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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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Add ICSF Use Count to SMF 123 records

Add the ICSF use count (ICSF*CRYPTO*INSTRUCTONS*COUNT) to the SMF123 records for z/OS Connect EE API counts. This is important to track the impact of requestor configurations like "idletimeout" values on the number of calls to the ICSF service whe...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

Enhance Application Process Required Role

Currently application processes can be configured so that a required role is needed to run the process. Unfortunately this is limited to a single role. We currently have a range of platform roles for seniority in platform teams that work across mu...
7 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 5 Under review

adjust file permissions for the secured-installed.properties file on the deploy server

The `/<UCD_INSTALL_HOME>/conf/server/secured-installed.properties` file permissions is to open, at 0644. Changing this to 0600 or 0640 ends up reverting back to 0644 once the server or the deploy server application is restart. Since this fil...
about 1 month ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Under review

Option to import/export specific component or application process

Currently UCD provides functionality to export/import component or application as a whole. However, in real use case, after the UCD application is setup in PROD environment initially the further changes will be gradual and mostly in few applicatio...
3 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Under review

Metadata for Teams and Groups

Would it be possible to have a description or metadata field within the teams and groups. Currently we need to manage and maintain an external file that contains owners and approvers for team and group access requests, this can be difficult to mai...
7 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 4 Under review

Separate log history (files) and Deployment history (DB tables). We are unable to enable cleanup as both are controlled by single cleanup feature.

To separate, log history (files) and Deployment history (DB tables). We are unable to enable cleanup as both are controlled by single cleanup feature.
3 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Under review

API call that returns results of permissions granted to a role/team

This idea is useful to anyone looking to find out what permissions are associated with a role, specially auditors. They need to make sure there is separation of duties between Deploy Engineer and Design Engineer Roles. This is in reference to this...
about 2 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Under review

Allow Agent Groovy management via UCD UI

Following the successful implementation of java management via the UCD UI, it would be good to also allow groovy to be upgraded via the UI for agents. We have recently found issues for groovy-3.0.10 compatibility with java 17, which means we can't...
7 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Under review

Create a command to clear JWK Cache/Publickeys

We are experiencing an issue with zOS Connect/Liberty where the JSON Web Keys (JWKs) cached from a specific jwkEndpointUrl are not being refreshed unless there is a server recycle. This issue arises because our JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) do not use a ...
2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

Logs For Encryption Keyrotation

With Urbancode Deploy v 7.2.3.1 a new utility is provided keyrotate which can be used to rotate encryption keystore for UCD. When running this utility no logs are generated, it only gives a summary of the key rotation at the end of the keyrotation...
10 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Under review