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Universal Broker
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Change ID
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Platforms
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Component
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Description
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B-13820
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Unix
Windows
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UAGSRV
UBROKER
PKG
Allow the following Universal Extension config options to be set at install time or via Broker startup:
- EXTENSION_ACCEPT_LIST
- EXTENSION_DEPLOY_ON_REGISTRATION
- EXTENSION_PYTHON_LIST
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The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
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B-13831
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Unix
Windows
UAGSRV
UBROKER
UEXT
PKG
Provide the ability for Universal Extensions to detect and respond to Cancel commands issued from Universal Controller.
This option provides the new UAG Server configuration option, EXTENSION_CANCEL_TIMEOUT.
The ability to configure that value at install time and/or Universal Broker startup is also provided.
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The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
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B-13885
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z/OS
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UBROKER
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Suppress ICH408I messages in the RACF log when running the Broker with a user without BPX.SUPERUSER access.
This message is an expected response to a check of authority level, but repeated checks result in several instances of the ICH408I message appear in the log.
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D-10426
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z/OS
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UBROKER
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Fixes a problem that prevented UBROKER startup while loading the UNVACTRT SMF exit.
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D-10470
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Linux PPC
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All
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Prevent a crash during OpenSSL random number generation seeding observed on RHEL8 on a PowerPC system.
Universal Command
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Change ID
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Platforms
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Component
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Description
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D-10435
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Windows
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UCMD
UCTL
UDM
UFTP
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Issue a configuration error when the DES-CBC-SHA cipher is specified from a Windows component.
This cipher was deprecated in a previous release and since then, Agent server components would fail to negotiate a session with a manager component that only requested the DES-CBC-SHA cipher. However, the value itself should have been flagged during configuration processing and not presented to the server.
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D-10470
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Linux PPC
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All
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Prevent a crash during OpenSSL random number generation seeding observed on RHEL8 on a PowerPC system.
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D-10474
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z/OS
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UCMD
UCTL
UDM
UEM
UFTP
Prevent a situation in which command line parameters provided via a SYSIN statement were ignored if they followed a password on the same line.
For example, given the following:
//SYSIN DD * -userid uid -pwd password -level info /*
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Universal Connector for SAP
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Change ID
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Platforms
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Component
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Description
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B-12809
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All
(except HP-UX and Solaris Intel)
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USAP
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Update USAP to support the RSPARAMSL_255 data type for variants. The following USAP operations may now take advantage of this change:
- SUBMIT variant using a variant definition file
- MODIFY variant using a variant definition file
- DISPLAY variant
- GENERATE variant definition
- SUBMIT job from job definition file with inline temporary variant. SAP LOW and HIGH data types to support up to 255 chars
These changes are supported for XBP 2.0 and XBP 3.0, but full 255-character support ultimately depends on the SAP function module implementation.
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For the most consistent RSPARAMSL_255 support, Stonebranch recommends using SAP NW RFC library version 7.5.x and XBP 3.0 (controlled via the USAP XBP_MAX configuration option). |
Universal Control
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| B-13286 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Extend the AUTOMATIC_FAILOVER option to support the primary_secondary value, which will instruct a Universal Agent configured with a SYSPLEX_ROLE of primary to start as a secondary Agent if another primary Agent is already running.
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| B-13287 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Extend the AUTOMATIC_FAILOVER option to support the secondary_primary[n] value, where n is an optional numeric value that sets a priority to determine which secondary Agent (among several active secondary Agents) will take over as primary.
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| B-13288 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Added the (mutually-exclusive) ZOS_JOB_SYSAFF and ZOS_JOB_SYSTEM configuration options that can manage a zOS task's execution via a SYSAFF or SYSTEM JOB card parameter, respectively. | |||||
| B-13292 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Extend the AUTOMATIC_FAILOVER option to support the always_primary value, which will force an Agent whose SYSPLEX_ROLE is primary to always start as a Primary Agent. Any other Agent running as a Primary Agent will become a Secondary Agent when this Agent starts.
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| B-14071 | Unix | UAGSRV | Add the KILL_PROCESS_TREE option to control how UAG Server responds to a Cancel task command from Universal Controller. When yes, the entire process tree is terminated via SIGTERM. Any process within the tree that is still running after 10 seconds is terminated with a SIGKILL. UAG Server will confirm that all processes in the process tree are terminated before it notifies the Controller of the termination. To preserve compatibility with existing behavior, the default value for this option is no, which can prevent the termination of a process in the tree that ignores the SIGTERM signal. This may cause the task's status in the Universal Controller to show Cancelled although the (now orphaned) process continues to run.
