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Acquire Lock - Update Process Step to allow a Switch if Lock exists

This request is to update the Acquire Lock process step to allow branching paths depending on if the lock already exists. The general idea is, if the lock has been created by another process, we would like a way to fail out the process. This would...
10 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy

Looking for API to get the agents details from particular component

Support ticket - TS019698647 I am currently working on automating a deployment pipeline. As part of this automation, I want to ensure that the jenkins deployment aborts if the target agent (mapped under the component used) is offline. To implement...
11 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy / Deploy Not under consideration

Create Generic Process Step for Locking Snapshots

This request is to create a generic process that can lock a snapshot (versions and configuration) on a particular application. As a requirement for audit, all production deployments must lock their snapshot before deploying. Using an orchestration...
11 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy

To pass a property as a required field dynamically,

It will be helpful to pass values dynamically in our component process properties
11 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Not under consideration

Add ddvipa support for ucd z/OS agent

Today ucd agent doesn't have ddvipa support according to TS019560454. For the maintainability it would be good to have possibility to set up z/os ucd agent with ddvipa support. Ddvipa has possibilities to quickly switch over traffic to other agent...
11 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

Mandatory Version Selection when starting UCD Deployment

While working on the UCD deployments, we have noticed that it is possible to run a deploy process without adding a component version. This is usually done unintentionally. So the idea here is to make the version selection a mandatory process by ei...
11 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Not under consideration

User Report

It would be nice to be able to create a report that provides a list of all ADs/users so we could develop a customer-based gold copy email distribution list to easily communicate valuable information as not everyone reads the banner updates.
12 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Functionality already exists

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...
12 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Future consideration

Adding Snapshot and Description of the deployment request process columns in the Reports- Deployment Detail

Our External audit team needs proof of deployments where they verify the snapshot deployed in QA environment of an application is the same deployed in Production environment. Also, we always input the change ticket number in the description sectio...
12 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy

Inquiry on Active Deployments on Agent at Specific Timestamp Checking Parallel Deployments/ Agent to be used

This is our requirement: Can we run/get a report for UCD usage with details for the past 12 months: - **Per day**: Peak number of simultaneous sessions run by all agents in parallel. - **Per day**: Peak number of agents running simultaneous sessio...
12 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review