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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

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

Filters for Security Reports that allows for specific applications to be selected for a report

Being able to filter the security reports down to more specific criteria would be extremely useful for auditing. We have multiple different audit groups with different requirements. Some of those requirements are only needed for specific applicati...
over 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 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.
over 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 4 Future consideration

missing INDEX in "Process Properties", properties ordering

Description: when creating a new "Process Properties" there is no chance to re-order the properties. With "Component Properties" i have this option "INDEX". Im aware that i can delete all properties and add it in right order to get the same result...
almost 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Urbancode Deploy - Search Filter for Post Processing Scripts

Hi Team, Please provide a search option in the Process Design to filter post processing script if any is used other than the Step Default. Currently, there is no team permission for post processing script and all hundreds of such scripts appear in...
almost 3 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...
about 3 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 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 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/...
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Future consideration