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IBM Datacap Version 9.1.6 Release Notes

Release Notes


Abstract

IBM Datacap is a complete solution for document and data capture. Datacap scans, classifies, recognizes, validates, verifies, and exports data and document images quickly, accurately and cost effectively.

Content

What's new in Datacap 9.1.6

Fix list

Known Issues, limitations, solutions

What's new in Datacap 9.1.6

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Fix list

List of APARs created in previous releases ported into Datacap 9.1.6 release

APAR #

ID

Component

Description

IO26301

185328

Actions/RRunner

Click n key established zones are being overwritten in Fingerprints when user scans other similar images.

IO26411

185226

Datacap Web

When user clicks on a batch tab in Verify panel, copies the Job Monitor URL, then selects a next batch in tmweb, an error is appeared. After accepting the error message, this batch displays images from the previous batch in a new tab.

IO26429

186013

Datacap Navigator

User cannot save field data when editor type is "Editable entry list" (StartPanel & FieldDetailPanel).

IO26430

182094

Datacep Navigator

When user clicks multiple times on an Indexing job link in the left side of the ICN screen, multiple Verify tabs are opened instead one tab. It prevents the user from using the right Verify panel to index.

IO26431

182236

Datacap Navigator

Physical scanning takes longer time when attempting to scan batches of more than 300 pages with Daeja Pro Viewer in Datacap Navigator.

IO26549

185593

Datacap Desktop

When user launches any application in Datacap Desktop or Job Monitor and then selects any column item in FIELD drop down menu + enter a filter criteria in the By field, these values are stored and reused even when the user selects or starts another application.

IO26647

185246

FastDoc

After user created new fields in Datacap Fastdoc(Admin), fastdoc crashes when user enters non alpha numeric characters in the Name field.

IO26656

183874

Application Manager

When user sets English (United Kingdom) under Regions in Control Panel and Set SystemLocale under Locale in Application Manager for the application, system displays Calculated date.

IO26697

185265

Outlook

When user saves an Outook email with extension-less attachment and configure Datacap application (with action OutlookMessageToImageAndAttachment() in PageID with .eml extension by default), the attached file extension is changed to .file type.

IO26702

185266

Outlook

When user saves an Outook email with extension-less attachment and configure Datacap application (with action OutlookMessageToImageAndAttachment() in PageID with .eml extension by default), it fails to convert the body of the email into a TIFF image if the .eml file was created as type "text/plain" in the email exchange server inbox.

IO26710

185247

FastDoc

After user created new Fastdoc Application shortcuts that become inactive (greyed out) and do not allow the user to vscan using the vscan shortcut buttons.

IO26711 

186081

Datacap Web

When user tries to select a value under Station column in Job Monitor tab, Datacap Web client shows an error: "Error received from aTM component'.

IO26721

186082

Datacap Desktop

When Datacap Desktop looses connection with the Taskmaster server, the application crashes without any message. This was found when the client was idle for about 15-20 minutes.

IO26741

185250

Misc

The standard variable DCO.Variable("SelectedDCONodes") is not generated in Datacap Desktop. The variable is generated at batch level and stores the nodes selected on the Batch View when the additional task button was pressed.

IO26768

186501

Datacap Desktop

When user selects an image marking for deletion, and submit, then pick another image in the batch tree view, then goes back to selecting the "mark for delete" images and notice its data panel is blank.

IO26770

185343

Datacap Navigator

In Datacap Navigator>Job Monitor>Edit Job Properties window, when user enters text manually a default blank space is already placed at the beginning of the edit box, unless remove that does not allow to find the operator task.

IO26771

185920

Datacap Web

When processing documents in Datacap Web Client using Verify panel, some of the fields are displayed with large fonts that displays like zoomed out texts.

IO26775

186079

Datacap Web

When user runs a filter applied on custom column in Datacap Web client Job monitor an error occurs: "Error received from aTM component. Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

IO26777

185248

Datacap Desktop

When user selects large number of images to delete in Datacap Desktop, Scan panel results unresponsiveness and exceptions.

IO26778

185350

Datacap Navigator

When user selects Sticky Field option in Datacap Navigator Verify panel that fails to persist its value when launched in the second Verify panel for the same batch.

IO26781

185349

Datacap Navigator

After configured the view mode in Datacap Navigator, the configuration fails when user launches a client with separate viewer window initially.

IO26786

185402

Datacap Navigator

In Datacap Navigator, when the task list is switched between two shortcuts the sort column and sort order, it is not preserved.

IO26790

185456

Recognition

In OCRA Setting if the setting are like y_EnableTextExtractionMode = true and y_EnableAggressiveTextExtraction = false then y_EnableTextExtractionMode is not reset to False.

IO26800

185241

Actions/Split

When physical images in the assigned source folder are not accessible, Split.SplitBatch action continues to create child batches without keeping images in the batch folder.

