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Allow agent logs to be accessible from UCD server UI according to name pattern defined in agents log4j

Currently the "request agent logs" feature from UCD server UI only supports the agent log files in format agent.out.<INDEX>. We are working with teams which updated the agent log4j to alter the log file name to a daily naming syntax, e.g. ag...
about 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

MSA and GMSA service account support for the ucdagent

Use case: Windows ucdgagent Active directory service accounts are restricted to systems in the allowed "Logon To" list. This is very restrictive in the amount f systems you can have this account to access. Basically approximately 64 systems. I the...
over 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 4 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

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...
about 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

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

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

The status/result of a deployment should correctly reflect the result of the external approval process

We are making use of the external approval process to check at deployment time if the deployment is allowed to happen. Our process consists of two steps: - Step 1: Make an external call with the 'Send HTTP Call' step - Step 2: A groovy script to p...
almost 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration