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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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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

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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...
about 1 month ago in Datacap 3 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...
3 months ago in Datacap 2 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...
3 months ago in Datacap 1 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...
4 months ago in Datacap 1 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
4 months ago in Datacap 2 Needs more information

Request for New Action: ex_login_O365_OAuth_Graph_ClientSecret for Passwordless O365 Authentication via Graph API to be used in combination with the ex_SetProxy or ex_SetProxy_FullURL

Currently, Datacap's EWS action library lacks support for passwordless login to Office 365 using modern authentication. With Microsoft discontinuing EWS support, existing login actions are no longer viable. Additionally, there is no Graph API-base...
7 months ago in Datacap 0 Under review

Upgrade RRProcessor.exe as a 64-bit process

Currently, RRProcessor.exe runs as a 32-bit process, which limits the usable memory to 4GB. The process occasionally encounters out-of-memory errors and terminates unexpectedly. This issue stems from the inherent 4GB memory limit of 32-bit processes.
7 months ago in Datacap 3 Future consideration

Changing default column headers in Datacap job monitor to Uppercase

In Datacap Navigator Job Monitor default column headers are in title case format.Customer managed to change custom columns in uppercase format using recommendations DB2 using https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7165575However, same recommendati...
8 months ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

Datacap does not accept numeric value in username filter

Datacap accept user ID in alpha-numeric and only numeric value is not accepted. This seems to be a design concern, since there is no validation or constraint on the format of the user ID, and this ID is directly used to define an XML element name,...
9 months ago in Datacap 2 Not under consideration

I see we can send the image to the models and get the extraction rather sending the OCR page text to watsonx.ai models. I see better accuracy for the terrible handwritten documents

I see we can send the image to the models and get the extraction rather sending the OCR page text to watsonx.ai models. I see better accuracy for the terrible handwritten documents
10 months ago in Datacap 2 Future consideration