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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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  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

Datacap Navigator Verify - Request the ability to execute an Alternate Task Profile and submit the batch in a single step

In clients system, an additional task profile was developed that allows users to reject a batch from Datacap Navigator during the Verify step. To complete this process, the user must first click the Reject Batch button and then click Submit to fin...
5 months ago in Datacap Future consideration

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
6 months ago in Datacap Future consideration

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.
8 months ago in Datacap Future consideration

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.
8 months ago in Datacap Future consideration

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...
8 months ago in Datacap Future consideration

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...
12 months ago in Datacap Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Datacap Future consideration

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.
over 1 year ago in Datacap 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...
over 1 year ago in Datacap Future 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
over 1 year ago in Datacap Future consideration