Release Notes

Universal Agent release 6.6 contains the following high level features, for a complete list of all the included features and fixes please refer to the release maintenance list.

UBROKER Enhancements
UDM Enhancements
UFTP Enhancements
USAP Enhancements
UAG Enhancements

UBROKER Enhancements

B-08841
Local Broker should only send UCTL -stop to UCMSRV host when zOS UCMMGR is cancelled

The UBROKER on zOS has been changed to only pass to UControl the specific host that a Universal Command manager was connected to in the event of needing to send a stop command to the Universal command Server when the zOS Universal Command Manager is cancelled.

Previously if the user has specified a very long host list in the Universal command Manager, the resulting Universal Control invocation could produce one of a number of different error conditions.

UDM Enhancements

B-01832
Add support for PAM using pam_open_session for Linux

New configuration option for udms.conf on Linux distributions:

SECURITY = PAM_SESSIONS

Security is activated and uses PAM to verify user ID and password. PAM session modules are then processed. WARNING: Without a properly configured PAM session module, Universal Data Mover will fail when this value is set. Check system logs, including the authentication log, for failure information.
B-09330
Add ability to transfer text data as binary and translate on target system Performance Enhancement.

UFTP Enhancements

B-08447
Enable connection fault tolerance for FTP file monitor tasks

The "ftp_fm_fault_tolerance yes/no" configuration option was added to uags.conf to enable FTP FM Fault Tolerance feature when UFTP is executed from UAG. When set to YES, and Wait Until Satisfied is turned on for the FTP FM instance, any error from UFTP is ignored up to the last poll attempt. If the error still occurs during the last poll attempt, the instance will go to the Start Failure state. When the parameter is set to NO (no fault tolerance), any error from UFTP is treated as fatal and the instance goes to Start Failure regardless of the Wait Until Satisfied value.

Fault Tolerance functionality for stand-alone (Command Line) execution of UFTP is disabled. When executed from UAG, all UFTP errors are treated as retryable.

USAP Enhancements

B-09782
SAP Re-certification Universal Connector for SAP has completed re-certifications with SAP for XBP 2.0 and XBP 3.0 for SAP and SAP Hana
B-10129
SAP Connection Enhancement - Support Additional Parameters for Connection

The following additional parameters for SAP RFC connections have been added to the USAP command line:

RFCTRACE
SAPROUTER
SNC_LIB
SNC_MYNAME
SNC_PARTNERNAME
SNC_QOP
SNC_SSO
PCS
CODEPAGE
NO_COMPRESSION
ON_CCE
CFIT
MYAPSSO2
X509CERT
DELTA
USE_SYMBOLIC

B-09345
SAP configuration option "-max_spool_size_exceeded_exitcode 0"

A new configuration option was added to override the exit code used for the warning condition that arises when a requested spool list exceeds the user specified max_spool_size.

For example:

UNV3069W Spool list exceeds user specified maximum size limit of 10 bytes.
UNV3070I Job......................: BTCSPOOL/15034800
UNV3071I Step.....................: 1
UNV3072I Spool request number.....: 1557684
UNV3073I Spool pages..............: 1
UNV3074I Projected spool size.....: 1044480 bytes
UNV3075I Spool title..............: ""
B-04918
Add support for transferring spool requests in blocks Added support for XBP functions that allow transferring spool lists in blocks.
B-04919
Add support for job logs that exceed the size limits of BAPI_XBP_JOB_JOBLOG_READ Added support for XBP functions that allow the transfer of a specified offset from the beginning or end of the job log.
B-10377
Add support for NW RFC connection parameter: SNC_MODE Universal Connector for SAP no supports the NW RFC connection parameter SNC_MODE.

UAG Enhancements

B-09733
UAG : Allow UAG to verify SMF exit version and capabilities For customers who use the z/OS Dynamic Exit Facility to load the SMF exits, UAG will verify the exit version at startup.
B-09879
UAG : $HASP106 messages cause Controller z/OS tasks to remain in Submitted status $HASP106 JOB DELETED BY JES2 OR CANCELLED BY OPERATOR BEFORE EXECUTION will no longer cause jobs to remain in SUBMITTED status.
B-10117
UAG : Be able to specify a minimum size on the creation of a file Support has been added for the UAG file monitor to specify a minimum size when monitoring for the creation of a new file from the Universal Controller File Monitor Task.
B-10208
Support refresh of UAG config options that do not require substantial tear down/renegotiation

The following UAG componenbt configuration options can now be "refreshed" via a Universal Control refresh of the uag component, i.e.

uctl -host localhost -refresh uag

Supported UAGS.CONF options:

loglvl
message_level
trace_directory
trace_file_lines
trace_table
security

Supported UACL.CONF options:

uag_work_request