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| B-14630 | Unix | UAGSRV | Add the ability to retrieve values from the Universal Controller File Transfer Task form that support transfers using explicit FTPS (that is, FTP with SSL).
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| B-14725 | Unix | UAGSRV | Add full support for Universal Monitor tasks, including the ability to reconnect to Universal Extension tasks (executed on behalf of the Monitor task) that continue to run when an Agent is restarted.
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| D-10379 | Windows | UAGSRV | Fix an issue where a File Monitor task running on a Windows Agent fails to recognize Unicode characters. | |||||
| D-10430 | Unix | UAGSRV | When an SAP task instance is cancelled, ensure that the associated Universal Connector for SAP (USAP) process is cancelled as well. | |||||
| D-10534 | Unix | UAGSRV | UAG Server may crash when a Universal Extension task references a credential token greater than 3000 characters in length.
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| D-10556 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Fix an issue that prevented a file monitor task from locating datasets when a wildcard is used as the first character in the dataset pattern. This restores behavior that existed prior to Universal Agent 7.0.0.0. | |||||
| D-10559 | Unix | UAGSRV | Fix an issue introduced in UA 7.1.0.0, where a Universal Task fails to properly resolve resolvable credentials when the credential variable is enclosed in double quotes. | |||||
| D-10687 | z/OS | UAGSRV | When running a File Transfer Task via a z/OS Agent, if the Local and/or Remote Filename values exceeded 72 characters, UAG Server failed to properly format the SYSIN DD statement in the JCL used to execute UFTP. The z/OS Agent now ensures that such values are properly terminated at column 72 and continued to the next line. |
Universal Broker
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Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
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| D-10530 | Unix | UBROKER | When the Universal Broker daemon encounters an EPIPE when attempting to log a message to unv.log, close the existing log file and resume logging to a new file. |
Universal Data Mover
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Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
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| D-10435 10523 | Unix | UDM | Issue a configuration error when the DES-CBC-SHA cipher is specified from a Windows component. This cipher was deprecated in a previous release and since then, Agent server components would fail to negotiate a session with a manager component that only requested the DES-CBC-SHA cipher. However, the value itself should have been flagged during configuration processing and not presented to the server. |
D-10470 | Linux PPC | All | Prevent a crash during OpenSSL random number generation seeding observed on RHEL8 on a PowerPC system. | D-10474 | z/OS | UCMD
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Universal Data Mover
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Change ID
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Platforms
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Component
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Description
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D-08997
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z/OS
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UDM
UDMSRV
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Prevent a S0C4 when executing transfers of UTF16-encoded datasets.
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D-09852
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Unix
z/OS
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UDM
UDMSRV
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Ensure that the message that shows the result of the CD command displays correctly.
This issue was most visible on zOS, but could occur on any Linux/Unix system whose default locale is not UTF8.
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D-10210
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All
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UDM
UDMSRV
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Scrubs any password specified with the OPEN statement from trace file output.
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D-10256
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All
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UDM
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Fixes a crash that could occur if the UDM Manager message level was set to “trace” from the command line.
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D-10435
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Windows
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UCMD
UCTL
UDM
UFTP
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Issue a configuration error when the DES-CBC-SHA cipher is specified from a Windows component.
This cipher was deprecated in a previous release and since then, Agent server components would fail to negotiate a session with a manager component that only requested the DES-CBC-SHA cipher. However, the value itself should have been flagged during configuration processing and not presented to the server.
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D-10470
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Linux PPC
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All
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Prevent a crash during OpenSSL random number generation seeding observed on RHEL8 on a PowerPC system.
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D-10474
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z/OS
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UCMD
UCTL
UDM
UEM
UFTP
Prevent a situation in which command line parameters provided via a SYSIN statement were ignored if they followed a password on the same line.
For example, given the following:
//SYSIN DD * -userid uid -pwd password -level info /*
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Universal Event Monitor
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Change ID
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Platforms
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Component
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Description
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D-10470
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Linux PPC
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All
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Prevent a crash during OpenSSL random number generation seeding observed on RHEL8 on a PowerPC system.
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D-10474
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z/OS
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UCMD
UCTL
UDM
UEM
UFTP
Prevent a situation in which command line parameters provided via a SYSIN statement were ignored if they followed a password on the same line.
