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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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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.
1 day ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

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...
15 days ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

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,...
about 2 months ago in Datacap 0 Under review

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
2 months ago in Datacap 0 Under review

In case of multipage PDFs, the new action allows us to define which pages will be OCR’ed and analyzed by Datacap. Same as action SplitTIFFPageRange for Tiff-Files.

If a MultipagePDF includes 100 pages all of them will be extracted. We just need the first page the process will take minutes until all pages are extracted in a time critical process (1 Batch in less than 15 sec.). that is not exactable. The actio...
3 months ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

Allow user to select scan profile from a drop-down list rather than clicking the configure button

In the default scan panel, allow the user to select a pre-configured scan settings profile from a drop-down list. Currently you have to click the configure button which pops up the scanner's interface. This allows the user to make any kind of chan...
3 months ago in Datacap 0 Under review

Configuration option for batch id reset on app base

Dear team, currently the batch id gets reset every year as explained in the link below: => https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/batch-ids%C2%A0generated%C2%A0resets-annually-ibm-datacap As this wasn't documented before, we used the batch_id to gen...
4 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

DATACAP - ICN - DatePicker should keep its value even if a Data Preparation Task Profile is executed.

It could be great that, on a scan panel, the date picker keeps its value (the current day) when any Data Preparation Task Profile is executed.At the moment, the Date Picker looses its data as soon as a Data Preparation Task Profile is executed so ...
4 months ago in Datacap 1 Needs more information

Ability to integrate with open AI models/framework other than watsonx.ai action library

we got feedback from the Ontario ministry of health canada client with concerns in using watsonx.ai. The AI board at OPS has a few external AI models/frameworks (AWS and Microsoft ones) approved but not watsonx.ai.
5 months ago in Datacap 2 Needs more information

Configurable option for Datacap Application Deployment Tool (DCDexployment.exe) to stop the Taskmaster during deployment

As per below documentation, End-to-end remote deployment on Datacap Taskmaster Server, Rulerunner, and Datacap Web Services web servers includes starting and stopping the servers. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/datacap/9.1.9?topic=administering-datac...
5 months ago in Datacap 1 Not under consideration