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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Datacap

Retrieval of group name associated to a batch

We would need a supported API, database query, RuleRunner action or .NET API method that allows a custom action running in RuleRunner to retrieve the Group Name(s) of the group(s) associated with the current batch at runtime
13 days ago in Datacap Submitted

Datacap Navigator to have the ability to delete pages directly from the image viewer via keyboard delete/shortcut or an action in the viewer menu.

Allow the ability to delete pages directly from the image viewer (single and multi‑page), via keyboard Delete/shortcut or an action in the viewer menu. Current option only allow page to be deleted from the batch tree.
about 2 months ago in Datacap Submitted

Datacap Scan & Verify panel to display image in dual window and to allow thumbnail and image viewer to be separated

Allow dual window to have a separate dialogue box or viewer. One for the image viewer and one for the thumbnail viewer.
about 2 months ago in Datacap Submitted

Add a feature for Datacap to handle Kerberos failover without falling back to NTLM, ensuring authentication remains on Kerberos in cross‑forest setups.

In distributed enterprise environments with cross‑forest domain trusts, Datacap currently connects to servers in different domains through IP, which indicates it is using NTLM authentication. NTLM is less secure and often restricted by organizatio...
about 2 months ago in Datacap Submitted

Refresh the Datacap Verify batch tree so that all information in the Batch Tree panel is reloaded from the task XML after the Alternate Task profile completes

Currently, the verify UI does not refresh all the information in the Batch Tree panel from the task XML after the Alt Task profile completes. In the Verify UI, the Alt Task Profile is executed to automatically update the batch DCO—such as adjustin...
2 months ago in Datacap Future consideration

Control in the Datacap Rulerunner Manager level (Information, Warning, Error) of the messages generated in the Event Viewer

The functionality will be useful for simpler administration of the running applications and better performance, because there will not be tens or hundreds of informational messages within a couple of seconds.The application administrator, the supp...
3 months ago in Datacap Functionality already exists

Datacap Navigator under verfiy screen interface does not display the full file path of the document selected for upload. Which makes it difficult to confirm the source location of the document.

Enhance the Verify UI to include the complete file path of the browsed document. This will allow users to verify the origin of the file before submitting the batch, ensuring accuracy and reducing errors caused by selecting files from incorrect dir...
5 months ago in Datacap Not under consideration

Datacap ILMT PVU/VPC support

Datacap currently does not show up in ILMT reports. We have run the Database License Manager utility, selected PVU, executed it and it generated the swidtag files. However after re-running ILMT, Datacap is still not detected. The customer opened a...
5 months ago in Datacap Functionality already exists

Enforce safe XML element names for user-derived IDs in Datacap services (SavePluginFilterService or wTM)

Datacap uses user IDs directly as XML element names. Because there is no validation or constraint on ID format, invalid XML names (numeric-only, spaces, symbols, etc.) break downstream processing from one of customer which has numerical user id. P...
6 months ago in Datacap Future consideration

JSON Support in Datacap

Modern capture pipelines increasingly rely on JSON payloads (APIs, webhooks, ...). Today, handling JSON in Datacap requires custom scripts or brittle intermediates. Add native, high-performance JSON capabilities: Both Ingestion and Parsing
6 months ago in Datacap Needs more information

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