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Overview
This page identifies the changes made in all Universal Agent 7.56.x maintenance releases, including the initial release, for all supported platforms.
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For a list of changes made to optional Agent 7.56.x packages, such as Universal Command Agent for SOA 6.7.x, see the platform-specific Maintenance Levels pages.
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Install changes refer to changes to the programs, scripts, or supporting files used to install the package. There are no changes to the actual product components. |
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April 3, 2024
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Ensure that failed attempts to launch child processes spawned by UAG Server (via the ./ubroker/sbin/cskern
utility) are handled gracefully.
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Improves threading support for some OpenSSL functions to prevent UAG Server unexpected terminating with an exit code 8 or an 0C4 ABEND.
Release 7.5.0.3 - February 13, 2024
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Fixes an intermittent issue where UAGSRV may terminate abnormally when stopped with the Universal Control utility (UCTL). The failure is not common, and was observed only when the UAG Server JTSK_NUM configuration option was set to its maximum value of 64.
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Fixes an issue where Program and Variant Names do not appear in their respective drop down lists when adding an ABAP Program Job Step to an SAP Task.
The failure applies to Load Balancing (Type-B) connections only and results in a "Missing required Value for RFC Connection" error.
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Resolves unexpected behavior for a z/OS task, under the following conditions:
- The z/OS task contains a Step Condition that is defined treat an ABEND as an expected result, by specifying an action of Continue/Success
- A subsequent step in the z/OS task's JCL contains an EXEC COND= parameter that references the ABENDed step, that would normally prevent execution of the step
Prior to this fix, the EXEC COND= parameter is not honored when the ABEND occurs, and the step executes.
This fix ensures the Step Condition and the EXEC COND= configuration is honored.
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Release 7.5.0.2 - January 9, 2024
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Release 7.5.0.1 - December 12, 2023
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Release 7.5.0.0 - October 13, 2023
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B-11499 | All | OMSSRV | Provides changes that:
| B-15847 | Windows | UIP-VSCODE | Add the ability for the VisualStudio Code Plugin for Universal Extension development to detect when an extension's implementation no longer matches the extension template defined in the Controller.
B-16795 | Unix | UAGSRV | Improve the management and display of an Agent task's output that contains diacritic characters and other language-specific features when that output is viewed from the Controller. | ||
B-16797 | Unix Windows | UAGSRV | Add the ability to control exactly where a script is written by defining the following environment variables in a task:
Neither of these variables need to be defined for a task that does not execute in an isolated, secure environment. | ||
B-16800 | Windows | UIP-VSCODE | Add support for multi-root workspaces to the VisualStudio Code Plugin for Universal Extension development. This support will allow extension developers to work on several different extensions in the same VSCode workspace. | ||
B-16813 | Unix Windows | UAGSRV | Improve the Universal Agent Server's warm start processing so that a re-starting Agent will display an "Active" status in the Universal Controller with minimal delay. | ||
B-16881 | Unix | INSTALL | Certify the Universal Agent for Linux RedHat and Ubuntu distributions that provide a version 5 kernel. | ||
B-16882 | Windows | UIP-VSCODE | Improve the initialization of a new Universal Extension project by automatically creating that project's folder if it does not already exist. | ||
B-17048 | Unix | OMSSRV | Add the ability for Universal Control to refresh an OMS Server's MAX_MSG_SIZE and MSG_CHUNK_SIZE configuration options without requiring a server restart. | ||
B-17449 | All | UBROKER | Revisit changes previously delivered by B-14668 in Universal Agent 7.3.0.0. That delivery provided the ability to automatically recover a Universal Broker database that failed validation at startup. However, to provide backward compatibility, that feature was not enabled by default and had to be manually configured across the enterprise with the Universal Broker RECREATE_DATABASES configuration option. The UA 7.5.0.0 release provides the following changes to the automatic Broker database recovery feature:
The intent of the updated behavior is to improve Agent resiliency and recoverability while retaining some ability to manage these database files. | B-17457 | Unix | UAGSRV USAP | Provides Universal Agent support for SAP Task enhancements and improved form layout provided by Universal Controller 7.5.0.0.
