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Status Future consideration
Workspace WebSphere Liberty
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 29, 2025

Support for OAuth 2.1 in WebSphere Liberty

Support for OAuth 2.1 in Liberty for CloudPak Foundational Services to adopt. OAuth 2.1 is a more hardened version and it is critical for CPFS to support this for its adopters. CPFS uses Liberty as its OpenID connect provider and its based on OAuth 2.0. OAuth 2.1 is more secure and CPFS needs a way to enable this for security purposes and to support all its adopters.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Aug 11, 2025

    This would provide value for many products besides CP4BA. MCP has quickly become the de facto standard to add capabilities to AI agents. Providing OAuth 2.1 support for MCP will be key for products using Liberty.

  • Guest
    Jul 29, 2025

    Strengthens CP4BA’s position as a modern, pluggable automation platform ready for Agent AI-first use cases.

    Unlocks cross-sell opportunities between CP4BA and Watsonx Orchestrate

    Strong alignment with IBM’s broader Watsonx + Business Automation go-to-market narrative (Watsonx Orchestrate also announced MCP support at Think 2025 so this would be a good collaboration to bring wxO and CP4BA together. )

    Enables Agent AI enterprise grade ready architecture for next-generation, agent-centric automation ecosystems

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    Business Case : The automation landscape is rapidly evolving toward AI-driven agent-based automations, where Agents perform tasks by dynamically invoking tools and services. Industry standards like Model Context Protocol (MCP) are becoming foundational to enable this interoperability. Competitors and adjacent IBM solutions such as watsonx Orchestrate are adopting MCP as a default mechanism to integrate with automation platforms. Without MCP support, CP4BA risks falling behind market expectations and limiting its participation in next-generation, agent-centric automation ecosystems