For example, given the following:
//SYSIN DD * -userid uid -pwd password -level info /*
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Universal Extension
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Change ID
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Platforms
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Component
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Description
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B-13819
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Unix
Windows
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UEXT
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Provide the UAGSRV EXTENSION_PYTHON_LIST configuration option to extend the list of locations searched for Python instances that may be used by Universal Extension tasks.
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The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
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B-13821
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Unix
Windows
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UEXT
Update the values supported via the requires_python declaration of a Universal Extension implementation as follows:
- Support wildcards in the version specification (for example, “==2.7.*”).
- Support an exclusive range of versions via the > and < operators (for example, “> 2.6, < 4”).
- Support an inclusive range of versions via the >= and <= operator (for example, “> 3.7.6”).
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The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
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B-13822
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Windows
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UEXT
Allow usermode installs to discover the Python distribution provided by a system mode-installed Agent.
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The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
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B-13831
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Unix
Windows
UAGSRV
UBROKER
UEXT
PKG
Provide the ability for Universal Extensions to detect and respond to Cancel commands issued from Universal Controller.
This option provides the new UAG Server configuration option, EXTENSION_CANCEL_TIMEOUT.
The ability to configure that value at install time and/or Universal Broker startup is also provided.
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The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
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B-13846
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Unix
Windows
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UEXT
Allow Universal Extension tasks to accept authentication tokens (e.g., used for Web or cloud-based service authentication) from a Universal Controller resolvable credential object.
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The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
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B-13860
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Unix
Windows
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UEXT
Refactor the Universal Extension logging API so that it is no longer necessary to instantiate an ExtensionLogger object. Logging methods can now be accessed using the following import:
from universal_extension import logger
Logging methods can be invoked using calls such as either:
- logger.info(‘msg’)
- logger.error(‘msg’)
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The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
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B-13908
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Unix
Windows
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UEXT
Add the ability to execute Dynamic Commands within a Universal Extension task without launching a separate process (i.e., support “in-process” Dynamic Command execution).
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The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
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B-13989
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Windows
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UEXT
Provide a new utility to assist with Universal Extension development that provides a command line interface to Universal Extension task APIs offered by Universal Controller.
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The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
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B-14049
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Unix
Windows
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UAGSRV
UEXT
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Ensure that any instances of a password exposed by a Universal Extension task are scrubbed from the UAG Server cache files.
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B-14255
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Windows
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UEXT
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Extend the uip utility delivered by B-13989 with an init command that can be used to initialize a working directory (e.g., a local Git repository) for Universal Extension development.
Please see the Universal Extension development documentation for information on the new “uip” utility.
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The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
Universal FTP Client
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UDMSRV | Prevent an authentication error for a File Transfer task when the following conditions exist:
For example:
Starting with UA 7.0.0.0, this will cause the resolved $(ops_primary_cred_pwd) value in the | |||||||
| D-10531 | z/OS | UDM | Fix an issue where an attempt to transfer PDS members from z/OS using UDM may result in an S0C4 ABEND. When this occurs, the following error is reported:
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Universal Extension
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Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
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B-10691 | All | UAGSRV | Add explicit FTPS (FTPES) support to UFTP. Enables transfers using TLS/SSL over connection to standard FTP port 21, provided the FTP server supports it. To request TLS/SSL from a Remote File Transfer or Remote File Monitor task, select the FTP protocol and prepend ftpes:// to the FTP server host name or IP address (e.g., ftpes://somehost). If the FTP server has enabled TLS/SSL support, the connection will proceed using encrypted communication. If TLS/SSL support is NOT enabled, a plain text session/transfer is done. The UFTP ENABLE_SSL configuration option (default:no) is provided to always request a TLS/SSL session, eliminating the need to specify the ftpes:// prefix. The UFTP AUTHENTICATE_PEER configuration option (default: no) is provided to control FTP server certificate authentication. When set to “yes”, the UFTP CA_CERTIFICATES configuration option must specify a CA certificate that can authenticate the FTP server’s certificate. |
B-13316 | Unix (except HP-UX) | UFTP | Update SSH Key Exchange and Cipher support for SFTP transfers. Provides better compatibility with default OpenSSH configurations, by making the following changes to supported key exchange methods: Added:
Removed:
The diffie-helman-group-exchange-sha256 key exchange method was left unchanged. Support for the following ciphers was added:
Support for the following ciphers was left unchanged:
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D-10435 | Windows | UCMD | Issue a configuration error when the DES-CBC-SHA cipher is specified from a Windows component. This cipher was deprecated in a previous release and since then, Agent server components would fail to negotiate a session with a manager component that only requested the DES-CBC-SHA cipher. However, the value itself should have been flagged during configuration processing and not presented to the server. |
D-10470 | Linux PPC | All | Prevent a crash during OpenSSL random number generation seeding observed on RHEL8 on a PowerPC system. | D-10474 | z/OS | UCMD
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Universal Message Service (OMS)
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Change ID
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Platforms
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Component
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Description
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B-13931
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Unix
Windows
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OMS
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Add a service timeout implementation to the OMS Java Client to enable detection of connection issues without waiting for a TCP keepalive interval to elapse.
