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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

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

Validating the contents of /var/plugins in agent directory by the UCD server

The contents of /var/plugins in agent directory need to be tracked as it is verifying only directory names not the file size or modifications by end-user or modifications using any process. It needs to be tracked and validated before every deploym...
over 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

New category 'Technical' for application processes to remove exposure to the user

Designing the processing for our Cobol pipeline we have ran into situations when we need to start a process in another environment then the one that was requested by the user. For example when we deploy to PR we need to start a process in a test e...
12 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

Application processes only runable in certain environments

Our setup of UCD for Cobol system deployments we have some application processes that only should be run in the PR environment. It is a problem that these processes are available as a choice when deploying to a test environment because the users m...
12 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

Improve support for migration of UCD objects across instances

Tools team is currently supporting active development of UCD processes for several hundred applications. We would like to manage and deploy UCD objects using standard automated development practices. Unfortunately, the available processes are inco...
almost 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Application Process Properties set with Environment Variabes

We would like to allow application process properties to be set based on environments.
almost 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

To capture failed process logs

We are looking for way to fetch failed deployment logs for specific time period using uDeploy API. It should fetch below details-Application name, environment name, Requested date, Status (Failure or Success), Failed Child Step name, Reason for fa...
12 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Future consideration

Make "Description" field for Application Deploys a property

In order to enforce certain keywords for deploys, it would be valuable to access the "Description" field in Application deploys via a property.
12 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Future consideration

it would be good to have a notification template in UrbanCode Deploy that doesn't send a mail

We are using approvals in deployments processes where we wouldn't like to send a mail. For example: the list of approvers is large and we don't want all the approvers to receive a mail.
about 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 4 Future consideration