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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:

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,

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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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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,...
8 months ago in Datacap 0 Under review

Enable wTM service to process all request headers in lower case

This request is to enable wTM API services to comply to the networking standards (RFC 2616 Sec 4.2 and RFC 7230 Sec 3.2) which state that HTTP headers are case insensitive. This issue was identified during our testing with IBM Cloud Load Balancer....
over 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

DataCap on Prem should work with wx.ai on prem.

at the moment, Datacap is only supporting the cloud IAM to authenticate with wx.ai. since the IAM on prem in wx.ai works different, the request would be to allow for authenticating against on prem as well
about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Under review

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...
3 months ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

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
3 months ago in Datacap 0 Submitted

Scan to PDF in Datacap Navigator

We would like the ability to scan directly to an ICN entry template as a PDF. The Datacap Navigator transactional capture allows scanning directly to an entry template but only as a jpeg or tif image. We have customers that don't necessarily need ...
over 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Persist data between documents in a batch in Datacap Navigator

We have customized the index screen so when the indexer selects the 'Persist Date' checkbox, the indexing screen remembers the received date and populates the field for each document in the batch. When the indexer selects the 'Persist Doc Type' ch...
over 2 years ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

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...
12 months ago in Datacap 0 Under review

For each fix pack or new version of Datacap, backup, save, all configurations and registry tunes and reapply as the last install step.

Customers constantly have to waste time and resources checking and resetting the previous settings and registry tunes in Datacap after every patch or new DC version.
about 3 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

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.
about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Under review