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Status Under review
Workspace IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 2, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Enable Service Composer to expose values exported by an Ansible Job Template activity (via set_stats artifacts) as linkable output parameters for downstream activities, matching the existing behavior of Terraform and Helm activities.

Description:
In Service Composer (IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4.11.1, Infrastructure Automation), only Terraform and Helm activities publish output parameters that can be linked to downstream activities. The Ansible Job Template activity has input parameters only; values a playbook exports via set_stats are returned by AAP as the job's artifacts object but are never captured into the service context, so no expression can consume them in a later activity.

Request:
Capture the AAP job artifacts object as read-only output parameters of the Ansible Job Template activity, visible in the Parameters tab and available through Link Parameters for downstream activities, consistent with existing Terraform/Helm output linking.

Use case:
Sequential Ansible job templates in one service: Node 1 retrieves data and exports it with set_stats; Node 2 receives it as an extra variable.

Workaround and limitation:
Combining templates into an AAP workflow job template launched from Service Composer. This requires a dedicated workflow for every template combination, producing an unmanageable number of templates and moving orchestration logic out of Service Composer.

Idea priority Urgent

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