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Workspace DevOps Automation
Categories Deploy
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 25, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Access more application process request information - scheduled time

Our deployment processes need to check several values that can affect how deployments are executed. For example, during regular deployments, we want to trigger a refresh on a mainframe cache. However, for weekend deployments, we prefer to wait for a global cache refresh instead. To implement this logic, we need to know the scheduled time of the deployment process.

Currently, we can retrieve this information by making an API call to an endpoint. However, it would be much more convenient if we could access properties like `parentRequest.scheduledTime` directly within the deployment process. There are many other useful properties that are not directly accessible, which could be valuable in various scenarios.

We suggest making more deployment request properties directly available in the process context to simplify and enhance deployment logic.

  • Guest
    Jan 12, 2026

    Start time is not the same as scheduled time, and the two can differ. The latter is critical for us because we only permit deployments to be scheduled for specific times on designated days. While this may not seem necessary from a technical perspective, it is a key requirement for our internal processes.

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  • Admin
    Randy Langehennig
    Jan 9, 2026

    Our engineering team is proposing to add the application process start time as a property. The other ones don’t seem as valuable in their mind.

    Could you please let us know if this would work for you and the team? We await your response. and thank you for your partnership. Thank you.

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  • Admin
    Randy Langehennig
    Dec 2, 2025

    Thank you for submitting this idea. We have created a discussion topic to review this idea with our development team soon. We will be in touch with updates following our meeting.

    Reply

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