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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).


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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,

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...
about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Object Store Table Schemas for Datacap

Ad per customer this will help customer database team to take refrence
about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

- How to Automate IBM Datacap application Manager entries with out manual intervention including Admin and Engine Databases (Microsoft SQL server)

Hi Team, Case - TS008622751 is raised on the same We had discussion with Aditya from IBM Support on How to automate Application manager and to understand feature request Aditya was mentioning that we should submit a feature request with the ac...
over 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

A large Datacap customer want s to add database connection pooling to the product It appears we may be able to use .NET's connection pooling ability by merely adding the following to the DB connection string: ;Pooling=true;Min Pool Size=<x>;Max Pool Size=<xxx>; " We need DEV/ENG to test this and provide support if the test achieves the desired results.

In order for an enterprise application to scale, connection pooling is needed.
about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Add other flat file types to set_metadata_types action

Would like to add other file types, specifically a csv file, to the action under the mvscan library set_metadata_types.
over 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Datacap: ex_scan action in Ewsmail needs to be able to scan from subfolders

The ex_scan action in Ewsmail in Datacap needs to be able to scan for e-mails in subfolders of the Inbox in addition to inbox. i.e. ex_scan_folder("orders")ex_scan checks the subfolder orders of the Inbox of the previously established connection
over 4 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Support for Bulgarian document to be exported as doc/docs format using the OCR_A engine

The customer wants to use the OCR_A engine to OCR documents and save them as Word documents. The function is available in the product but not officially supported.
almost 2 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...
about 4 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Support use of AWS RDS SQL with the Datacap platform

We are migrating from legacy SQL implementations, and would like to consider use of AWS RDS SQL for our Datacap implementation. We see no mention of support, or of non-support, of the RDS SQL platform and would like clarity to be added to the Data...
over 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Certify and support Datacap Desktop as a hosted application on Citrix Server

We have users all over the world. They all use Citrix Workspace to access many applications which also includes our Datacap Desktop implementation. Our Citrix Servers farm is hosted in AWS next to our Datacap Taskmaster and Rulerunner servers, Fil...
over 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration