What's new in IBM Datacap Version 9.1.9

November 2023 update

Added IBM Document Processing Extension

IBM Document Processing Extension is a simplified document processing solution. IBM Document Processing Extension uses AI and machine learning to classify, recognize, and extract metadata from business documents. IBM Document Processing Extension can connect to Datacap. Datacap application can send documents to Document Processing Extension for processing and then return the results to Datacap for user verification and data export steps. For more information, see IBM Document Processing Extension.

New features

Datacap health monitoring solution

Datacap health monitor is a solution to monitor various activities going on in a Datacap environment. The goal of this solution is to have a single place from where all the Datacap components can be monitored, and to generate alerts whenever any discrepancy is observed.

For more information see, Datacap Health Monitoring Solution

New batch of summary reports added to Report Viewer

For more information, see Standard reports

Exchange Integration Graph API support

The Office 365 Exchange integration in Datacap now supports Graph API with Exchange Modern Authentication.

Microsoft will disable Basic Authentication in Exchange Online soon, therefore Datacap applications must change to use the new Modern Authentication as soon as possible.

For more information on setting up Modern Authentication with Graph API, see Setting up Microsoft Azure app for authentication

Maintenance Manager improvements

We have introduced a database cleanup action to cleanup orphan records in the taskstatstable. The cleanup must be scheduled to run periodically during off-hours time.

For instructions on how to run database cleanup, see ProcessDeleteTaskStatsData

Datacap Document Processing improvements

Datacap now has improved integration with Automation Document Processing. Datacap now shows the status of batches that are sent to Automation Document Processing.

For details on enabling ADP Batch status in Datacap, see DocumentProcessingUpdateBatchStatus

Log Tools

A set of log collection and analysis tools are included with Datacap 9.1.9. These tools make it easy to collect logs from the various servers and analyze them.

For more information on log tools, see Setting up environment for using Log tools

The following enhancements have been included in Datacap 9.1.9 ifix 004

1. MVScan action library improvements.

   Enhance MVScan action library to allow ingestion of non-tiff type files when set_multipage_burst (True) is enabled. (For more information, refer the link here)

2. IBMCM actions library and the IBMCMExtended actions library improvements.

   Enhanced the IBMCM actions library and the IBMCMExtended actions library to allow a user to specify the location of the jvm.dll by declaring a custom variable "CM8JVMPath" for an application in Datacap Application Manager. (For more information, refer IBMCM actions library link here and IBMCMExtended actions library link here)

3. Smart Parameter Reference Guide improvements.

   Enhanced the action help by adding a Smart Parameter Reference Guide the RuleRunnerLogic action library. (For more information, refer the link here)

4. FileNet P8 action library improvements.

   Enhance FNP8_SearchAndDownload () to download the content of the document that contains illegal characters. (For more information, refer the link here)

5. Web Services action library improvements.

   Web Services actions enhanced with new actions, WsUploadDataEx () and WsUploadFileEx () to perform the ability to add a new file to an existing batch. (For more information, refer WsUploadDataEx () link here and WsUploadFileEx () link here)

New action libraries added

Three new actions are added to EWSMail action library.

• ex_login_O365_OAuth_Graph()
• ex_scan_graph()
• ex_logout_graph()

These new actions use Microsoft Graph APIs to scan mail folder, download mails and attachment details in the batch folder. All processed mails will be appropriately moved to existing folders as per setup. These new actions will enable clients to move from EWS protocol and use Microsoft graph APIs to process mails and attachments in the batch folder.

Two new actions are added to RecognitionOCRPL action library

• RecognizeFieldOCRPL - This field-level action performs recognition for a zoned field and retrieves associated field settings from the OCR/PL tab.
• RecognizeOMROCRPL- This field-level action performs recognition for a zoned OMR field and retrieves associated field settings from the OCR/PL tab of the recognition options in Datacap Studio.

DocumentProcessingUpdateBatchStatus action is added to DocumentProcessing action library

Deprecated, dropped in IBM Datacap version 9.1.9