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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

Proactive Toxic combination validation

Hello Team, User level validation while adding to roles to avoid toxic combination proactively Example User1 is part of platoform Mgr role, So user1 should never be part of deployer role. Can we have the check in place while adding the toxic roles...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

SSL support in Oracle Service Bus Configuration Management plugin

The plugin we are using to talk to weblogic doesn't support SSL for the agent -> weblogic communication. (see: https://developer.ibm.com/urbancode/plugin/oracle-service-bus-configuration-management/) In our case security is enforcing SSL harden...
about 7 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

UCD IIB plugin RFE

The pre-requisite to deploy to an existing EG is that the EG is in running state. Since the built-in Create Execution Group step is able to recognize a stopped EG, it'll be good to add a logic to grab that outcome. So CheckEGExist step may be skip...
about 7 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Provide a mechanism in UDeploy for display (e.g. HTML Report or other UI Table Report format) of currently unformatted JSON text from Deploy Process Log

Provide a mechanism in UDeploy for display (e.g. HTML Report or other UI Table Report format) of currently unformatted JSON text from Deploy Process Log in a more user friendly manner to enhance Developer Experience in UCD. Today it is difficult t...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 8 Not under consideration

Update the CLI to allow easier way to pull directly provisioned users

Currently the CLI in UCD deploy requires quite a few hops to find out directly provisioned users. It would be tremendously helpful to simply have one command which lists all users that were DIRECTLY added to the tool. Currently the 3 ways are thro...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

REST API - Retrieve name of External Approval Process

The primary need for this is for audit/compliance type reporting. For deployments that target any environment that requires any type of approval (manual and/or External Approval process), we need to report that information. Using the current REST ...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Export project discards library and order history of Generic Service Client

For REST / SOA service testing, RPT feeds a request library (requisitions) as well as a history of executing these requests during the development of the test script. Protocol settings are also created for authenticated services and / or you use S...
over 7 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test Performance 3 Not under consideration

Development of the plugin "Nexus V3 Automation plugin"

Automation plugin Nexus v3 step "Download NuGet package" fails with 404 service/local/all_repositories
over 7 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Run blueprints from integration with terraform engine

We currently use the Blueprint Designer tool to create blueprints for provisioning environments via Urbancode Deploy. We are migrating from the engine we used (Heat) to the Terraform engine. However we note that it is not possible to provision env...
over 7 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 Not under consideration

MQ Plugin: Add ability to set object perms (SET AUTHREC) with remote queue manager

Currently they SetPermission steps in the MQ Plugin require an agent on the MQ Server. These appear to be the only steps where this is the case (with the exception of those actions which cannot be done via runmqsc commands). I have written my own ...
over 7 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration