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
Post an idea.
Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.
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.
I believe IBM can make Datacap more performant, stable, and cloud-scalable—all of which are crucial as customers shift toward hybrid and AI-driven automation platforms.
There's still a place for Datacap in 2025 and I believe that a transition to 64-bit architecture would help keep it relevant, as long as it is stable. It's becoming more and more difficult to explain/justify some of Datacap's peculiarities, especially when compared to more recent offerings.
In the age of AI, I think clients no longer find it acceptable that engineers must spend many hours carefully tuning memory usage, image enhancement settings, and task granularity to prevent the PDFFREDocumentToImage and recognize actions from hanging or throwing memory errors.
Given that Windows transitioned to 64-bit architecture nearly two decades ago, I think continuing to run RRProcessor.exe as a 32-bit process—with its 4GB memory limitation—is outdated. Migrating to a 64-bit architecture would not only modernize Datacap but would also allow it to fully leverage the 64-bit ABBYY library.
This change would significantly reduce the need for trial-and-error configurations and free up engineers to focus on more valuable work.