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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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,

Post your ideas
  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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Datacap

It would be great to export metadatas into a UTF-8 without BOM txt file.

By default the export actions only permits to export into a UTF-8 BOM or UTF-16 BOM.It would be great to export metadatas into a UTF-8 without BOM txt file. And why not allowing other encoding (ie : ANSI, CP1252) ? It could be a modification of th...
almost 2 years ago in Datacap Under review

Disable shortcut popup in IBM Datacap Desktop

Hello, A user scans a batch by clicking on the “Scan” shortcut, the scanning interface opens. The user scans a batch, then clicks on “Submit”. A first popup appears, then disappears after 10 seconds. The scan interface closes and a second popup ap...
over 1 year ago in Datacap Under review

DATACAP - Suggestions in ICN search

It would be really cool that we can filter the job monitor by the "task start" column using a variable for the current day, instead of type the date.
almost 2 years ago in Datacap Under review

WTM does not have the ability to set ScanSrcPath attribute in the dco when an upload is called

When using Datacap + wTM service Queue/UploadFile API, in the xml output, original Filename is not present. However, Below attribute is available in OOTB vscan.xml when we ingest a file from Datacap studio. <V n="ScanSrcPath">C:\Datacap\Spli...
4 months ago in Datacap Under review

Datacap Navigator nscan task to contain a batch scanned detail displaying total page count per pdf file.

Background: Customer came from FileNET Capture Professional and enduser are used to see scanned batch details and information. Idea Request: In IBM Datacap Navigator - Nscan task does not show how many pages is in the pdf unless user select on the...
3 months ago in Datacap Under review

Enhancement Request: Datacap Support Microsoft Graph App-Only Authentication for Office 365 Email Ingestion Using Client Secret or Certificate-Based Credentials

Customer security teams are increasingly restricting or prohibiting username and password-based authentication for application integrations. Many organizations now require vendors to support modern Microsoft Entra ID authentication patterns, inclu...
4 months ago in Datacap Under review

Need for Loop Mechanism in Datacap to Handle Dynamic Function Executions Efficiently

Expected Frequency of Usage:The feature would be frequently used in scenarios where repeating a specific function is required until a certain condition is met. This is often necessary when the condition depends on dynamically changing variables, s...
about 2 years ago in Datacap Under review