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Please use the following category to raise ideas for these offerings for all environments (traditional on premises, containers, on cloud):

  • Cloud Pak for Business Automation - including Business Automation Studio and App Designer, Business Automation Insights

  • Business Automation Workflow (BAW) - including BAW, Business Process Manager, Workstream Services, Business Performance Center, Advanced Case Management

  • Content Services - FileNet Content Manager

  • Content Services - Content Manager OnDemand

  • Content Services - Daeja Virtual Viewer

  • Content Services - Navigator

  • Content Services - Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files

  • Content Services - Content Collector for SAP

  • Content Services - Enterprise Records

  • Content Services - Content Manager (CM8)

  • Datacap

  • Automation Document Processing

  • Automation Decision Services (ADS)

  • Operational Decision Manager

  • Robotic Process Automation

  • Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

  • Blueworks Live

  • Business Automation Manager Open Edition

  • IBM Process Mining


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.


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Status Future consideration
Workspace Business Automation Workflow
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 30, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

When upgrading BAW, Installation Manager should fail if file permission settings prevent the profiles from being updated.

I recently did an upgrade to BAW, and I ran into a situation where Installation Manager ended with warnings, saying "Configuration errors were detected during the installation."

In a support case, we determined that this was because of our unusual setup where different profiles ($install_root/profiles/*) are owned and run by different linux user IDs than the owner of the install root, and I forgot to change it so that all files were owned by the same ID.

Because the ID running installation manager didn't have write permissions to the subdirectories in $install_root/profiles, the profiles didn't really update and other tasks such as osgiCfgInit.sh didn't work properly. This caused required long-running BAW update tasks that were supposed to run when the websphere deployment manager started up to not do so. I ultimately fixed the issue by rolling back, changing the file permissions so that everything was owned by one ID, and redoing the upgrade.

My suggestion is to make it so that if file permissions prevent files in the profiles subdirectories from being updated, or if osgiCfgInit.sh fails with an error 15 when installation manager runs it, installation manager would detect this, consider the install a failure and roll it back, instead of it being considered successful with warnings.

Idea priority Medium

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