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Obtain request user email

We are developing an external approval process to validate deployment requests. If the validation fails, we want to send an email notification to the requesting user, as deployments can be scheduled. However, we discovered that the user's email is...
8 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Delivered

Prevent duplicate instance of UrbanCode Deploy server process startup

UrbanCode Deploy server if started while a process is already it will start another process and then keep going down. Prevent duplicate instance of UrbanCode Deploy server process startup
10 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Delivered

Secure property for certificate privsate key password

Certficate private key password (tomcat) currently has to store in plain text in either the server.xml file or the installed.properties file. This should be able to encrypted in the secure-installed.properties files. Please see case TS016995445 fo...
12 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Delivered

Version of imported component

We are working in a UCD test environment where we mainly work and improve one component with its processes. When we are done for the sprint we export this component and store it in git. The we import this component in prod, there it would be nice ...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Delivered

Extend "Role Mappings" in the "Map Users and Groups to Roles for Application" step of UCD to support more than 5 arguments.

WAS supports more arguments and UCD chops off anything after 5. This is causing issues in the deployment cycle and is a limitation to our processes. We are fully aware of how the configuration works in WAS Admin console and WAS Admin scripting, bu...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Delivered

API(s) to get {taskId} using only applicationProcessRequest Id

Email approvals do not work outside private network. I want to use APIs to create a mobile approval process by sending the requests to a broker installed in the private network. All I have to work with is the applicationProcessRequest ID for which...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Delivered

UCD Plugin for GHA is missing a feature to upload files from runner path location to a new component version. This functionality is in the existing jenkins plugin.

After you compile your code you want to push it to code station. Right now you plugin doesn't cover that functionality. Reference your jenkins plugin. You need fields for "Base Artifact Directory",Include, exclude, and Version Properties
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Delivered

Manual Tasks/Approval tasks should support use of properties in comment prompt

Currently Manual Tasks/Approval tasks do not support use of properties in comment prompt. If we can pass properties then it will be easy to identify for which version/snapshot the approval is needed. We understand that in the notification template...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Delivered

SQL JDBC plugin can be enhanced to support inline SQL instead of SQL script file

Currently the SQL JDBC plugin step "Execute SQL script" does not support inline SQL. Instead we have to provide the script in a file. So there is a overhead to create the file and then delete the script file after execution. Hence it will be easie...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Delivered

adjust file permissions for the secured-installed.properties file on the deploy server

The `/<UCD_INSTALL_HOME>/conf/server/secured-installed.properties` file permissions is to open, at 0644. Changing this to 0600 or 0640 ends up reverting back to 0644 once the server or the deploy server application is restart. Since this fil...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Delivered