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Universal Agent Server Release 7.1.0.0 - September 30, 2021
Universal Agent Server Release 7.1.0.0 - September 30, 2021
Release 7.1.0.0 - September 30, 2021


Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

B-10691 

All 

UAGSRV 
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-13282 

z/OS 

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: 

  • B-13184: Allow a secondary agent to become a primary agent upon failover. 
  • B-13186: Allow a primary agent to become a secondary agent upon failover. 
  • B-13283: Provide the ability to configure a failover hierarchy, to determine the order in which secondary agents are chosen to become the new primary agent. 
  • B-13284: Provide the ability to stop a Universal Broker started task WITHOUT initiating a failover. 
  • B-13285: Provide the ability to stop a Universal Broker started task AND initiate a failover.  
  • B-13291: Allow a new primary agent to receive tracking data for jobs submitted or executed by the previous primary agent. 
  • B-13964: Ensure that licenses obtained from Universal Controller are handled properly within the updated primary and secondary agents whenever a failover occurs
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To ensure proper accounting for z/OS licenses, we recommend that all UAG Servers configured to run in a sysplex environment use the same value for the UAG Server’s NETNAME configuration option.

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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The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. 

B-13820 

Unix 
Windows 

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 
  • EXTENSION_CANCEL_TIMEOUT
Note
titleNote

The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension.


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. 

D-07313 

Unix 
Windows 

UAGSRV 

Improve message handling and separation to prevent possible message loss. 

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-10346 

z/OS 

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-10415 

Windows 

UAGSRV 

Fixes an issue introduced in UA 7.0.0.0 that caused incorrect translation of UTF8 characters in Windows scripts. 

D-10470 

Linux PPC 

All 

Prevent a crash during OpenSSL random number generation seeding observed on RHEL8 on a PowerPC system. 


Universal Broker

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Universal Broker Release 7.1.0.0 - September 30, 2021
Universal Broker Release 7.1.0.0 - September 30, 2021
Release 7.1.0.0 - September 30, 2021

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

B-13820 

Unix 
Windows 

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 
  • EXTENSION_CANCEL_TIMEOUT
Note
titleNote

The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension.


B-13885 

z/OS 

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. 

D-10426 

z/OS 

UBROKER 

Fixes a problem that prevented UBROKER startup while loading the UNVACTRT SMF exit. 

D-10470 

Linux PPC 

All 

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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Component

Description

B-10365
B-12882


All

UCMD
UCTL
UEM
UFTP
USAP
UPPS

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-11148

Linux s390x

All

Update SSL/TLS support to OpenSSL 1.1.1b.

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