSQL running on either Windows or Linux. When deploying CMOD on Linux, deploying MSSQL on Linux is usually the preferred option. When deploying in a cloud environment like AWS, Linux\PostgreSQL i...
over 1 year ago in Content Manager OnDemand (CMOD) 0 Future consideration