Introduction
This page summarizes the changes introduced in each component maintenance release for Universal Agent 6.9.x.
For a list of all component changes included in the maintenance release for each platform, see:
Universal Agent Server
Release 7.1.0.0 - September 30, 2021
Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
B-10691 | All | UAGSRV | 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:
Note 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 | 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. Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
B-13820 | Unix | UAGSRV | Allow the following Universal Extension config options to be set at install time or via Broker startup:
Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
B-14049 | Unix | UAGSRV | Ensure that any instances of a password exposed by a Universal Extension task are scrubbed from the UAG Server cache files. |
D-07313 | Unix | 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
Release 7.1.0.0 - September 30, 2021
Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
B-13820 | Unix | UAGSRV | Allow the following Universal Extension config options to be set at install time or via Broker startup:
Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
Universal Command
Release 7.0.0.0 - April 5, 2021
Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
B-10365 | All | UCMD | 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. |
Universal Connector for SAP
Release 7.0.0.0 - April 5, 2021
Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
B-10365 | All | UCMD | 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. |
D-10104 | All | USAP | Fix failure to execute SAP Business Warehouse tasks following licensing updates in UA 6.9.0.0. NOTE: A fix for this is also available in the UA 6.9.0.1 and 6.9.0.2 maintenance releases. |
D-10105 | All | USAP | Prevent SAP InfoPackage job execution from being mistaken as an attempt to run a regular SAP job that uses a model job without the jobid. This fixes an issue introduced in a 6.4.2.x release that eliminated the need for a jobid when running a model job. This change is also available (for all platforms except z/OS) in the UA 6.9.0.2 maintenance release. |
Universal Connector for PeopleSoft Process Scheduler
Release 7.0.0.0 - April 5, 2021
Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
B-10365 | All | UCMD | 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. |
Universal Control
Release 7.0.0.0 - April 5, 2021
Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
B-10365 | All | UCMD | 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. |
Universal Data Mover
Release 7.0.0.0 - April 5, 2021
Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
B-11148 | Linux s390x | All | Update SSL/TLS support to OpenSSL 1.1.1b. |
B-11274 | z/OS | UDM | Preserve an existing dataset’s attributes if it is used for the savedata command. |
B-12884 | All | UDM | Expand the set of characters that a UDM script can support for password values. |
Universal Event Monitor
Release 7.0.0.0 - April 5, 2021
Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
B-10365 | All | UCMD | 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. |
Universal Extension
Release 7.0.0.0 - April 5, 2021
Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
B-12986 | Unix | UEXT | Provide the new Universal Extension for Unix and Windows. NOTE: The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
Universal FTP CLient
Release 7.0.0.0 - April 5, 2021
Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
B-09713 | All | UFTP | Add timestamp parameter support to message_level option |
B-10365 | All | UCMD | 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-11140 | All | UFTP | Provide distinct exit codes for different situations like connection failures or authentication errors. The follow set of exit codes are now possible:
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B-11148 | Linux s390x | All | Update SSL/TLS support to OpenSSL 1.1.1b. |
D-09177 | All | UFTP | Prevent the error:
When a password starts with a dash (‘-‘). |
D-09913 | All | UFTP | Fix handling of comma-separated lists for MGET, MPUT, and MDELETE operations |
D-10009 | Unix Windows | UFTP | Prevent the error:
When the MKDIR command is used with the SFTP protocol. |
D-10080 | All | UFTP | Fixes a situation where not every file selected for transfer with an MGET command is transferred. The problem presents as UFTP reporting the file being added to the remote file list, but then not being able to find the file when the transfer starts. The problem was most often – but not exclusively -- seen when an FTP or SSH server is listening on ports other than 21 and 22, respectively. |
| D-10260 | UNIX | UFTP | If a local file list cannot be built as part of MPUT processing, a cURL error -504 is reported, but UFTP ends with exit code 0. The fix for this Defect corrects the exit code processing so that UFTP will end with exit code 202.
UFTP will now report:
This makes the Unix implementation consistent with Windows. |
Installation Changes
Release 7.0.0.0 - April 5, 2021
Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
B-10681 | Linux s390x | PKG | Update the package and installation requirements for the Agent on Linux s390x. The install now requires the following:
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B-12442 | Unix Windows | PKG | Remove the ability to configure the enable_ssl option for UAGSRV at install time. B-12368 delivered a change whereby the ability for UAGSRV to create an SSL connection with an OMS Server is always enabled. |
B-12443 | Solaris | PKG | Change the execution of the zonecfg command to support changes introduced for Solaris 11.4. The install script executes the zonecfg command to determine whether the Agent is being installed in a global zone. |
B-13008 | AIX | PKG | Update the package and installation requirements for the Agent on AIX. The install now requires the following:
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Python Distribution for Universal Agent
Release 7.0.0.0 - April 5, 2021
Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
B-12928 | Unix | Python | Provide the new and updated external modules list below in the Python Distribution for Universal Agent. Modules are only provided by the Linux Intel RPM and Debian packages and Windows, except where noted.
Removed from all except AIX and Solaris SPARC:
NOTE: The HP-UX agent install does not provide a Python distribution. |