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The ability to configure this value is provided via the Universal Controller with B-13967. |
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D-10371
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Unix
Windows
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OMSSRV
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Prevents re-delivery of OMS messages following automatic recovery executed against a corrupted, truncated data file.
Installation Changes
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| B-14270 | Unix | UEXT | Remove internal DEBUG-level messages that are generated by the Universal Extension base class when the extension task's log level is DEBUG. Only DEBUG messages issued by the extension developer should be shown.
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| B-14271 | Unix | UEXT | Add the following commands/options to the UIP-CLI utility:
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| B-14544 | Unix | UEXT | Make all all Task Instance variables set by the Controller for a Universal Extension task available to the Extension. An extension can access these variables via the
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| B-14720 | Windows | UEXT | Add Visual Studio Code Plugin support for the UIP-CLI task commands provided by B-14271 (see above).
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| B-14724 | Unix | UEXT | To support integration with Universal Monitor tasks, receive information from the Controller that can by used to identify an Extension task launched via a Universal Monitor Trigger. Values received from the Controller are saved in the following properties:
The Universal Extension base class sets the following property when a Trigger ID is received:
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| B-14725 | Unix | UAGSRV | Add full support for Universal Monitor tasks, including the ability to reconnect to Universal Extension tasks (executed on behalf of the Monitor task) that continue to run when an Agent is restarted.
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| D-10379 | Windows | UAGSRV | Fix an issue where a File Monitor task running on a Windows Agent fails to recognize Unicode characters. | |||||
| D-10430 | Unix | UAGSRV | When an SAP task instance is cancelled, ensure that the associated Universal Connector for SAP (USAP) process is cancelled as well. | |||||
| D-10534 | Unix | UAGSRV | UAG Server may crash when a Universal Extension task references a credential token greater than 3000 characters in length.
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| D-10556 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Fix an issue that prevented a file monitor task from locating datasets when a wildcard is used as the first character in the dataset pattern. This restores behavior that existed prior to Universal Agent 7.0.0.0. | |||||
| D-10559 | Unix | UAGSRV | Fix an issue introduced in UA 7.1.0.0, where a Universal Task fails to properly resolve resolvable credentials when the credential variable is enclosed in double quotes. | |||||
| D-10687 | z/OS | UAGSRV | When running a File Transfer Task via a z/OS Agent, if the Local and/or Remote Filename values exceeded 72 characters, UAG Server failed to properly format the SYSIN DD statement in the JCL used to execute UFTP. The z/OS Agent now ensures that such values are properly terminated at column 72 and continued to the next line. |
Universal FTP Client
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| B-13820 | Unix | UAGSRV |
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The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
B-13831
Unix
Windows
UAGSRV
UBROKER
UEXT
PKG
Provide the ability for Universal Extensions to detect and respond to Cancel commands issued from Universal Controller.
This option provides the new UAG Server configuration option, EXTENSION_CANCEL_TIMEOUT.
The ability to configure that value at install time and/or Universal Broker startup is also provided.
| Note | ||
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The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
D-10189
z/OS
PKG
Establish a connection to the (S)FTP Server before attempting the requested transfer operation. This will allow connection-specific failures to be isolated and reported.
To support this change, the following message:
UNV3707E cURL reports could not connect.
was replaced with:
UNV6955E Unable to establish an FTP server connection (curl_rc): curl_msg
where curl_rc and curl_msg are the return code and error message, respectively, that identify the problem.
In addition, UFTP now displays the entire connection conversation between it and the Server without requiring the -verbose option.
Universal Message Service (OMS)
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Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
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| D-10417 | Unix | OMSSRV | Fix an issue that prevents a zOS Agent using IBM System SSL (i.e., RACF-based keyrings) from connecting to an OMS Server. |
| D-10567 | Unix | OMSSRV | When OMS Server's AUTHENTICATE_PEER option is no, fix an issue that will cause OMS to accept an SSL connection when no client certificate is presented, even when an OMS_ACCESS UACL rule exists to reject such connections. |