What's new in 24.0.1

What changed in interim fix 6 - December 2025

The following change is introduced in December 2025.

Optimize compute resource usage and reduce costs

The cp4a-scale-resources.sh script is a new resource management tool that is designed to conserve compute resources and minimize the operational costs of Cloud Pak for Business Automation deployments. Learn more...

What changed in interim fix 4 - June 2025

Due to the refresh of interim fix 2 in May, interim fix 3 is passed over. For more information, see What changed in interim fix 2 - April 2025.

The 24.0.1 interim fix 4 readme file lists all the defects that are fixed and provides pointers on how to install it and how to upgrade to it. For more information, see the Cloud Pak for Business Automation download document .

The following changes are introduced in June 2025.

Changes to dependent software

The following table highlights the changes that Cloud Pak for Business Automation 24.0.1-IF004 brings compared to the previous interim fix.

Table 1. Differences between dependent software in 24.0.1-IF004 and 24.0.1-IF002.

Dependent operator catalogs	24.0.1-IF004	24.0.1-IF002
Cloud Pak foundational services	4.12	4.11

IBM Storage Fusion recipes now support backup and restore for IBM Automation Decision Services and IBM Operational Decision Manager

You can now use IBM Storage Fusion recipes for IBM Automation Decision Services and IBM Operational Decision Manager to back up and restore data from your storage systems, helping you maintain and migrate data between environments while saving time and preventing potential data loss.  Learn more...

What changed in interim fix 2 - April 2025

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The interim fix readme file lists all the defects that are fixed and provides pointers on how to install it and how to upgrade to it. For more information, see the Cloud Pak for Business Automation download document .

The following changes are introduced in April 2025.

Changes to dependent software

The following table highlights the major changes that Cloud Pak for Business Automation 24.0.1-IF002 brings compared to the previous interim fix.

Table 2. Differences between dependent software in 24.0.1-IF002 and 24.0.1-IF001.

Dependent operator catalogs	24.0.1-IF002	24.0.1-IF001
Cloud Pak foundational services	4.11	4.10

What changed in interim fix 1 - February 2025

The interim fix readme file lists all the defects that are fixed and provides pointers on how to install it and how to upgrade to it. For more information, see the Cloud Pak for Business Automation download document .

The following changes are introduced in February 2025.

• Changes to dependent software
• Remove the need to create a service account manually for starter deployments

Changes to dependent software

The following table highlights the major changes that Cloud Pak for Business Automation 24.0.1-IF001 brings compared to the GA version.

Table 3. Differences between dependent software in 24.0.1-IF001 and 24.0.1.

Dependent operator catalogs	24.0.1-IF001	24.0.1
Cloud Pak foundational services	4.10	4.9

Remove the need to create a service account manually for starter deployments

You no longer need to create the ibm-cp4ba-anyuid service account manually before you run the cp4a-clusteradmin-setup.sh script to set up the cluster for your CP4BA multi-pattern starter deployments.  Learn more...

Supported operating environments

The following SOE changes are introduced in 24.0.1.

• Software Product Compatibility Report (SPCR)
• Changes to dependent software

Software Product Compatibility Report (SPCR)

The system requirements information is available through the SPCR website.

You can generate specific reports for each release that include the supported operating system, server virtualization environments, and software prerequisites.  Learn more .

• To find information on the supported versions of Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform, open the rendered report for 24.0.1 and go to the Containers tab.
• To find information on the supported databases, open the rendered report for 24.0.1 and go to the Supported Software tab, and then click Databases.

For more information about the system requirements of the Cloud Pak foundational services, see hardware requirements .

Changes to dependent software

The following table highlights the major changes that Cloud Pak for Business Automation 24.0.1 brings compared to the previous version.

Table 4. Differences between dependent software in 24.0.1 and 24.0.0.

Dependent operator catalogs	24.0.1	24.0.0
Cloud Pak foundational services	4.9	4.6
EDB Postgres	1.22.5	1.18.12
License Manager	4.2.8	4.2.4
Certificate Manager	4.2.8	4.2.4
Flink	2.0.4	2.0.3

Install

The Cloud Pak for Business Automation download document provides pointers on how to install the new version and the command to clone the 24.0.1 cert-kubernetes repository. The following changes are introduced in 24.0.1.

• User-based license metrics for Content services
• Take advantage of a new script to setup an air-gap (offline) configuration

User-based license metrics for Content services

You can now track your CP4BA deployments that include FileNet® Content Manager based on user-focused license agreements. Previously, the sc_deployment_fncm_license parameter had valid values of production, non-production, and user. However when you chose user, IBM® License Service did not capture the user activity. In 24.0.1, you can now choose to set the value of this parameter to concurrent-user or authorized-user, and the metrics of the users are shown in the IBM License Service.

The user license type that you choose affects the measurement ratio that is used to determine the licensing cost.  Learn more...

Take advantage of a new script to setup an air-gap (offline) configuration

Instead of configuring an offline environment on a Bastion host manually, you can now run a script.  Learn more...

The new cp4a-airgap-mirroring-images.sh script does the following jobs:

• Downloads the Cloud Pak for Business Automation CASE files.
• Generates the mirror manifests that are needed for the mirroring process.
• Mirrors the images from the IBM entitled registry to a private registry.
• Logs all the output from each ibm-pak command.

Upgrade

The following support is provided in 24.0.1.

• Upgrade from Cloud Pak for Business Automation 24.0.0
• Upgrade to the newest interim fix is always supported when it becomes available

Upgrade from Cloud Pak for Business Automation 24.0.0

You can upgrade your Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) 24.0.0 production deployments to 24.0.1.

