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Urbancode Agents java management in one click

As we can see there is a new feature introduced in UrbanCode UI starting from v7.2.3 where java can be managed for agents. There are multiple steps to install and set up java for an agent such as first install the java in agent, then set the java ...
6 days ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Under review

Urbancode agent relays java management via UI

As we can see there is a java management feature starting from v7.2.3 via UrbanCode UI for agents.The same way it will be good to have a feature where we can manage the java for agent relays as well. This will help us to upgrade the java of relays...
6 days ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Planned for future release

Support FIPS 140-2 for Websphere Liberty (Java 17 or later) on Windows OS

Support FIPS(The Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 for Websphere Liberty with IBM Semeru Runtime Java 17 or later on Windows OS. Liberty has already supported it on RHEL platform, but not on Windows. If not, Liberty cannot win all pla...
3 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

Agent unavailable status for online agents to allow for controlled agent shut down

At the moment we need to check if an agent is licenced before stopping it to ensure there are no active deployments, often having to remove agents from agent pools to ensure no further deployments start. This idea is to be able to "wind down" an a...
6 days ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Needs more information

Allow custom location for WAS backups

At the moment backups are stored in ~/.wsa/backups . This is not a safe default - if the directory for the home user is on a small disk, there is risk that the disk will fill up or the backup would fail. The backup location should be customizeable...
4 days ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Under review

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...
4 days ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Submitted

AES256 encryption key for encryption.keystore

The encryption key generated in encryption.keystore is of "aes128" encryption. There is more complex encryption available in AES 256 encryption. Since urbancode have highly confidential data it will be good to have the data encryption using AES 25...
19 days ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Under review

Source config plugin with Identity token varaiable for Artifactory

Currently we are authenticating Artifactory using API key, we need to start transitioning to the use of Identity Tokens before end of Q3 2023 as this is a new feature by Artifactory team. So we need our source config plugin to have Identity token ...
6 days ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Under review

Create documentation for UCD plugins for z/OS

The documentation of the UCD plugins for z/OS is very poor, so we need to create our processes on try-and-error basis. The videos placed on the community are very good but, the plugins should have its own complete documentation, otherwise we are p...
about 2 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Not under consideration