July 19, 2017

6.4.0.0

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B-02384

AIX, Linux x64
(RPM package),
Windows, z/OS

UDM
UDMSRV

UDMMCENG
UDMCFG00
UDMCFGU0
UDSCFG00

UDMCFG
UDMCFGU
UDSCFG

Add ability to authenticate Broker's certificate.
 
Previously delivered as B-06011 in 6.3.0.1.

B-02897

z/OS

All

Add support for mixed case passwords.

B-03348

All

USAP

Add ability to export SAP Factory and Holiday calendars.

B-05351

All

UFTP

A new Universal FTP client component is available that executes for FTP file monitor and FTP file transfer tasks submitted from the Controller.
 
Note: This is a complete replacement for native FTP client execution (and the Cygwin client provided for Windows agents).
 
The client supports FTP,SFTP,FTPS, and TFTP protocols.
 
It is also installed as a stand-alone component, which may be executed from the command line or z/OS job.

B-05691

AIX, Linux x64
(RPM package),
Windows, z/OS

USAP
USPMCENG

Provide improved client fault tolerance for SAP process chains.
 
Previously delivered as B-06010 in 6.3.0.1.

B-05923

AIX, Linux x64
(RPM package),
Windows, z/OS

UENCRYPT

Create new files using defaults of AES256 encryption and an expanded 32-bit key.
 
Previously delivered as B-05825 in 6.3.0.1.

B-05924

All

OMSSRV
UAGSRV

Add support for TLS 1.2 protocol
 
Previously delivered as B-05907 in 6.3.0.2.

B-05926

AIX, Linux x64
(RPM package),
Windows, z/OS

UDM
UDMSRV
UDMMCENG

Protect against interception of sensitive information during user authentication.
 
Previously delivered as B-05826 in 6.3.0.1.

B-05928

All

All

Universal Broker Keystore feature that allows a default key to be stored for Universal Encrypted command files.

B-05983

All

USAP
USPMCENG

Add new configuration option, ENABLE_JOB_STATUS_CHECK, to enable/disable calls to BAPI_XBP_JOB_STATUS_CHECK.
 
Previously delivered as B-06503 in 6.3.0.3.

B-06012

AIX, Linux x64
(RPM package),
Windows, z/OS

USAP
USPMCENG

Provide ability to release intercepted child jobs.
 
Previously delivered as B-06017 in 6.3.0.1.

B-06027

All

UENCRYPT

Add ""legacy"" option to -aes parameter to generate encrypted command files compatible with pre-6.3.0.1 versions of Universal Encrypt.
 
Note: Previously delivered as B-06028 in 6.3.0.1.

B-06115

z/OS

UBROKER

Issue a clear error message at startup if the UNV load library is not APF authorized instead of failing with an S047 ABEND.

B-06176

z/OS

UBROKER,
UCMD,
UCTL,
UDM

Enable TLS 1.2 protocol and cipher support for SystemSSL.

B-06252

All

UDM

Update UDM Manager DATA_COMPRESSION configuration option with new force parameter (that is, compress,force) to allow UDM Managers to override Server-configured compression.
 
Previously delivered as B-06253 in 6.3.0.2.

B-06258

z/OS

UDM,
UDMSRV

Add support for ASA control character conversion/formatting.
 
Previously delivered as B-03155 in 6.3.0.2.

B-06491

All

UDM
UDMSRV
UDMMCENG

Add milliseconds value to built-in variables for access, create, and modify file timestamps.
 
Previously delivered as B-04648 in 6.3.0.3.

B-06501

All

UAGSRV
UAGMCENG

Add support for new resolvable script Credential Functions: ${_credentialUser(‘<credential-name>’)} and ${_credentialPwd(‘<credential-name>’)}.
 
Note: This feature requires Universal Controller 6.4.0.0 and later.
 
Previously delivered as B-06427 in 6.3.0.3.

B-06854

All

OMS,
UBROKER,
UCMD,
UCMSRV,
UCTL,
UCTTSRV,
UDM,
UDMSRV,
UEM,
UEMSRV

Add msg_suppression_list option to filter unwanted messages (e.g., UNV0193W, which warns of deprecated SSL ciphers).

B-06882

z/OS

UAGSRV

Check which UAGSRV SMF exits are loaded at startup and report any that are not loaded.

B-06895

z/OS

UAGSRV,
UAGUJI

Re-enable support for accessing SWA control blocks above the line on z/OS 2.2 or higher.
 
Note: This updates a change delivered for D-06720 in 6.3.0.3, which required SWA control blocks to be below the line.

B-06909

z/OS

UBROKER

Update the APPL=UAG,STATUS MODIFY command to display version information instead of build dates for UAGSRV SMF exits.

B-06934

z/OS

Install

Provide a z/OS distribution file in .zip file format.

B-06956

z/OS

UAGSRV
UAGUJI
UAGUJV

Extend timeouts for acquiring exclusive access to the JSC dataset ENQUEUE.
 
Previously delivered as B-07352 in 6.3.0.6.

B-06959

z/OS

Install

Update packaging to simplify distribution file uploads and handling.
 
