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UrbanCode Deploy 10 Minute Tip: Reconfiguring Agent to Relay Mappings

October 14, 2020

Changing the mappings of Agents to Relays can be a time-consuming business, until now.... Re-configuring IBM UrbanCode Deploy (UCD) agents to either put them behind a relay or to change the relays they work with used be time-consuming. You either had to write a UCD process to run on the…

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UrbanCode Deploy 10 Minute Tips: Sharing Properties Between Components

October 7, 2020

There are times when we need to share a property between components but how best to achieve that? In IBM UrbanCode Deploy processes, we normally seek to minimise the scope of visibility of properties so that there is no confusion between similar / same-named properties between components and also…

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UrbanCode Deploy: 10 Minute tips : Importing Component Versions – Part 2

October 5, 2020

In part 1 we looked at the basic options available for importing new component versions into UCD. This time we take a deeper look at the options available including some of the newer capabilities introduced in 7.0.1 and later. We also touch on the change from autorun process on component…

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UrbanCode Deploy 10 Minute Tips: Importing Component Versions – Part 1

October 5, 2020

There are several ways to import new component versions into UrbanCode Deploy each with its pros and cons. In this article, we'll explore this important topic and also look at some gotcha's and ways to avoid them. The most obvious way to import new component versions is using one of…

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UrbanCode Deploy 10 Minute Tip: Managing Agent Working Directories

September 21, 2020

UrbanCode Deploy agents are normally pretty self-sufficient.They self-manage their working directories for the most part and you don't have to do a lot with them. But there are a couple of scenarios where they need some help to make sure they are managed. An IBM UrbanCode…

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UrbanCode Deploy 10 Minute Tip : Property Scopes – Do you know them all?

September 17, 2020

Do you know all of the scope modifiers we can use to reference UCD properties? IBM UrbanCode Deploy has a construct that we can use in many places to substitute the name of a property for its value. So we can use an expression like ${p:propertyName} or the alternate…

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UrbanCode Deploy 10 Minute Tips: Process properties from external sources

September 4, 2020

In this article, we're going to explore two of the property types that allow UrbanCode Deploy to fetch property values from external data sources. UrbanCode Deploy provides a couple of value types for properties to be able to select from an external data source. These are Http Select and Http Multi-Select. NOTE: They…

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UrbanCode Deploy 10 Minute Tips: Auth Token Restrictions

September 2, 2020

IBM UrbanCode Deploy allows you to restrict which REST endpoints an authorization token can use. That's a nice security feature. However, if you need to set up an Auth Token Restriction for an Integration or some external script or tool, finding out what endpoints are hit can be a time-consuming activity. …

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UrbanCode Deploy: 10 Minute Tip – Some Property Magic …

August 25, 2020

There have been many times when creating new components in IBM UrbanCode Deploy when I've had to create a lot of component properties from an existing source document that needs some fudging to get it into a form suitable for UCD and then we've called the API to add each…

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10 minute tip: Migrating Assets from one server to another

August 19, 2020

There are occasions when it may be desirable to migrate assets from one UCD server instance to another. This might happen for example if you have a separate instance to develop major changes to say a component template which would be potentially too disruptive to normal operations if it was…

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UrbanCode Release is now a part of UrbanCode Velocity!

August 18, 2020

IBM UrbanCode Release is now included as part of IBM UrbanCode Velocity. We heard you loud and clear. With both products containing overlapping capabilities like release plans and associating work items to releases, it could be confusing to know which to consider. The reality is that the capabilities complement each…

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10 Minute Tips: Leveraging the UCD REST Client Libraries Part 2

August 11, 2020

Last time we looked at how we can easily discover and utilise the UCD REST client libraries to write your own scripts without having to write all the code for an http exchange. But as we said, these libraries don't provide 100% coverage of all the available API's. Wouldn't…

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10 Minute Tips: Leveraging the UrbanCode Deploy REST Client Libraries

There are times when you need to write some code to automate IBM UrbanCode Deploy, but how to do that easily? UrbanCode Deploy provides an extensive API that can be accessed either through the UCD command line tool udclient or through a REST API. The udclient is handy…

UrbanCode Deploy REST API – The udclient is your friend

Sometimes the formal documentation for IBM UrbanCode Deploy isn't the best way to explore the API. You can discover the REST API services provided by your UCD server by using this URL: https://yourserver:port/cli/application.wadl?detail=true The ?detail=true is optional and gives you extra detail. This is the Web Application Description Language (WADL) of…

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UrbanCode Release 6.2.4 Released

Today we announced the release of IBM UrbanCode Release 6.2.4. Updates include support for Java 8, additional reporting options and filtering on the pipeline. Check it out here.

UrbanCode Deploy 7.1.0 Delivers New Features and Updates

With the release of UrbanCode Deploy 7.1.0, we throw some light on the features and updates this release introduces. External approvals feature The external approval feature is introduced for a complex approval process that uses an external plug-in step like ServiceNow. You can use the feature to prevent processes…

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Forrester names IBM UrbanCode a Continuous Delivery and Release Automation leader

I’m excited to announce that IBM UrbanCode has been positioned as a Leader in “The Forrester Wave™: Continuous Delivery and Release Automation, 2020” report. This is wonderful news and is based on IBM’s scores in the Current Offering, Strategy and Market Presence categories. Forrester guides its readers that “IBM’s solution is…

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Upgrade UrbanCode Agents

Last week I was asked if there is another way to upgrade UrbanCode Agents then selecting them on the GUI and running the upgrade action. There are several ways to upgrade the agents automatically. In this blog, I will show you how you can achieve that with Python. But first,…

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