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Status Planned for future release
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 15, 2023

IBM Runbook Automation (RBA) - conditional logic in the runbook/automation editor

Why is it useful? - Right now RBA allows no custom conditional logic to chain together runbooks/automations, which is handy to build end-to-end automation workflow.

Who would benefit from it? - All customers of RBA, everyone would be able to build more powerful end-to-end automation workflows.

How should it work? - In the GUI editor it could prompt for certain conditionals/loops which you can use to chain them together - could work with automations and/or runbooks.

 

Example:

Runbook: System Maintenance

Automation 1: Logged In Users

Automation 2: Restart DB

 

execute runbook > execute automation 1 > returns code 4 > don't execute automation 2

 

In the example above, when executing the runbook if the first runbook returns a certain status code we can conditonally decide not to restart the DB as it would affect logged in users - this would give more flexibility in building automation workflows.

Idea priority Medium