B-17520 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Add the ability to edit JCL in a zOS task's JCL Location or JCL Override Location directly from the Controller. | ||
B-17521 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Add Agent support to zOS tasks for Controller Task Simulations. Any symbols that are defined in the JCL will be resolved when the simulation is run. | ||
B-17523 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Provide the ability to dynamically add or override the USER keyword on a JOB Statement using the new UAG Server configuration option ZOS_JOB_USER. | ||
B-17583 B-17656 B-17657 | Unix (except HP-UX and Solaris) Windows | OMSSRV UAGSRV UEXT | Add the ability to define activity tracing and collect performance metrics for Universal Extension tasks, OMS Server, and UAG Server. Data is collected by an OpenTelemetry collector, making it suitable for display in front-end applications like Grafana and Jaeger. | ||
B-17602 | All | UFTP | Remove support for the TFTP protocol. | ||
B-17655 | Unix | INSTALL | Update runtime requirements for the Universal Agent distribution for Linux Ubuntu. | ||
B-17755 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Add Agent support for the new Trigger on Create option for Change file monitors. This allows a zOS agent to look for dataset creations or changes from the same file monitor task instance. | ||
B-18306 | Windows | UIP-VSCODE | Allow Universal Extensions that use the built-in OpenTelemetry framework to debug those extensions from the UIP VisualStudio Code Plugin. | ||
D-07391 | Unix Windows | UAGSRV | Fixes a problem where the output for a task will contain the first character of the next line that exceeds the number of output lines the task is configured to automatically retrieve. For this problem to occur, a task
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D-11115 | Unix (except HP-UX) Windows | UAGSRV UEXT | Fixes a problem where the requires_python field of a Universal Extension fails to detect or select a suitable Python executable when comparison operators less than (<) or greater than (>) are used. | ||
D-11137 | Windows | UAGSRV | Fixes a problem with file monitor tasks that specify a file path with a double backslash as a separator (e.g. C:\\work\\pattern*.txt ). The file monitor task issues the error "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect." and then fails with a Start Failure. | ||
D-11156 | Unix | UAGSRV | Ensure that all file descriptors are properly closed when a task fails because credentials were specified for a user account that does not exist. | ||
D-11160 | Unix Windows | OMSSRV | Fix a memory leak that can occur in OMS Servers that communicate with a UAG Server via a proxy server connection. | ||
D-11166 | Unix Windows | UFTP | Fixes an issue that causes UFTP to fail when multiple files are transferred to a remote directory path that contains spaces. | ||
D-11174 | All | UCMD UCTL UEM UFTP | Prevent an error when the value of the - pwd option contains a single space (e.g., -pwd " " ). | ||
D-11178 | Unix | UAGSRV | Fixes an issue that could result in excessive CPU consumption when UAG Server launches and/or executes several different task types concurrently. | D-11189 | All | OMSSRV UAGSRV UBROKER UCMD UCMSRV UCTL UCTSRV UDM UDMSRV UFTP | Update the OpenSSL library used by Universal Agent components to 1.1.1u.
D-11222 | Unix | UBROKER | In AIX environments whose locale is set to UTF8, fix an error in the ubrokerd startup script that failed to properly recognize ulimit values set to unlimited. | ||
D-11226 | z/OS | UFTP | Fixes an error that causes transfers across z/OS systems to fail when using the SFTP protocol. | ||
D-11229 | All | UCMD | Fixes a "checksum mismatch" error when a Universal Encrypted file is decrypted and one of the comment lines inserted into the file exceeds 80 characters. | D-11238 | Unix | UFTP | Update the libssh2 library used by Universal Agent components from 1.9.0 to 1.10.0.
D-11333 | Windows | INSTALL | Fixes a problem introduced in the 7.4.0.0 release that may cause upgrades to fail if the Python distribution for Universal Agent is installed. | ||
D-11334 | Windows | UAGSRV UEXT | Improves the efficiency of the termination logic when a Universal Extension tasks on Windows finishes. | ||
D-11335 | Windows | UAGSRV | Fixes an issue that prevents successful completion of a Change file monitor instance when the file path contains double backslashes (i.e., \\) or a single forward slash (i.e., /). Prior to this fix, the task instance remains in a Running status. | ||
D-11342 | Unix Windows | UAGSRV | Ensures that any temporary files created by Universal Extension tasks are properly removed following completion of UAG Server warm start processing. | D-11345 | Windows | INSTALL | Honor the USE_TLS1_3 command line parameter for upgrades from UA 7.4.0.x and later. This was done for parity with Unix installs.D-11353 | All | UFTP UPPS | Update the libcURL library used by Universal Agent components to 7.88.1 for Unix/Windows and 7.81.0 for zOS.
D-11362 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Fixes a problem that may cause an extra USER= parameter to get added to the JCL's job card created for a File Transfer task. | ||
D-11392 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Prevent an error when a z/OS task is rerun under the following conditions:
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D-11403 | Unix (except HP-UX) Windows | UEXT | Fixes an issue which may cause a Universal Extension task to stay in a "Running" status if an exception is raised in the __init__ method. | D-11411 | z/OS | UCMD UCTL UEM UFTP USAP | Fixes a problem introduced in UA 7.3.0.0 that prevents Universal Agent components from reading a plain-text command file specified with the -f / -file option in a job's SYSIN.
D-11413 | z/OS | UDM UDMSRV | Fixes a situation in which a UDM file transfer will fail if an attempt is made to allocate a zOS dataset with an EXPDT equal to one of the following special values:
When none of the above 5-digit values are used, UDM will still expect a 7-digit expiration date as it did prior to this change. | ||
D-11424 | z/OS | UAGU83 | Fixes a problem where an ABEND within the UAGU83 SMF exit module could cause RMF to terminate with an S0C1. | ||
D-11439 | z/OS | UBROKER | Fixes a problem that may cause the Universal Broker's COMPONENT_START to fail on z/OS when System SSL is used | ||
D-11453 | Unix (except HP-UX) Windows | UEXT | Prevent a Universal Extension task failure on systems that only have Python 2 installed. | ||
D-11470 | Unix (except HP-UX) | UAGSRV UEXT | Fix an issue that may cause a CANCEL command issued for a Universal Extension task to take longer than necessary to process. | ||
D-11472 | Unix Windows | UAGSRV | Remove an extra line that is shown in the Universal Broker log when the Broker is run in console mode and UAG Server encounters a job launch failure. | ||
D-11478 | Unix | UAGSRV | Fixes an issue that may cause messages intended for the ops_monitor process to be consumed by UAG Server and sent to a file transfer task, which could cause its failure. | ||
D-11503 | Unix (Linux only) | PYTHON | Update the Universal Agent's Python distribution to prevent failures when libffi.so.6 is not installed on newer Linux RedHat and Ubuntu distributions. | ||
D-11511 | Unix Windows | USAP | Fix an error that could cause USAP to crash when displaying spool lists. | ||
D-11521 | z/OS | INSTALL | Fixes an installation error in which the sample UAGRRPRC mentioned in user documentation (to support configurable UAGRERUN handling) is missing from SUNVSAMP following a 7.4.0.0 or 7.4.1.0 installationz/OS | Enhance options used to override a CA-7 Schedule ID with the following changes:
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B-15814 | z/OS | UAG: Create local data store to hold job execution and checkpoint information to support standalone execution UAG for z/OS can now maintain a local job history dataset which can be used to manually rerun jobs executed by UAG. Jobs rerun manually in this manner are not monitored or tracked by UAG or UC. See UAGCFG00 configuration options history_dataset and history_retention and installation job UNVIN12 for details on how to create and configure this functionality. See: "UAGRERUN Stand Alone Execution" in the Universal Agent User Guide for details on stand alone rerun execution. | |||
B-15867 | Windows | PKG | Sign all Universal Agent binaries and packages with a digital signing certificate. Certificate information is available the files' properties, as viewed from Windows Explorer. | ||
B-16966 | z/OS | Ubroker should mount UNVSPOOL with RWSHARE in Sysplex The broker will now mount filesystem UNVSPOOL with the zFS RWSHARE option in a Sysplex to prevent sharing violations. | |||
B-16983 | UA : Support Credential Functions in Template Text and Array Fields | ||||
B-17011 | UA : Add Utility Credential Functions for UDM Tasks | ||||
B-17038 | Solaris Intel Solaris SPARC | PKG | PKG: Drop Solaris 10 Support, Migrate to Solaris 11 | ||
B-17111 | IBMi: Validate AS400 Agent with IBMi 7.5 | ||||
B-17780 | z/OS | Support for JES2 /*ROUTE PRINT statements When a job submitted by UAG contains a JES2 /*ROUTE PRINT statement, the output can be routed to another system before UAG has a chance to process it. UAG Will now recognize the existence of these statements and comment them out while saving the destination. The job's output will be temporarily routed to the output class specified on the jes_sysout_class configuration parameter in UAGCFG00. When output processing is complete, UAG then route the job's output to the original class and destination. | |||
