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UrbanCode Deploy

UrbanCode Deploy 10 Minute Tip: Documenting the Permissions Model

December 22, 2020
When you set out to define a permissions model for IBM UrbanCode Deploy it's often a requirement to document the model for discussions/approvals...  While UCD provides tools to build and maintain the permissions model it doesn't give you a 'single view' that can be used in workshops and other forums…
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UrbanCode Build

Viewing Agent Additional Information on UrbanCode Build 6.1.7

November 20, 2020
We heard from a number of clients that it could be hard to understand how much they were using each agent and for what. We updated the Agent view pages to make this a lot easier to understand. Check it out: Jobs Run column in Agents table: A new column…
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UrbanCode Build

UrbanCode Build 6.1.7 – Rearrange Workflows

November 18, 2020
UrbanCode Build's now offers the ability to rearrange and move workflows. This gives an option for moving the Project workflows between projects along with the complete Build history and data. This helps the user setup a test project workflow without affecting the main project. Once the test project workflow is…
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UrbanCode Build

Job as Code in UrbanCode Build 6.1.7

November 11, 2020
UrbanCode Build's Job-as-Code is an alternate approach to configure job steps, as a simple plain JSON or YAML files. It also avoids configuring the job steps manually in UrbanCode Build UI. The challenges that users face while configuring job steps is to track the changes done to the job steps.…
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UrbanCode Deploy

UrbanCode Deploy 10 Minute Tips: How can I remotely get my Application Logs?

November 11, 2020
Logging onto, particularly production machines, is not a DevOps best practice, so how can we get logs to diagnose faults? Particularly with Production systems, it's a poor DevOps practice to login to machines to make changes.  Ideally, everything should happen through your automated systems so there is no need.  This…
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UrbanCode Deploy

UrbanCode Deploy 10 Minute Tips: When the UCD REST Client Meets Version Import

November 9, 2020
You may have noticed that there is no documented way of adding files to a UCD Component version.  The only ways open to you seem to be either the udclient or using source plugins to import your component version assets. But there must be a way right? The udclient does it – so how…
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UrbanCode Deploy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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UrbanCode Deploy

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 Velocity

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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UrbanCode Deploy

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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