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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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,

Post your ideas
  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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Enhancement request to introduce a new http / https based health check page to ensure that TMS service is up and responsive.

Datacap Taskmaster servers are setup for using IBM Cloud Load Balancer. Enhancement request to introduce a new http / https based health check page to ensure that TMS service is up and responsive. Currently Datacap do not have any health check for...
over 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Enhance search filter for group retrieval to reduce latency during LLLDAP authentication

Due to the way Datacap handles group retrieval during authentication we experience significant latency during LLDAP authentication for users who are members of many groups. Indeed, Datacap uses a global LDAP chain (for LLDAP authentication) but it...
over 3 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Allow arrow navigation in DC Desktop Verify treeview

Using arrow keys to navigate from page to page the the treeview works fine in Datacap Desktop with a scan step, but it doesn't work in a Verify step. In Verify, the focus shifts to fields in the field pane and the treeview and the arrow keys no lo...
over 5 years ago in Datacap 0 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...
5 months ago in Datacap 1 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...
8 months ago in Datacap 0 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...
9 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...
11 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

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...
12 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Update .Net to a more recent long term supported release (LTSR)

Our DataCap Custom Action Libraries cannot be written at a .Net version higher than 4.7.2 in order for DataCap to use them. Our product is currently targeting .Net 8. While some conponents are shareable across the two version using .Net standard, ...
about 1 year ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

The wTMId cookie is not adequate for client IP affinity routing to Datacap Web Services Server, as the initial request does not contain the wTMId cookie because one has not been assigned yet. Provide a cookie mechanism that will handle all cases including when a wTMId has not been assigned to the initial logon request.

It is impossible to correctly do a load balancing scheme for wTM if not under a specific architecture or configuration. When a user uses IBM Content Navigator with the Datacap Navigator plugin, when it logs onto the repository, the Datacap Session...
over 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration