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Resources Agents page to have the option to filter the agent list by relay column value 'None'

Currently 7.1.x and 7.2.x version do not have the option on the agents list in UI to retrieve the agents connected directly to server. So it is not possible to select altogether all the agents without a relay and manage these agents at once (defin...
over 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Change the license type

To avoid UCD outages (what means no deployments anywhere) during license key server downtime even when LKS has HA redundant server configuration (while license servers may be kept by different team and had downtime issues), the UCD licenses should...
over 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

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...
over 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

UrbanCode Deploy to Support Multi-Component Installs In a Specific Order (Where All Components in an Application Share the same Tag) Based on Snapshot Details

UrbanCode Deploy currently supports installing a component with multiple versions in a specific order based on the order that the versions are added to the component in a snapshot. However, UrbanCode Deploy doesn't support installing multiple comp...
over 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Access to ApplicationProcessRequest properties without a full deployment trace

In order to generate custom deployment reports to our release management team, we are required to list up all the deployments, including a wide range of additional data (may or may not come from UCD). As part of the deployments, there are certain ...
over 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Future consideration

Rest API to upload plugin

As part of a release pipeline, we would like to be able to upload the plugin to UrbanCode Deploy through a Jenkins pipeline. Currently, after the deploy, we have to manually upload the plugin to the instance, which is an action that we would like ...
over 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Rest API to query tokens

We are currently creating tokens for technical accounts. There is a expiration date foreseen, after which those need to be rotated. In order to make sure that +/- 1 month we are notified of any expiring tokens, we have designed a batch that will v...
over 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Allow mail notification scheme to send a mail to the person who triggered the deployment process

Currently, UCD only allows you to specify the recipient as a notification scheme through the roles. There are a couple of different use cases that require additional freedom: The option to specify that the mail should only be sent to the person wh...
over 2 years 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...
over 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Allow External Approval processes to gather deployment instance information, including component and version info and properties

This would be beneficial for our CI/CD approval process automation because our goal is to approve/deny production releases on an automated basis by utilizing UCD Component version properties to query information in RTC related to a work item statu...
over 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration