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Pinned ideas

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

DevOps Automation

Inquiry on Active Deployments on Agent at Specific Timestamp Checking Parallel Deployments/ Agent to be used

This is our requirement: Can we run/get a report for UCD usage with details for the past 12 months: - **Per day**: Peak number of simultaneous sessions run by all agents in parallel. - **Per day**: Peak number of agents running simultaneous sessio...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Under review

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...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / 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...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Under review

UCV executor plugin to return valid http status code

This plugin returns 200 every single time, even if the deployment can't be started or if there's something wrong with the json data that gets passed. The plugin is supposed to respond with an error if the incorrect data gets passed (e.g. pipeline ...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 3 Under review

Enable native support for archiving to Amazon S3 in IBM DevOps Deploy

Currently, IBM does not support archiving to Amazon S3, which limits our ability to automate and optimize our storage workflows in cloud-native environments. Adding S3 archiving support would benefit DevOps, infrastructure, and compliance teams wh...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4

Rest API to add files to a version

There is currently no rest api equivalent for the cli 'addVersionFiles'.
about 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / 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...
about 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 0 Future consideration

UCDP BP should support encrypt and decrypt of secure input property values

UCDP blueprint designer does not have the ability to decrypt or encrypt secure properties defined in UCD. Because of this, deployments of components that use secure properties will fail. This ability should be fully supported by UCPD blueprint des...
over 10 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Requirement - Importing deployment metrics from udeploy to Cloudbees CD Currently we are using "Udeploy" as a deployment tool and we want to manage the udeploy's deployment metrics in the cloudbees cd analytics dashboard. We need a single json file with metrics data to import to cloudbees CD.

We are in need of the below mentioned specific metrics from UCD in json format so that we can feed it in cloudbees CD dashboard configuration. This allows us to view the analytics in the cloudbees dashboard. Metrics required : Total number of depl...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 18 Not under consideration

allow post-deploy-post operations in running an application process through a REST command

The rest command used for running an application process currently accepts the parameters post-deploy-put-url and post-deploy-message. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/urbancode-deploy/7.0.5?topic=resource-run-application-process We would like to h...
over 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration