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Workspace IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps
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Created on Sep 1, 2025

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add a action capability to run a javascript in RBA

please add action capability to RBA , so you can manipulate data/variables, in order to comply with a next action's input requirement

the idea would be to allow for Javascript code to me added.
ideally in a required format. and an expected output condition.
e.g. "echo Key=Value"
or
"echo Key1=Value Key2=Value"

e.g.

Action ONE exposes a value MYHOSTNAME

but Action 2 (E.g. ansible actions) require a key/value hostname: MYHOSTNAME

without a javascript to convert this. you would need to run a ssh session to do

e.g.

#!/bin/bash
 # Print the formatted output 
echo "HOSTNAME: $my_input"

which is kinda ridiculous to do..

there are other examples where e.g. an HTTP API outputs a JSON with multiple data/variables.
and you would like to have these multiple variables as input for a next action

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Sep 2, 2025

    Highly emphasizing this request. The common approach to use Ansible Playbooks as actions for a runbook requires a json structure for extraVariables and without this function we are not able to pass any event/alert fields to the the playbook as parameters. only using the workhwoud of an echoing ssh command build the json structure for us, allows us yet to pass those event field data properly to Ansible.

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