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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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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...
2 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...
3 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, ...
5 months ago in Datacap 1 Future consideration

DATACAP - Suggestions in ICN lists

Searchs in ICN pannel lists will be more readables for users.At the moment when in a list there is an item like "Word1 Word2 Word3"If a user type : "Wo" there is a suggestion showing "Word1 Word2 Word3" If a user type "Word1" the suggestion is "Wo...
12 months ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Set SMSESSION=userid as a json header instead of using a cookie.

The utility the customer is using is much easier to set JSON headers than cookies, set SMSESSION=userid as a json and TMWeb is able to then use SSO after selecting the Application and station. Several of the customer's applications use this code t...
about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Allow scheduling of Rule runner threads

There may be times when you want certain tasks to only run during certain times - maybe off hours. It would be nice to either be able to configure threads to be enabled/disabled for set times instead of manually having to enable and disable. An ex...
about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Change path for temp folders that creates ABBYY engine during processing document/pages with action RecognizeToPDFOCR_A.

Currently, it is not possible for the user to set a custom temporary path for temp folders that creates ABBYY engine during processing document/pages with action RecognizeToPDFOCR_A. Default path is in the environment is "C:\Windows\Temp\ABBYY Fin...
about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Datacap Navigator verify client, vertical scrollbar batchtreeview should persist when marking a page for delete

Currently in Datacap Navigator Verify, the batchtreeview returns to the top of the list, once a page is marked for deletion, when the page is very low in the list.
about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Email actions such as 'imail' and 'Ewsmail' should have the ability to specify mailbox in case the account has multiple mailboxes.

The feature will help to specify the mailbox in case the account has multiple mailbox. This feature will give the flexibility of selecting the required mailbox.
about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Sorting Document classes in Datacap Desktop Batch view

List of document classes in Datacap Desktop Batch view are not sorted in alphabetical order. There is no configuration or settings available to do this in existing Datacap Desktop environment.
over 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration