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This page identifies the changes made in all Universal Agent 7.01.x maintenance releases, including the initial release, for all supported platforms.
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For a list of changes made to optional Agent 7.01.x packages, such as Universal Command Agent for SOA 6.7.x, see the platform-specific Maintenance Levels pages.
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September 30, 2021
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B-06093z/OS10691 | All | UAGSRV |
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B-07134 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Issue an error when a z/OS File Monitor task definition attempts to use a feature that is not supported. Attempts to use the following features for native z/OS File Monitor tasks will now issue an error:
Attempts to use the following features for Remote File Monitor tasks on z/OS will now issue an error:
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B-09713 | All | UFTP | Add timestamp parameter support to message_level option | |||||
B-10102 | Unix | UAGSRV | Enable fault tolerance for Linux/Unix tasks to allow timeouts against authentication servers (for example, LDAP) to automatically restart. Enables the following configuration options for Unix:
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B-10106 | All | UBROKER | Increase the RSA key length from 1024 to 2048 for the Broker’s internal self-signed certificate. | All | UCMD | Expand the number of characters supported for password values by creating a custom parsing routine to handle them. Relaxes some rules for specifying passwords, such as permitting values that start with or contain characters traditionally used for delimiting command line options. | ||
B-10681 | Linux s390x | PKG | Update the package and installation requirements for the Agent on Linux s390x. The install now requires the following:
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B-11274 | z/OS | UDM | Preserve an existing dataset’s attributes if it is used for the savedata command. | |||||
B-11140 | All | UFTP | Provide distinct exit codes for different situations like connection failures or authentication errors. The follow set of exit codes are now possible:
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B-11148 | Linux s390x | All | Update SSL/TLS support to OpenSSL 1.1.1b. | |||||
B-11537 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Extend file monitor support for secondary agents in a sysplex environment | |||||
B-11538 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Extend “Cancel Job” support for jobs running on any sysplex node | |||||
B-12368 | All | UAGSRV | Remove ability to configure the enable_ssl option. The ability to create an SSL connection with an OMS Server is always enabled. NOTE: The OMS Server’s require_ssl option will ultimately determine whether the connection uses SSL. | |||||
B-12442 | Unix | PKG | Remove the ability to configure the enable_ssl option for UAGSRV at install time. B-12368 delivered a change whereby the ability for UAGSRV to create an SSL connection with an OMS Server is always enabled. | |||||
B-12443 | Solaris | PKG | Change the execution of the zonecfg command to support changes introduced for Solaris 11.4. The install script executes the zonecfg command to determine whether the Agent is being installed in a global zone. | |||||
B-12755 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Improve the Agent’s response when a coupling facility encounters a “Structure Full” condition. | |||||
B-12811 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Add handling for the SETXCF START,REALLOCATE command. | |||||
B-12884 | All | UDM | Expand the set of characters that a UDM script can support for password values. | |||||
B-12928 | Unix | Python | Provide the new and updated external modules list below in the Python Distribution for Universal Agent. Modules are only provided by the Linux Intel RPM and Debian packages and Windows, except where noted.
Removed from all except AIX and Solaris SPARC:
NOTE: The HP-UX agent install does not provide a Python distribution. | |||||
B-12986 | Unix | UEXT |
UFTP | 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-12809 | All (except HP-UX and Solaris Intel) | USAP | Update USAP to support the RSPARAMSL_255 data type for variants. The following USAP operations may now take advantage of this change:
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. 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). | |||||
B-13282 | zOS | UAGSRV | Add automatic failover support for Agents configured to execute in a sysplex environment. The following items were delivered for UA 7.1.0.0 to support this feature:
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B-13316 | Unix (except HP-UX) Windows | 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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B-13768 | Unix | UAGSRV | Improve response and performance when several file monitor tasks that check file stability run concurrently. | |||||
B-13819 | Unix Windows | UEXT | 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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B-13820 | Unix Windows | UAGSRV UBROKER PKG | Allow the following Universal Extension config options to be set at install time or via Broker startup:
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B-13822 | Windows | UEXT | Allow usermode installs to discover the Python distribution provided by a system mode-installed Agent.
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B-13831 | Unix Windows | UEXT | Provide the ability for Universal Extensions to detect and respond to Cancel commands issued from Universal Controller.
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B-13846 | Unix Windows | 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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B-13860 | Unix Windows | 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 like logger.info(‘msg’) or logger.error(‘msg’).
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B-13885 | zOS | UBROKER | 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. | |||||
B-13908 | Unix Windows | 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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B-13931 | Unix Windows | UC | OMS Java Client - Add support of service timeout TBD: Is this included in UC maintenance list? | |||||
B-13989 | Windows | 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. Please see the Universal Extension development documentation for information on this new “uip” utility.
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B-13991 | Windows | UEXT | Create a VisualStudio Code plugin to interact with the new uip command line utility delivered by B-13991.