IO26802

185482

Taskmaster Services

If user’s bind password contains a '/' that causes LLLDAP connection issues and unsuccessful login.

IO26805

185412

Actions/Document Analytics

When user has two different extractors, which return the same data, the positions in the layout xml file get extracted for one extractor entities only.

IO26808

185859

Datacap Desktop

When batch is set for station id 00x and pending at indexing task, Datacap Desktop fails to display batch with Manual Indexing shortcut and pending verify when StationIDs used are numbers prefixed with a zero like '001'.

IO26813 

185542

Actions/Validations

The Validations.DeleteSelectedChars() action fails to remove spaces or special characters and returns TRUE in the logs which is inaccurate.

IO26841

185856

Datacap Desktop

In Datacap Desktop Application, if user scans more than 99 pages which seems to be the cutoff, a message is displayed and it stops scanning more pages.

IO26910

186284

Recognition Engine

The user has a specific document when the OCR/A Recognize action is called. While the action returns true, an exception "GetBlockText Exception" is generated in the log for the Recognize action for the specific image.

IO26916

185405

Datacap Navigator

While scanning in Datacap Navigator application, user tries to remove a page in batch tree view, intermittently its hangs and chrome browser shows "Aw Snap!" message.

IO26924

186678

Recognition/Recog OCRS Scansoft

OCR_SR recognize action misses recognizing printed Japanese letters and or text intermittently.

IO26925

186685

Datacap Navigator

In Datacap Navigator, when user marks zones manually for line item fields in the Verify screen, the zones read the values correctly in to the fields, but if the user double-clicks on the same field, the spaces in the field are removed.

IO26926

186506

Actions/Recog_Shared

The action CreateCCOFromLayout first needs recognition to be run to create a XML. If the XML does not exist because the application has not run recognition, then the action logs an exception.

IO26929

186223

Rulesets/Enhance Images

Specific users’ images crash in any Datacap tool (for example, Datacap Studio, Datacap Desktop, Rulerunner) when using image enhance on user’s specific TIFF images.

IO26932

186792

Recognition Engine

The OCR_A.RecognizeTopDFCOCR_A() action fails to create a PDF with the engine error documented in the task rrs log.

IO26933

186769

Taskmaster Services

In the Datacap Server Manager with LLLDAP authentication system, when user searches in the active directory and if two search results are resulted. Then TMS fails to authenticate the user.

IO26941

186672

Datacap Navigator

In Datacap Navigator Web Scan client, the uploaded image file name is intermittently inaccurate when user inserts or removes pages.

IO26946

185851

Taskmaster Services

Datacap Taskmaster server services becomes unresponsive and user is unable to log in to Datacap Navigator applications when the operating system achieves high CPU utilization.

IO26948

186455

Datacap Navigator

In Datacap Navigator application, when the scan task is configured for local profile with file transfer mode enabled, the IMAGEFILE variable in the data file is not accurately updated.

IO26952

187093

Datacap Desktop

Datacap Desktop fails to display the right number of batches in Job Monitor that matches the number selected by a user in the "Items per page" drop down list.

IO26962

187996

Datacap Navigator

When user adds "Scan Document" function in custom ICN menu that returns a new page that is blank with no browse option but with Scan and Cancel buttons.

IO26993

187294

Datacap Desktop

Datacap Desktop Application shows the error: "Only one batch at a time can be run. Please restart dcDesktop" when user scans, submits or cancels in one application and then switches to another application in the drop down list.

IO26994

187108

Datacap Navigator

Automatic Upload does not work if "Datacap Main page" feature is not the ICN desktop default feature.

IO27013

187628

Datacap Navigator

Scan button and scanner field remain disabled for the first time when launch ActiveX scan the Datacap Navigator.

IO27046

187742

Datacap Navigator

In Datacap Navigator application, user is unable to see any validation error message after editing fields in Verify task and clicking the “Run Validations” button.

IO27068

187794

Datacap Navigator

In Datacap Navigator, when applying save filter in Job monitor shows an error, "Http Response Code : 404 Response Message".

 

185457

Development Tools/Application Manager

Datacap tabs.xml needs to be updated with the proper string en-GB instead of en-UK to properly convert dates.

185949 Outlook OutlookMessageToImageAndAttachment() action to support RTL functionality.

Known issues, limitations, solutions

Other previous issues:

Image displaying issue with Daeja virtual viewer: Some scanned JPEG images are not displayed correctly in Datacap Navigator with Daeja virtual viewer, because the problem is related to scanner hard driver.

Datacap Desktop application unavailable: Creation of custom start batch panel functionality in DcDesktop application is no longer available in 9.x even though the class exists in the DcDesktop custom panels SDK.

Original position after refreshing or deleting in job monitor: The selected item is remained same after clicking "Refresh" button in Job monitor. If the selected item is deleted by other user, the selection goes to the first item in Job monitor.

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Document Information

Modified date:
08 September 2020

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