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Implement the possibility of preventing the use of licenses by UCD, when the limit is reached.

Today it is not possible to have control over the use of UCD licenses, as the tool allows the continuation of activities, even when the license limit has been reached. By not providing this option, the use of licenses is always subject to exceedin...
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 8 Not under consideration

UCD automatically handles JCL that exceeds the character limit per line after substituting

While I was trying to use OCOPY in our pipeline via "Submit JCL" step, I had to hard-coded the file name like below since the continuation for HFS Path has to be cut off at column 71, and starting next line at column 16 according to https://www.ib...
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Access comment of process step "manual task "

I want to create a simple process that sends the reason of a denied manual tasks to a recipient per mail. UCD does not provide a way to access the comment of a manual task. The reason for the denied tasks is in the comment field and therefore I ne...
almost 5 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Prevent submitting a snapshot deploy with component versions that have not passed Environment Gates

Deploys of Snapshots with component versions that have not passed Environment Gates fail at the time of deploy rather than preventing the submittal of the deploy. Currently, when submitting deploys for individual components (rather than through a ...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

Links to a component process when editing an application process

It would be helpful to be able to open the specific component process page to understand what steps are taking place within it as well as to view the logs the ran the last time it had been run. This helps navigate to the relevant pages quicker in ...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

New functionality to Restore a Backup to Dataset

The existing zOS Utilities step “Rollback Dataset Step” is capable to restore the previous version from a (automatically created) backup file. There is a rare case, that a single file from a deployment would need to be restored - in this scenario ...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

UCD ServiceNow Plugin to be added to the SNOW Play Store

In MetLife, we have additional security layers to not allow any API call from any plugin which are not in the SNOW play store. So, adding this plugin in the play store, will help us use this for our automation.
10 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Needs more information

Rest API to add files to a version

There is currently no rest api equivalent for the cli 'addVersionFiles'.
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

Enhance PACC to Allow for Comments

The current implementation of the processes-as-code compiler does not work unless the "Require a Comment For Process Design Changes" is turned off. We have requirements from Audit within our organization and need to keep that enabled. We would lik...
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

UCD Agent unavailable

The UCD Agents running on the UNIX boxes are going down. This forces a manual restart before UCD processes can be run. The root cause of the agents going down is not known.
over 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Functionality already exists