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PINNED Terminal emulator support on Docker image
Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149

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Executive Summary and Transaction reports in a word Docs

Reports need to be in an editable format that can be sent by email, upload to RQM as a document in the test plan, and be able to be uploaded into other in-house customers applications.
almost 9 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test Performance 3 Future consideration

Implement the possibility of preventing the use of licenses by UCD, when the limit is reached.

Today it is not possible to have control over the use of UCD licenses, as the tool allows the continuation of activities, even when the license limit has been reached. By not providing this option, the use of licenses is always subject to exceedin...
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 8 Not under consideration

Plugin for Snowflake

Developers at ICE Mortgage Technology are working on Suites team project to onboard on Snowflake. Since the developers use UrbanCode Deploy to deliver artifacts, they need a plugin for Snowflake.
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Needs more information

Zero outage when applying patches

Currently when a patch is provided by product team we have to do complete outage of UCD that includes below steps Enable maintenance mode Pause all running deployments Stop all deploy server nodes Apply patch and start all deploy server nodes Disa...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under 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 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

UCD Agent unavailable

The UCD Agents running on the UNIX boxes are going down. This forces a manual restart before UCD processes can be run. The root cause of the agents going down is not known.
over 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Functionality already exists

if artifact version associated with snapshot is listed, it will be easier for cleaning artifacts

To troubleshoot why some artifacts are not getting cleaned up
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Resource template inheritance - Add functionality to inherit Resource template properties

The point with templates, in order to get those to be used as much as possible is to have the possibility to inherit ALL the values you can register in a (Resource) template.I think it would be great for all the users of Urbancode Deploy.For now, ...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Needs more information

In multi-user scenario, running UI test in a VU schedule), need an alternative similar to Selenium sendkeys methodology

Running UI Tests in (RPT) VU Schedules to accomplish load test needs. Specific tests include Navigation Actions on Windows dialogs (like Open/Save/etc.) Need a way to maintain proper focus, to select the proper dialog when there are multiple insta...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 4 Not under consideration

Rest API to add files to a version

There is currently no rest api equivalent for the cli 'addVersionFiles'.
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 0 Future consideration