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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

Provide a signal that token will expire

The created tokens within UCD will disappear from the token list after the expiration date/time, without any message or information about it in the logs. When this happens all deployments fail, where in the logging no clear message is shown. It is...
over 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 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...
almost 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

Notification Scheme cannot be customized per Application or Environment when using Templates

We utilize Application Templates to enforce rules/environments etc... A notification scheme is selected in the template configuration but once an application is created from the template, the selected scheme is locked down and a different scheme c...
almost 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Adding Windows Auth ability to connect to SQL Servers for UCD server installation in Linux servers

This would be benefit for the customers who want to use win authentication for connecting to their SQL servers. We treat win auth is more secured than sql authentication.
almost 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

zOS Agent - Support for special characters in PDS member names

Currently the zOS Deploy Agent does not support all PDS member names (see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/elm/6.0.3?topic=definitions-zos-data-set-naming-rules). We currently have Endevor backout members that do not meet these standard and so cannot b...
almost 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Post approval processes

UCD currently provides two ways to give a pre-approval: Manual pre-approval External process approval Ideally, we could also have the same as post-approvals. Similar to Azure Devops (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/release/...
almost 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Future consideration

Rest API to add files to a version

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

Application Process Request - Metadata takes too much space on smaller screens

The new UI has been an improvement over the previous version, but there are some pages that are less UX friendly on smaller screens. One of the impacted pages is the Application Deploy Request page. The metadata of a deploy (process, environment, ...
almost 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...
almost 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration