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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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Release 6.4.3.0-063018
Release 6.4.3.0-063018
Release 6.4.3.0 - June 30, 2018

Change ID

Platform

Component

Description

B-03530

z/OS

UAGSRV

Reduce dependency on the global LNKLST and allow a STEPLIB to be specified for the OPSSTP00 step which points to UAGRERUN.

B-05053

All

UAGSRV

Make default network provider OMS in UAGSRV configuration.

B-05131

Unix,
Windows

UAGSRV

Add automatic path resolution for UCMD, UDM, and USAP when executed from UAG.

B-05140

All

UAGSRV

Remove obsolete options that previously supported message hub and transport components.

B-07082

Unix,
Windows

Install

Add option to install to disable UAGSRV execution at Universal Broker startup.

B-07325

z/OS

UAGSRV

Display the UAGRERUN version in the rerun report.

B-08953

All

UDM,
UDMSRV

Add support for sleep statement to scripting language.

B-09033

Unix (all, except HPUX),
Windows

Install

Bundle a Python3 distribution with the Universal Agent.
 
NOTE: This option is not available for user mode installs.

B-09121

All

UFTP

Add wildcard support for GET/PUT/DELETE commands, allowing them to operate on one or more files.

B-09213

z/OS

UAGSRV,
UAGRERUN

Reduce dependency on SMF exits by moving rerun/restart behavior from UAGUJI to UAGRERUN.

B-09240

Unix,
Windows

Install

Add ability to set the agent_clusters option in UAGSRV’s configuration.

B-09258

All

UFTP

Improve error reporting when an attempt is made to transfer multiple files to a destination that is not a directory.

B-09268

All

UFTP

Remove wildcard requirements for MGET/MPUT/MDELETE commands, allowing them to operate on single files.

B-09287

Unix,
Windows

UPPS

Stop WAITing for a job and consider item complete when its distribution status is NA and it has a runtime status of Cancelled.

B-09298

Unix,
Windows

UPPS

Add agent support for the Controller’s new PeopleSoft task type.

B-09304

Unix

UAGSRV

Add the -bif_directory option to the command line for spawned UCMD, UDM, UFTP, and USAP tasks to ensure components executed from a user mode install register with the correct local Broker.

B-09338

z/OS

UAGSRV,
UAGRERUN

Improve sequential dataset cleanup for reruns/restarts.

B-09340

z/OS

UAGSRV,
UAGRERUN

Improve GDG dataset cleanup when a z/OS task is rerun/restarted.

B-09349

z/OS

UBROKER

Create external links to UCMD Manager and USAP from Broker to support z/OS 2.3 requirements.

B-09354

Unix,
Windows

UFTP

Increase maximum allowable packet size for SFTP transfers.

B-09384

Unix,
Windows

OMSSRV

Refresh message level for OMS Server in response to a UCTL refresh command.

B-09386

Unix,
Windows

OMS Client

Improve diagnostic information collection in the OMS Java client, which exchanges messages between an OMS Server and the Controller.

B-09418

Unix,
Windows

Install

Add ability to set the agent_ip option in UAGSRV’s configuration.

B-09469

z/OS

UAGRERUN,
UAGUJI

Move skip step and step list processing from UAGUJI SMF exit to UAGRERUN, along with restartable/non-restartable step eligibility and dataset deletion criteria.
This change effectively deprecates UAGUJI, which is no longer provided in the z/OS delivery.

B-09481

Unix,
Windows

UPPS

Add ability to retrieve Output Destination Format options.

B-09508

All

UDM,
UDMSRV

Add session attributes ostype and casesensitive attributes to provide OS and file system information.

D-06562

All

UDM,
UDMSRV

Wildcard token parsing from a forfiles loop does not always honor the file system’s case sensitivity rules.

D-08988

Unix

UAGSRV

Fixes behavior where a file monitor task may stop monitoring or fail under heavy load or unusual circumstances.

D-09000

z/OS

UCERT

Fix revocation date value when printing a CRL from z/OS.

D-09069

z/OS

UAGSRV

Correct “Missing command option prefix character” error on z/OS when commands exist in the Additional FTP Commands field of an FTP File Monitor task.

D-09102

Windows

UAGSRV

Fix a problem where a System Monitor executed on Windows may not authenticate specified task credentials correctly.

D-09212

All

UFTP

Prevent exception if user does not have access to the local source directory when executing an (M)PUT command.

D-09122

All

UCMD,
UCTL,
UDM,
UDMSRV,
UEM,
UFTP

Fixes a situation in which Universal Encrypted files may be left open after decryption. Such files are now closed immediately after decryption.

D-09127

z/OS

UAGSRV

Prevent creation of an empty DSN exclude list if no datasets are specified for exclusion from dataset cleanup upon a rerun/restart.

D-09174

Unix,
Windows

UAGSRV

Fix a problem where FTP file monitors may not honor the specified polling time.

D-09237

Windows

UBROKER

Create a ubroker.shd file at shutdown to allow a Universal Broker service to restart even if ubroker.pid file was not deleted by previous instance.

D-09262

z/OS

UAGCMDZ

Fix a problem where a uencrypted command file is not recognized when prefixed by ‘dd:’. The ‘dd:’ prefix is now optional when specified with the -x command line option.

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Release 6.4.2.2-032318
Release 6.4.2.2-032318
Release 6.4.2.2 - March 23, 2018

Change ID

Platform

Component

Description

B-09118

UNIX (Linux, x64
RPM-based only),
Windows (x64 only)

USAP

Modify USAP "generate job definition" command to generate an XBP 3.0 style spool list recipient.

B-09251

UNIX (Linux, x64
RPM-based only),
Windows (x64 only)

USAP,
UAGSRV

Run an SAP Model Job and Generate an SAP Job Definition without providing a Jobcount ID.
 

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titleNote

Only the version number changed for UAGSRV, to support integration with a new feature delivered for the Universal Controller SAP task type (see B-09299 in the Universal Controller 6.4.x Maintenance).

D-09063

UNIX (Linux, x64
RPM-based only),
Windows (x64 only)

USAP

XBP 2.0 style spool list recipient does not get defined properly from USAP job definition.

D-09139

z/OS                          

UAGSRV

Correct an issue that may cause UAGSRV to ABEND when a large job is submitted for rerun.

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Release 6.4.2.1-022818
Release 6.4.2.1-022818
Release 6.4.2.1 - February 28, 2018

Change ID

Platform

Component

Description

B-09090

Unix (Linux)

Install

Deliver RPM package for PowerPC (Little Endian) port of Universal Agent.

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Release 6.4.2.1
Release 6.4.2.1
Release 6.4.2.1 - February 9, 2018

Change ID

Platform

Component

Description

B-09082

Windows

Install

Remove delivery of Microsoft VisualC++ 2005 runtime libraries, which have been superseded by the 2010 runtimes.

B-09094

Windows

Install
(user mode only)

Update interface to ubrsvc.bat with -start, -restart, and -status options.

D-08901

z/OS

UAGSRV,
UFTP

Convert LOCSITE options passed via the z/OS subcommand field to UFTP-specific options.

D-09064

Unix,
Windows

UFTP

(M)DELETE and (M)GET with move fail when remote relative path is specified for an SFTP file transfer task.

D-09067

Unix,
Windows,
z/OS

UFTP

When the file path specified by the -src option contains no trailing slash, its LIST output differs from the output shown when the trailing slash is specified.

D-09068

Windows

Install
(user mode only)

Ensure that UCMD, UDM, UFTP, and USAP always register with the correct local Universal Broker when executed via a Controller task on a user mode-installed Agent.

D-09082

Unix (AIX)

Install

AIX upgrade fails because of existing an ./archive1/.archive1 directory.

D-09087

Windows

UAGSRV

An application monitor that executes with credentials could cause UAGSRV to crash.

D-09089

Unix,
Windows

UAGSRV

If the command line options that UAGSRV sends over STDIN to execute a Universal Command or Universal Connector for SAP are unexpectedly written to STDERR, a password in plain text may be exposed.

D-09096

Unix,
Windows,
z/OS

UFTP

Do not treat a CURLE_PARTIAL_FILE (18) return code value as a failure when it is accompanied by a server return code of 450.

D-09097

z/OS

UFTP

Accept FTP server passwords up to 255 characters when a z/OS UFTP client is executed via a File Transfer task.

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Release 6.4.2.0
Release 6.4.2.0
Release 6.4.2.0 - December 31, 2017

Change ID

Platform

Component

Description

B-05451

Windows

Install

Add ability to install multiple agent instances on Windows using a new user-mode install package.

B-06263

z/OS

UAGSRV

Add support for job classes up to 8 characters.

B-07295

Unix,
Windows

UAGSRV,
UFTP

Add support for passphrase-protected SSH keys to UFTP.

B-08533

All

UCERT

Add ability to generate certificate requests with a version of 3 and exponent of 65537.

B-08534

All

UCERT

Allow an existing private key to be used when creating certificate request.

B-08563

Unix (Linux RPM),
Windows

UPPS

Allow Submit Command options to be specified from the command line and a definition file.

B-08592

z/OS

UCMD

Add ability to scrub IBM Tivoli Workstation variables (specified with //*%OPC) from scripts executed via UCMD. Other patterns may also be scrubbed using the script_line_ignore_mask option.

B-08786

Unix

Install

Remove ops_sshpwd from the Unix install packages.

B-08852

z/OS

UAGSRV

Make UAG aware of other UAG instances in the Sysplex.

B-08853

All

UCERT

Accept key sizes greater than 2048. 3072 and 4096 are now supported.

B-08855

All

UFTP

Make the trailing slash optional when issuing a LIST command against a directory.

B-08909

Unix

UAGSRV

Do not use (or try to use) a login shell if the user id in a task’s credentials starts with ‘-‘.

B-08961

All

UAGSRV

Add ability for agent to support passwords up to 512 characters in length.

B-09076

All

UFTP

Add additional return code values from libcURL operations to improve problem diagnosis.

D-03338

z/OS

UCMDSRV

Fixes a problem where UCMDSRV allocates a new EMCS console with each instance, causing EMCS consoles to be over time. UCMSRV will now attempt to reuse a EMCS console name before allocating a new one.

D-06417

Windows

UAGSRV

CPU utilization not transferred from Windows agents.

D-06979

z/OS

UAGSRV

Remove an extra MSGCLASS keyword from the JOB statement when New Jobname is specified in the z/OS task.

D-07169

Unix,
Windows
z/OS

UAGCMD

UAGCMDZ

Add support for TLS 1.2 sessions and cipher suites.

D-07315

All

UCERT

Add support for MD5, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 signature algorithms. SHA-1 is still supported, and is the default.

D-08672

z/OS

UAGSRV

Improve detection of NOT CATLGD 2 errors via additional support for post-execution errors.

D-08760

All

UAGSRV

Add “UFTP login failed” to task instance description when file transfer task fails due to login error.

D-08778

All

UAGSRV,
UFTP

Fix error in file transfer/FTP file monitor tasks when part of the path is enclosed in double quotes.

D-08907

All

UFTP

SFTP transfer fails with exit code 79, "generic error reported from the SSH layer".

D-08955

z/OS

UAGSRV

Improve handling of CA-7 #JO JCL omit statement.

D-08958

Unix,
Windows

USAP

USAP variant modification command fails.

D-08965

Unix,
Windows

UAGSRV

Double slash in the URL in between the host name and the path causes the "No such file or directory" error on some of SFTP servers.

D-08978

z/OS

UAGSRV

Improve post-execution error handling so that NOT CATLGD 2 on GDG does will result in a JCL error being reported for the task.

D-08980

ALL

UFTP

The -src option for the LIST command should be optional. When no path is specified for the -src option, the contents of the user’s home directory or server’s rooted location is shown.

D-08981

Unix,
Windows

UFTP

Return a file’s path when executing a list so Controller variables are populated correctly when an SFTP file monitor executes.

D-08984

All

UCERT

Add ability to specify SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, or SHA-512 signature algorithms when creating a CRL.

D-08985

All

UCERT

Add support for configurable encryption for transport files.

D-08989

All

UAGSRV

If a task is submitted with a valid credential that contains a password of exactly 40 characters, the task will complete successfully although the command is not run.

D-08994

z/OS

UAGUJI

When SWA=ABOVE is configured for an initiator on zOS 2.1 ,UAGUJI can receive ABEND 0B0-24 after calling SWAREQ.

D-08996

Unix (AIX)

Install

AIX permissions for sample def files have wrong filesystem permissions.

D-08999

All

UFTP

Multi-line FTP server responses not handled by command callbacks.

D-09012

All

UCERT

Revoke reason priviledgeWithdrawn is misspelled. Corrected to accept privilegeWithdrawn.

D-09017

All

UCERT

Incorrect Revocation Reasons in CRL.

D-09021

Unix (Solaris SPARC)

Install

Require SUNW_1.3.1 patch level for libxnet.so.

D-09028

All

UCERT

Unspecified Revoke Reason SHOULD be absent instead of using the unspecified (0) reasonCode value.

D-09029

All

UCERT

Misspelled revocation reasons "affliationChange" and "priviledgeWithdrawn" are accepted.

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