• During an upgrade, if the custom resource parameter sc_deployment_fncm_license is set to user, then you can change the value to concurrent-user or authorized-user to send user metrics to the IBM License Service. For more information, see User-based license metrics for Content services and Upgrading IBM FileNet Content Manager.

For earlier versions than 24.0.0, you must upgrade them to 24.0.0 or an interim fix of 24.0.0 before you upgrade to 24.0.1.  Learn more...

Upgrade to the newest interim fix is always supported when it becomes available

Interim fixes are code updates to resolve security vulnerabilities. An interim fix readme file lists all the defects that are fixed and provides pointers on how to install it and how to upgrade to it. For more information, see the Cloud Pak for Business Automation download document .

Security and compliance

The following change is introduced in December 2024.

New GPG public key to help verify the integrity of container images

From December 2024, a new private key is used to sign the Cloud Pak for Business Automation container images before they are pushed to the IBM entitled registry. You can check that the images you pull from this registry are authentic and can be trusted by using the GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) public key.  Learn more...

Workflow automation new features and enhancements

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in workflow automations

• Leverage powerful enterprise-grade foundation models such as the IBM Granite family, Llama, and Mixtral to reduce your total cost of ownership (TOC) by automatically generating content. Use cases include advertisement, job or product descriptions, email templates, and triaging support tickets with notifications and redirects. Automate labor-intensive content generation as part of your business-critical workflow automations with state-of-the-art AI. Learn more...
•  Technology preview  Integrate a vast variety of watsonx Orchestrate skills that can leverage 1000+ out-of-the-box skills with common applications such as Gmail, Box, Twilio, Salesforce, Workday, Outlook in your workflow automations. Reduce your operational costs by using existing watsonx Orchestrate skills to develop your custom solutions.
•  Technology preview  Use the guided experience with the new IBM Workflow Assistant powered by watsonx.ai to find, understand, and complete tasks in Workplace. The assistant helps you filter tasks, ask questions about tasks, create task summaries, manage teams, and generate content such as emails, feedback, and descriptions.

If you're interested in participating in the technology preview, contact your IBM representative to sign up. Limited seats are available.

Easily move your inflight instances from Business Automation Workflow to Cloud Pak for Business Automation

When you move from Business Automation Workflow 24.0.1.0 (Standard edition) to Cloud Pak for Business Automation 24.0.1, you can now use your process and case instance databases from the traditional environment and continue running and completing your inflight instances in Cloud Pak for Business Automation without any loss of data.  Learn more...

Integration enhancements for workflow automations and their external systems

• You can now invoke and expose REST services that use generic complex objects with arbitrary properties in your workflow automations. This enhancement can be useful in situations where complex property types are not known at authoring time. At run time, you can make dynamic changes to the generic complex objects without any need to change or create a new version of your workflow automation. Learn more...
• Discover and invoke web service operations of document literal wrapper style even when the input message does not reference the external service’s operation name. Learn more...
• In Workflow Designer, you can now specify an OAuth token URL in the binding of your external REST service. Learn more...

CI/CD pipeline enhancements for deployment of workflow automations

• Integrate Workflow with JFrog artifactory to enable developers to store automation version packages in a centralized repository and monitor builds and deployments in real time. Learn more...
• Workflow export and deployment packages can now include artifacts with file types that explicitly indicate their content. This enhancement facilitates CI/CD pipeline scanning tools to accurately identify the content type of each artifact. Learn more...

Build workflow automations more easily in Workflow Designer

• You can now use new customizable task pages that are based on the common UI framework shared by case, process tasks and Workplace. These pages include customizable task lists that provide additional filters based on case data. The additional filters can help users focus on relevant tasks instead of manually searching through the entire list of tasks. Learn more...
• You can now use common case operations, including file documents to a case, find activities for a case, get the current case stage, and get related cases more easily as part of your workflows, to improve your productivity when you build your process or case pages. Learn more...

Decision management new features and enhancements

Automation Decision Services

• Upgrading decision services that are created in earlier versions of Automation Decision Services is made easier. Learn more...
• Better tailored experience in the rule editor for terms and phrases. Learn more...
• Support of prompt input and a generated output as a training example for generative AI. Learn more...
• Easier to integrate generative AI into decision models. Learn more...
• You can now share your changes with your collaborators without connecting decision automations to the remote repository. Connecting to a remote repository can be useful when you plan to set up a custom CI/CD stack, or if you want to access to the remote repository by using tools that are external to Automation Decision Services. Learn more...

Operational Decision Manager

For information about all new features in Operational Decision Manager 9.0.0.1, see the What's new .

• Operational Decision Manager now supports container lifecycle. Learn more...
• Improved Decision Server Runtime load balancing.

  Decision Server Runtime now uses the Least Connections algorithm to balance load instead of the previously used Round Robin algorithm.

• Improved rule analysis in Rule Designer. Learn more .
• Improved Decision Center Business console user experience. Learn more .
• Better management of releases and activities in decision services in the Business console. Learn more .

Business insights new features and enhancements

User-defined monitoring source used to filter existing sources

User-defined monitoring sources, based on existing monitoring sources, can now be created and are available for use in all dashboards rather than being limited to an individual dashboard. These custom sources enable you to filter data views and reuse the filtered views across multiple dashboards and charts. Learn more...

Dashboards can be displayed in an external web application

Business Performance Center dashboards and charts can now be embedded within an external web application using an iFrame. The dashboard updates in real time as long as your Business Performance Center login session remains active. This also applies to web applications running in a different cluster. Learn more...

Share data tables more easily

When you want to share the data from a data table, you can now export the contents in .csv format. Learn more...