Note: Be sure to read the updated z/OS Installation instructions in the Universal Agent user documentation before installing 6.4.0.0 on z/OS.

B-06974

z/OS

UAGSRV

Extend timeouts for JME creation when launching a z/OS task.
 
Previously delivered as B-07353 in 6.3.0.6.

B-07046

z/OS

UBROKER

Add shared_mount_point and shared_mount_point_mode configuration options to support shared UNV databases in sysplex environment.

B-07243

All

UDM,
UDMSRV

Enhance the RDW attribute to process files on non-z/OS systems that contain a 4-byte Record Descriptor Word (RDW) at the start of each record.

D-04333

AIX,
Solaris SPARC,
z/OS

USAP

Prevent XBP 3.0 Create Variant operation failure when SAP note 1144882 has been applied to system.
 
Previously delivered as D-06679 in 6.3.0.2.

D-06381

AIX, Linux x64
(RPM package),
Windows

z/OS

UAGCMD




UAGCMDZ

Generate unique names for trace files.
 
Previously delivered as D-06382 in 6.3.0.1.

D-06387

All

UAGSRV

Clean up temporary script files created by SAP tasks.
 
Previously delivered as D-06888 in 6.3.0.3.

D-06413

AIX, Linux x64
(RPM package),
Windows, z/OS

UBROKER

Prevent Broker crash when it receives a specially-crafted malformed header.
 
Previously delivered as D-06367 in 6.3.0.1.

D-06413

All

UBROKER
USSMCENG

Protect initial handshake message protocol from malicious payloads.
 
Previously delivered as D-06885 in 6.3.0.3.

D-06436

z/OS

UAGSRV

Prevent possible S0C4 during variable substitution.
 
Previously delivered as D-06437 in 6.3.0.1.

D-06439

z/OS

UAGSRV

Tasks may stay in Submitted state after failing with a JCL error.
 
Previously delivered as D-06440 in 6.3.0.1.

D-06442

z/OS

UAGSRV

Prevent jobnames that start with IEFC from falsely reporting a JCL error.
 
Previously delivered as D-06443 in 6.3.0.1.

D-06455

z/OS

UAGSRV

Fix behavior that allows the Job Submission Checkpoint (JSC) dataset to contain duplicate keys, resulting in z/OS tasks that stay in Submitted status.
 
Previously delivered as D-06456 in 6.3.0.1.

D-06558

z/OS

UAGSRV

Fix error that prevents return of job output to original MSGCLASS when the UAG JES_SYSOUT_DISP configuration option value is RELEASE,*.
 
Previously delivered as D-06559 in 6.3.0.2.

D-06591

All

UDM

Add a message to display the value of the DATA_COMPRESSION configuration option following UDM Manager/Server session negotiation.
 
Previously delivered as D-06592 in 6.3.0.2.

D-06606

z/OS

UAGSRV

Ensure that JCL statements are padded with blanks instead of NULLs.
 
Previously delivered as D-06547 in 6.3.0.2.

D-06664

z/OS

UBROKER,
UCMD,
UCTL,
UDM

Get default label from key ring if no value is specified for saf_key_ring_label when using System SSL.

D-06720

z/OS

UAGUJI,
UAGUJV

Prevent possible abend when encountering SWA control blocks that reside above the bar.
 
Previously delivered as D-06721 in 6.3.0.2.

D-06728

z/OS

UAGSRV

Prevent possible S0C4 in UAGSRV function WjssLocalJmeDelete().
 
Previously delivered as D-06751 in 6.3.0.2.

D-06729

All

UDM,
UDMSRV

Set error return code when the length of a file’s records exceeds a z/OS datasets’s allocated record length.
 
Previously delivered as D-05880 in 6.3.0.2.

D-06736

All

UDM
UDMSRV

Correct problem trimming spaces from very long records.
 
Previously delivered as D-06803 in 6.3.0.3.

D-06745

All

UDM,
UDMSRV

Fix conversion error that may occur when creating a session using UTF-8 or UTF-16 codepages.
 
Previously delivered as D-01721 in 6.3.0.2.

D-06748

All

UBROKER

Improve authentication of message parameters sent during a session negotiation’s handshake.
 
Previously delivered as D-06774 in 6.3.0.2.

D-06760

z/OS

UAGSRV

Reduce CPU utilization.

D-06780

All

UDM
UDMSRV

Make sure memory allocation errors that occur when a large ACK_WINDOW value is used when NFT is disabled are reported prior to UDM failure.
 
Previously delivered as D-06781 in 6.3.0.3.

D-06830

z/OS

UAGSRV,
UAGUSI

Fail task if all steps FLUSH on rerun because of a JCL COND=(0,NE) statement.
 
Note: Previously delivered as D-05592 in 6.3.0.3.

D-06835

AIX,
Solaris SPARC,
z/OS

USAP

Handle FAILED exception from RSPC_API_CHAIN_GET_PROCESSES function.
 
Previously delivered as D-06838 in 6.3.0.2.

D-06877

z/OS

UAGUJI

Change wait for JSC ENQUEUE to 15 seconds to avoid possible resource contention when mulitple agents are running.
 
Note: Previously delivered as D-06940 in 6.3.0.3.

