Overview
This page identifies the changes made in all Universal Agent 7.5.x maintenance releases, including the initial release, for all supported platforms.
Each change identifies the platform(s) for which it was made.
For a list of changes made to optional Agent 7.5.x packages, such as Universal Command Agent for SOA 6.7.x, see the platform-specific Maintenance Levels pages.
For a list of all changes in a release - all platforms, specific components - see Component Maintenance Levels.
Note
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.
Release 7.5.0.0 - October 13, 2023
Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
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B-11499 | All | OMSSRV | Provides changes that:
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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.
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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 | PKG | 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 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 | PKG | 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. NOTE: The OpenSSL library used for the Universal Agent for HP-UX distribution was not updated. |
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. NOTE: The libssh2 library used for the Universal Agent for HP-UX distribution was not updated. |
D-11333 | Windows | PKG | 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. NOTE: Use of this option will apply configuration updates to all Universal Agent components that use SSL/TLS. Care must be taken when using this option for upgrades from UA 7.4.0.x and later, as TLS 1.3 may already be used for some Agent components and turned off in others. Using this option will cause all component configurations to enable TLS 1.3 support. NOTE: The interactive system mode install for Windows will continue to display the dialog that uses a checkbox to enable Agent-wide TLS 1.3 support only when upgrading from releases prior to UA 7.4.0.0. |
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. NOTE: The libcURL library used for the Universal Agent for HP-UX distribution was not updated. |
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 installation. |