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UrbanCode Deploy is a powerful tool for auditing compliance due to the fact that we store a new version of configurable objects such as processes, properties, and templates whenever they are modified. This allows the server to accurately show all information about past deployments, but also means that those records…

Version 7.0.5.0 of UrbanCode Deploy includes a few solutions that aim to address the growing storage footprint that comes with extended usage of the Deliver server. The two areas that will see the most growth over time are the versioned database tables used to preserve information about past deployments should…

Software delivered with speed, stability, and maximized organizational/operational availability offsets fluctuating customer demands and expectations, competition, security, regulatory compliance, and a host of other external challenges in dynamically paced business markets. In order for the software market to establish holistic industry-standard measurements and assess the aforementioned technological capabilities in accordance…

One of our goals with UrbanCode Deploy 7.1.0.0 has been to address a number of high priority RFEs. In this post, I'll go over our rework and enhancement of the feature formerly known as “Run Process after a Version is Created” and now called "Deployment Triggers." Deployment Triggers play a major role…

UrbanCode Velocity 1.5.1 introduces the ability to pass properties to an UrbanCode Deploy (UCD) task as part of a deployment plan. The UCD task is executed by UCD with application process request property values being passed from Velocity according to property name.  Usage An UrbanCode Deploy (UCD) integration is required. Create a deployment…

“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.” ~ William Thomson Kelvin, physicist, mathematician and engineer In Agile and Lean software development environments, the numbers and data are metrics used to understand, control, and improve what we do and…

A new “Shell” plugin in UrbanCode Velocity 1.5.1 brings the powerful flexibility of containerized shell execution as part of deployment plans. Simply add the plugin and integration to Velocity and you will be able to configure deployment plan templates with a new type of task to “Run a Shell Script”. …

Agents are light-weight processes that are installed on hosts and communicate with the UrbanCode Build server. Agents run commands on the host, move files to and from it, and work with other tools installed on the host. Agents are responsible for running builds and driving third-party tools. After an agent…

UrbanCode Build is a continuous integration and builds management server optimized for the enterprise. It is designed to make it easy to scale the configuration and management of your build infrastructure and seamlessly plug into development, testing and release tooling. Running UrbanCode Build, as containers, make installation of the server…

Starting from version 6.1.5, UrbanCode Build agents can run on IBM z/OS through Unix System Services (usually abbreviated as USS), which is a required component of IBM z/OS that is included by default. Since the initial introduction of UrbanCode Build to z/OS, the installation procedure has gone through several changes.…

The Agent Workspace viewer is a feature which is available on UrbanCode Build 6.1.6.0 or higher versions. This feature enables users to view the working directory for a build in real time without having to log on to the actual machine where the Agent executes builds. This can be very…

  Dr Eliyahu Goldratt shares in his book "The Goal", “every organization has at any given point in time at least one constraint which limits the system’s performance relative to its goal”. And as Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, & George Spafford point out in "The Phoenix Project”, one of the…

Mainframe application development is constantly going through changes, but the tools that support them, like the legacy library managers, are stuck two decades back. There is a need to rethink the entire lifecycle of mainframe application development process in the new CI-CD world. This is not just about plugging tools…

A rolling deployment is appropriate for big applications that are composed of multiple independent nodes. These nodes can be as big as dedicated servers or as small as Docker containers. This deployment technique is relatively complicated in terms of deployment orchestration. UrbanCode Deploy helps you simplify such complicated deployment processes…

SD Times, the leading software development magazine, declared 2019 the year of the value stream, and they weren't wrong. Value Stream Management was a hot topic at DevOps conferences and in industry media outlets. At UrbanCode, we continued to enhance our own Value Stream Management Tool, Velocity. This month, SD…

By every measure, 2019 was a breakout year for Value Stream Management – it was the hot request from our customers and a focus of analysts, industry media and conferences. Driven by the need to ensure we’re connecting technology investments to business value, VSM is helping to ensure the promise…

UrbanCode Velocity is the free version of our value stream management tool that is perfect for small teams. We answered basic questions on our "Get Started" page, but here are a few more FAQs about Community Edition. What are the system requirements for Community Edition? 4 CPU Cores and 8…