B-17883 | All | PKG | Add PGP signatures to Universal Agent distribution files. For information on verifying these signatures, please refer to the following information. | ||
B-17891 | Integrate OpenTelemetry Tracing in UFTP | ||||
B-17927 | z/OS | z/OS - Add support for EXEC RD parameter New behavior. This backlog adds support for the JCL RD keyword on the JOB and EXEC statements. When RD=NR or RD=NC is specified, the affected step will be marked as non-restartable by UAG. This new behavior can be disabled with the NORDNR UAGRERUN parameter. See new configuration option rerun_options in UAGCFG00 for disabling this behavior globally. | |||
B-17935 | UA: Update Python distribution to 3.11.6 | ||||
B-18417 | Support Deletion of unexpired datasets When the UAGRERUN program deletes datasets prior to a run or rerun of a job, it will now override the expiration date, if any. | ||||
B-18551 | UA SAP Task Enhancement: Job Steps - External Command | ||||
B-18578 | All | UAGSRV | AUTHVER 3 uses dynamically-generated keys to further encrypt sensitive information passed from Controller to Agent. This is the Agent implementation, which deprecates the AUTHVER UAGSRV configuration | ||
B-18723 | Automate generation of PROGxx ADD EXIT statements | ||||
B-18730 | UIP: Add support for array fields in event attributes | ||||
D-10536 | z/OS | UAGSRV | When the Universal Agent AGENT_IP configuration option specifies an IP address instead of a host name, eliminate the UNV0182E 'Cannot resolve' error, and accept the IP address as entered. | ||
D-11115 | UIP requires_python is not correctly affecting the python executable used by a Universal Extension task | ||||
D-11139 | 'extensions' folder is not created automatically when you mount a different path for data_directory | ||||
D-11174 | UA: -pwd doesn't work with just a space inside quotes or without a value | ||||
D-11383 | UAG: uagsrv may crash on simultaneous completion of Remote File Monitors | ||||
D-11411 | USAP no longer recognizes Command File Option for USS plain text file | ||||
D-11431 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Always insert the UAGRERUN step ahead of any IF statements in the JCL. This will ensure that UAGRERUN is executed ahead of any initial EXEC or PROC statement that may be enclosed within an IF statement. | ||
D-11478 | File Transfer task with UDM Form fails with Invalid Command error | ||||
D-11526 | VSCode Plugin: "Start Debugging" button does not work | ||||
D-11555 | USAP: SAP spool output takes much longer on Windows | ||||
D-11862 | VS Code: KeyError when debugging Dynamic Choice Command | ||||
D-11889 | UA: Self-signed certificate prevents UC-OMS connections on newer Linux distributions | ||||
D-11900 | Specifically, the scenario that generated the cskern core dump involves setting either the runtime directory or UAG_SCRIPT_DIRECTORY /UAG_SCRIPT_DIRECTORY_RELATIVE_TO environment variable(s) in the Controller field to an invalid path. | ||||
D-11974 | USAP: Dynamic Command is missing connection parameters for a Load Balancing (Type-B) connection. | ||||
D-12221 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Prevent a JCL error by ensuring that line numbers are not pulled into a JCL statement when
The fix also prevents truncation of JCL statements that contain in-line data with hexadecimal values. | ||
D-12222 | z/OS | UAG: Improve handling of ABEND Step Conditions When a step ABENDs and a Step Condition is used to ignore the ABEND (OK/Contiue), a subsequent step which references the ABENDing step in a JCL COND= keyword can execute, even if it normally would not. With this fix, any step which references an ABENDing step will not execute. | |||
D-12223 | UAG/Windows: Error 59 (ERROR_UNEXP_NET_ERR) is not retryable in fault tolerant Agent File Monitor | ||||
D-12295 | UAG segmentation faults when it starts with queued messages | ||||
D-12304 | UAG/zOS 0C4 abend in OpenSSL library on busy systems | ||||
D-12323 | PKG: UA Python distribution unable to import _ssl module | ||||
D-12338 | Windows | UEXT | Universal Extensions do not fully support Python's async functionality with Python 3.9+. This defect adds additional changes to the Universal Extension framework to fully support the async functionality in normal task execution, dynamic commands, and dynamic choice commands. |