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UI improvements to help connect deployments to versions

Our users have compained about it being hard to see which version is being processed in a deployment. This of course can be found in the Manifest tab but it would be better to see it at the top of the deployment log tab. It would also be good to b...
9 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Future consideration

Reporting and cleanup of agents

We name nearly all agents for the hostname. We have hosts get retired but the agent still shows in the console as offline. We currently have inexact and processes to check ServiceNow to see if it's retired, ,and then come back to see for those tha...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Future consideration

Implementing a Zero Downtime Upgrade Mechanism for IBM Services

Currently, IBM’s upgrade process for certain services requires downtime, even in high-availability (HA) setups, due to shared database and filesystem dependencies. This limitation affects critical business operations, leading to potential service ...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Future consideration

UCD Packaging v2 vs UCD Packaging v1 (Creating sidefiles for Fault Analyzer for Assembler-modules, UCD Package format V2 not working properly)

When running UCD packaging v1 the variable file mentioned above (sidefile) is taken care of properly, gets copied to zOS the correct way and can be used as is. When running UCD packaging v2 the variable file mentioned above (sidefile) is NOT taken...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Future consideration

Enhanced Dashboard Customization for Team-Specific Views

We appreciate the introduction of the Enhanced Dashboard in DevOps Deploy v8.1.0 , which provides comprehensive insights into deployment health, agent utilization, and deployment schedules. However, from a user perspective, the current implementat...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Future consideration

Rest API and download option for Java packages from UCD UI

As Java are managed on UCD UI, if we have a rest api to download. this will give us an option to download and use java wherever we want.Also, if we can download option on UCD UI for Java to be downloaded
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Future consideration

"Download All" button to download version placed in an external repository

UCD displays a "Download All" button to downlad the zip version file and be able to inspect it, but it only works if the version is stored in Codestation. When the version is stores in an external repository, it only downloads an xml metadata file...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Future consideration

Possible usage PaaS- (instead of IaaS / VM) to run UCD Application server

Currently we are using Azure Iaas for UCD Infrastructure as below Azure Linux VM (IaaS) with RHEL7 for License server and RHEL for UCD server. Azure Storage account to store shared files (appdata) which is mounted to VM Azure MS SQL as database We...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Future consideration

Add to the "Set Resources Property" the data type of List of Strings

We have process that must run a step on many different artifacts on a host. At this time we have to write shell code to find all the artifacts on a host. Which then must be filtered with hard coded values to exclude some hits. All this would be ma...
almost 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Future consideration

SAML authentication not available

Hello, Currently our urbancode tools are using the siteminder authentication which will be changed to SAML authentication within couple of months, we had searched on the IBM documentation and on the internet for the process to integrate urbancode ...
almost 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Build Future consideration