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Display logs in ZOS agent started task in EBCIDC or display nothing

Any ASCII or other (unreadable) data that is not EBCIDC should be prevented from ending up in the SDSF(spool). This IBM Idea has been opened to track the work being done by product development to prevent the unreadable / garbage data, related to t...
9 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Planned for future release

Introduce timeout for process steps

- We recently saw a case where a deployment process was stuck at one particular step for 3+ hours due to some issues. - It's a good idea to introduce a new step property "timeout" that can kill the step that is stuck after the mentioned timeout pe...
9 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2

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...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Needs more information

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...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 5 Under review

Allow authentication with a certificate

In UrbaCode deploy there are two possible ways of authentication:userid/password and token Both authentication mechanisms are not considered secure enough to trigger deployments from an external pipeline.
about 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Future consideration

Support for Nutanix Hypervisor

Request that UCD is tested and certified to be hosted on Windows OS running on Nutanix VM's
5 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Needs more information

Toggle to Hide Skipped Steps in Deployment Log

Add a toggle option to hide deployment steps that haven't been executed for any reason (versions/flow design/components/etc) at the top of the deployment log page. Additionally, store this as a user preference so customers don't continuously need ...
about 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Include requestor or requestor's group to cc line in email notification

We currently have the notification setup in UCD for approvers to receive notifications for approval on mail. These notifications sent to the approvers are sometimes missed out and requestor are not sure if the approvals are sent as they are not pa...
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Pass the proxy config with webhook in urban code to integrate with MS Teams

We have been trying to integrate urban code webhook with our Microsoft teams which will us to receive notification in MS Teams about the deployment progress. But we are unable to do that as we need to go through the network proxy and we have no wa...
9 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 5

Functionality for Bulk approvals in UCD

Currently we are using manual approvals for production deployment and hence there are generally lot of tasks awaiting approvals in work items tab. It is time consuming to approve them one by one. Instead if there is a option to provide bulk approv...
5 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Needs more information