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B-14049 | Unix Windows | UAGSRV UEXT | Ensure that any instances of a password exposed by a Universal Extension task are scrubbed from the UAG Server cache files. | |||||
B-14255 | Windows | UEXT | 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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B-13008 | AIX | PKG | Update the package and installation requirements for the Agent on AIX. The install now requires the following:
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B-13106 | All | UBROKER | During local license mapping – when the Broker attempts to read locally-configured license information for licensed components – prevent the error below if the configuration file for a particular component is not found.
where ‘xxxx’ is the component name (for example, uacs). | |||||
D-09177 | All | UFTP | Prevent the error:
When a password starts with a dash (‘-‘). | |||||
D-09193 | Unix | UAGSRV | Ensure that a CREATE file monitor (with stability checking selected) ends if the file is removed. This prevents the file monitor from continuing to run when the file is deleted or moved. | |||||
D-09913 | All | UFTP | Fix handling of comma-separated lists for MGET, MPUT, and MDELETE operations | |||||
D-09994 | All | UBROKER | Ensure that UNV message IDs specified by the msg_suppression_list in ubroker.conf are properly suppressed. | |||||
D-10009 | Unix | UFTP | Prevent the error:
When the MKDIR command is used with the SFTP protocol. | |||||
D-10080 | All | UFTP | Fixes a situation where not every file selected for transfer with an MGET command is transferred. The problem presents as UFTP reporting the file being added to the remote file list, but then not being able to find the file when the transfer starts. The problem was most often – but not exclusively -- seen when an FTP or SSH server is listening on ports other than 21 and 22, respectively. | |||||
D-10093 | z/OS | UAGU84 | Prevent a situation in which UAGU84 will receive a S0C4 when UAGRERUN is not APF authorized. | |||||
D-10104 | All | USAP | Fix failure to execute SAP Business Warehouse tasks following licensing updates in UA 6.9.0.0. NOTE: A fix for this is also available in the UA 6.9.0.1 and 6.9.0.2 maintenance releases. | |||||
D-10105 | All | USAP | Prevent SAP InfoPackage job execution from being mistaken as an attempt to run a regular SAP job that uses a model job without the jobid. This fixes an issue introduced in a 6.4.2.x release that eliminated the need for a jobid when running a model job. This change is also available (for all platforms except z/OS) in the UA 6.9.0.2 maintenance release. | |||||
D-10153 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Prevent UAGSRV from ending with an exit code 18 (ABEND S32E REASON=00000324) at startup when no sysplex_role is specified in UBRCFG00. NOTE: This error can occur even in a non-sysplex environment. | |||||
D-10260 | UNIX | UFTP | D-07313 | Unix Windows | UAGSRV | Improve message handling and separation to prevent possible message loss. | ||
D-08997 | zOS | UDM UDMSRV | Prevent a S0C4 when executing transfers of UTF16-encoded datasets. | |||||
D-09852 | Unix zOS | UDM UDMSRV | 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. | |||||
D-09666 | Windows | UAGSRV | Fixes a problem when the -uagstdio option is specified for additional UCMD Options and one or more of that option’s values contains double quotes that must be preserved. | |||||
D-10171 | Windows | UAGSRV | Prevent the agent.log from being inherited by tasks spawned by the Agent. This fixes a problem that caused the agent.log’s scheduled rollover at midnight to fail if Agent tasks were running. | |||||
D-10189 | zOS | PKG | Fix a problem that prevented the installation of hlq.SUNVSAMP(UBRDBSPZ). | |||||
D-10210 | All | UDM UDMSRV | Scrubs any password specified with the OPEN statement from trace file output. | |||||
D-10256 | All | UDM | Fixes a crash that could occur if the UDM Manager message level was set to “trace” from the command line. | |||||
D-10328 | Unix Windows | UEXT | Fixes a problem that causes a requires_python value with a wildcard to be ignored when used with operator other than == or != (e.g., requires_python >= 3.*)
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D-10346 | zOS | UAGSRV
| Fixes a problem that prevented a zOS CHANGE File Monitor task from storing a renamed dataset’s new name in Universal Control variables. | |||||
D-10371 | Unix Windows | OMSSRV | Prevents re-delivery of OMS messages following automatic recovery executed against a corrupted, truncated data file. | |||||
D-10415 | Windows | UAGSRV | Fixes an issue introduced in UA 7.0.0.0 that caused incorrect translation of UTF8 characters in Windows scripts. | |||||
D-10426 | zOS | UBROKER | Fixes a problem that prevented UBROKER startup while loading the UNVACTRT SMF exit. | |||||
D-10435 | Windows | UCMD UCTL UDM UFTP | 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 | zOS | 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 /* The -level option would be ignored unless moved to a separate line: -userid uid -pwd password -level info /* |