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Workspace Cloud Pak for Business Automation
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Created on Apr 27, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Add ability to change pod timezone for Business Automation Studio similar to what is possible for Workflow Runtime

The Workflow Runtime pod allows a user to set the Timezone for the pod:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0.1?topic=parameters-business-automation-workflow-runtime-workstream-services
environment_config.timezone    Timezone of the Workflow server. The default value is Etc/UTC.

Runtime setting exists in yaml - https://github.com/icp4a/cert-kubernetes/blob/25.0.0/descriptors/patterns/ibm_cp4a_cr_production_FC_workflow.yaml

This setting changes the pod timezone for the server being used:

In BAW CR,
baw_configuration:
environment_config:
timezone: America/Winnipeg

Inside a BAW pod, say icp4adeploy01-bawins1-baw-server-0
sh-5.1$ hostname
icp4adeploy01-bawins1-baw-server-0
sh-5.1$ date
Wed Apr 8 13:38:42 CDT 2026
sh-5.1$

The authoring environment parameters does not list any timezone element. 
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/24.0.1?topic=parameters-business-automation-studio

Authoring - does not have an equivalent setting: https://github.com/icp4a/cert-kubernetes/blob/25.0.0/descriptors/patterns/ibm_cp4a_cr_production_FC_workflow_authoring.yaml

It does have the ability to change the JVM to use a different timezone, but this only changes the behavior inside the JVM and would not impact operator traces or other pod level timestamps.

We opened a case with Support and the product development team suggested the following as a possible workaround:
"
$ oc project
Using project "Project_Name" on server "Server_Name".

$ oc patch statefulset icp4adeploy01-bastudio-deployment -n Project_Name --type='json' -p='[
{
"op": "add",
"path": "/spec/template/spec/containers/0/env/-",
"value": {
"name": "TZ",
"value": "America/Winnipeg"
}
}
]'

statefulset.apps/icp4adeploy01-bastudio-deployment patched

$ date
Fri Apr 24 08:59:37 AM CDT 2026
"

However, I noticed icp4adeploy01-bastudio-deployment-1 was restarted once, then terminated, the started back, I tried to check and found the date was still show UTC time, not CDT time.

sh-5.1$ date
Fri Apr 24 14:06:12 UTC 2026
sh-5.1$ hostname
icp4adeploy01-bastudio-deployment-1"

This is expected behavior, so the provided workaround would have to be re-applied for each pod restart. We would like to see that a similar parameter get added to the Business Automation Studio to allow pod locale setting to be configured at the CR level such that the value could be controlled like in a Runtime.

Idea priority High

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