D-06892

All

USAP

Use Universal Connector GROUP configuration option instead of mshost value for RFC GROUP connection parameter.
 
Previously delivered as D-06893 in 6.3.0.3.

D-06908

z/OS

UAGSRV

Make sure jobs that end with S822 are reported correctly to Universal Controller.
 
Previously delivered as D-06909 in 6.3.0.3.

D-06919

z/OS

UDM
UDMSRV

Do not fail conversion of an FBA dataset that starts with an ASA form feed character.
 
Previously delivered as D-06920 in 6.3.0.3.

D-06964

All

UAGSRV

Masking of sensitive values (i.e., resolved variables replaced with ****) may prevent stdout or stderr from being returned to the Controller.
 
Note: This change was previously delivered as D-06965 in 6.3.0.3.

D-06999

z/OS

UAGUJI

Do not retain catalog information for new GDGs and other sequential datasets that did not get created in a job's initial run.
 
Previously delivered as D-05719 in 6.3.0.3.

D-07098

All

UAGSRV

A Universal Agent task that executes a script which calls the ${_credentialPwd()} function may fail.

D-07107

All

UDM,
UDMSRV

Connection to pre-6.3 UDM Server fails if connection was already made to a 6.3 UDM Server earlier in the same script.

D-07136

z/OS

UDM
UDMSRV

UDM fails to create UTF16-encoded dataset on z/OS.
 
Previously delivered as D-07145 in 6.3.0.4.

D-07144

z/OS

UAGSRV

Make sure an EXISTS file monitor task executed on a z/OS agent updates the status description correctly.

D-07164

z/OS

UDM,
UDMSRV

UDM reports 0 (zero) files transferred when a move attempted within a loop succeeds upon retry of a failure.

D-07176

All

UAGSRV

Make sure the agent returns content from the end of available output when issuing an output retrieval request from the Controller starting at line -1.

D-07221

z/OS

UAGUJI

Make sure SKIPST parameters specified for z/OS tasks correctly skip steps that execute PROCs.
 
Previously delivered as D-07564 in 6.3.0.6.

D-07244

All

UDM
UDMSRV

Ensure that UDM does not write duplicate data to output file following successful NFT recovery.
 
Previously delivered as D-07295 in 6.3.0.4.

D-07259

z/OS

UAGUJI

Fix a problem that prevents steps containing a DD statement which specifies DSN=NULLFILE to be selected for restart.
 
Previously delivered as D-07563 in 6.3.0.6.

D-07333

z/OS

UAGSRV,
UAGUJI

Fix a problem that prevents steps that require subsequent steps from being skipped upon restart.
 
Note: This fix for this item required a change to rerun behavior, as follows:
 
Prior to this change, if a dataset in a job step was referenced with a disposition of OLD,DELETE, the job was searched for other step(s) which referenced the same dataset with a disposition other than OLD,DELETE. If a step was found, the initial step was marked as being dependent on the subsequent step. This could result in a job step which was marked as dependent on a later step, which is not intuitive.
 
After this change, we no longer check for dataset references which occur in later steps, resolving the issue above.
 
However, if a step in a job references a dataset with OLD,DELETE (effectively deleting it) and a later step (re)creates the dataset (using a disposition of NEW or MOD), the later step could be considered to be dependent on the earlier step. This is a condition we no longer report as step dependency.
 
To preserve the dependency for steps whose only purpose is to delete a dataset, is to using a disposition of MOD,DELETE instead of OLD,DELETE.

D-07410

z/OS

UAGSRV

An EXISTS/MISSING file monitor task does not end with a non-zero exit code upon failure.

D-07430

All

USAP

After SAP update EHP7, USAP may receive "Invalid Document" error while attempting to retrive spooled output.

D-07433

z/OS

UAGSRV

JCL errors may not be detected in steps that execute after a step condition prevents a task from failing upon an ABEND.

D-07483

z/OS

UAGSRV

Add support for mount point names longer than 47 characters.

D-07497

z/OS

UAGUJV
UAGUSI

Prevent a conflict with a customer SMF exit that references the same JMR control block locations as UAGSRV SMF exits.
 
Previously delivered as D-07562 in 6.3.0.6.

D-07508

All

UAGSRV

Display correct values for System Monitor task responses.

D-07509

All

UDM,
UDMSRV

Fix a problem that could cause Universal Data Mover to prematurely stop reading a UTF16-encoded file.
 

 
Previously delivered as D-07559 in 6.3.0.6.

D-07538

z/OS

UAGSRV

Fix a problem in which a NOT CATLGD 2 on a GDG dataset may not cause a task to fail.

D-07586

All

UAGSRV

Accept the Cancel command from Controller when executing File Transfer tasks.

D-07588

z/OS

UAGSRV,
UAGUJI

Steps with DD statements which reference other DD statements in the same step are not marked as restartable in the Controller.

D-07614

All

UAGSRV

Correct the agent start time reported in the Controller.

D-08705

z/OS

Install

Update jobs for upgrades to 6.4 from 4.x and 5.x. Provide new jobs to upgrade from 6.2 and 6.3 to 6.4.