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Recurrence Pattern, Description, Scheduled/Unscheduled and Calendar View for Maintenance Blackouts

This idea is to introduce a Recurrence Pattern, Reminders, Description, Scheduled/Unscheduled and a Calendar View for Maintenance Blackouts. Recurrence Pattern: When you click 'Create Maintenance Blackout' it allows you to schedule the date & ...
4 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 4 Planned for future release

Display logs in ZOS agent started task in EBCIDC or display nothing

Any ASCII or other (unreadable) data that is not EBCIDC should be prevented from ending up in the SDSF(spool). This IBM Idea has been opened to track the work being done by product development to prevent the unreadable / garbage data, related to t...
8 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Planned for future release

Additional Authentication methods for Secret Store - LDAP

Hello everyone, current Secret store in UCD supports connection to Vault with RoleId bases authentication. I would like to ask if it would be possible to extend the authentication methods by LDAP (https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/auth/ld...
9 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Planned for future release

Provide documented API to create or update Authentication and Authorization Realm

To automate the configuration of UCD server we are trying to do the configuration using Ansible playbook so that it will be consistent in all UCD servers. Currently documented CLI is not available to to create or update Authentication and Authoriz...
11 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

Enhance Application Process Required Role

Currently application processes can be configured so that a required role is needed to run the process. Unfortunately this is limited to a single role. We currently have a range of platform roles for seniority in platform teams that work across mu...
11 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 9 Planned for future release

Use systemd to run UCD agent as a service in Linux servers

We have been using init.d to run our UCD agents as service in our Linux servers, but systemd could be used as an alertnative of init.d because it is a backward compatibility for RHEL 7 or above servers.
about 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

Deploy data sets to multiple target PDS

For deployment to production of our online load modules we have a situation where two different target PDS are involved, one for runtime (GITZ.PR2.ONLINE.LOAD)(and on for nightly deployments (GITZ.PR2.NEW.ONLINE.LOAD). When deploying to PR the use...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Planned for future release

Upgrade Agent have limitation of simultaneous upgrades to 10 or fewer Agent - which is problematic if customer have 50.000 UCD Agents to upgrade

Upgrade Agent feature have limitation described on documentation as: "Updating many agents simultaneously can have a significant affect the server. As a rule-of-thumb, limit the number of simultaneous upgrades to 10 or fewer." Which is problematic...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

Fail Fast External Approval Process

In our testing of the External Approval Process we have seen that it waits until the scheduled deployment time to execute the External Approval Process. We would like to be able to configure it so that the External Approval Process executes immedi...
almost 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

UCD Datastage plugin Version : 9.998792 needs to be enhanced

UCD Datastage plugin Version : 9.998792 is not working as expected and it is intermittently failing in processing datastage import requests.But it is not exiting instead it is continuing with the next set of import request. We are using the Datas...
over 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 10 Planned for future release