Introduction
This page summarizes the changes introduced in each component maintenance release for Universal Agent 6.4.x.
For a list of all component changes included in the maintenance release for each platform, see:
Universal Automation Center Agent
Release 6.4.0.0 - July 19, 2017
Change ID |
Component |
Platform |
Description |
---|---|---|---|
B-02897 |
All |
z/OS |
Add support for mixed case passwords. |
B-05924 |
OMSSRV, |
All |
Add support for TLS 1.2 protocol |
B-06501 |
UAGSRV |
All |
Add support for new resolvable script Credential Functions: ${_credentialUser(‘<credential-name>’)} and ${_credentialPwd(‘<credential-name>’)}. |
B-06956 |
UAGSRV |
z/OS |
Extend timeouts for acquiring exclusive access to the JSC dataset ENQUEUE. |
B-06974 |
UAGSRV |
z/OS |
Extend timeouts for JME creation when launching a z/OS task. |
D-05850 |
UAGSRV |
UNIX |
Allow SFTP server port to be overridden when password-based authentication is used with SFTP File Transfer tasks. |
D-06381 |
UAGCMD |
AIX, Linux x64 |
Generate unique names for trace files. |
D-06387 |
UAGSRV |
All |
Clean up temporary script files created by SAP tasks. |
D-06405 |
UAGSRV |
AIX, Linux x64 |
Allow concurrent File Monitor instances to search for files using regular expressions that contain a comma. |
D-06436 |
UAGSRV |
z/OS |
Prevent possible S0C4 during variable substitution. |
D-06439 |
UAGSRV |
z/OS |
Tasks may stay in Submitted state after failing with a JCL error. |
D-06442 |
UAGSRV |
z/OS |
Prevent jobnames that start with IEFC from falsely reporting a JCL error. |
D-06448 |
UAGSRV |
Windows |
DELETE File Monitors succeed when file's owner does not match the value of the task's File Owner field. |
D-06455 |
UAGSRV |
z/OS |
Fix behavior that allows the Job Submission Checkpoint (JSC) dataset to contain duplicate keys, resulting in z/OS tasks that stay in Submitted status. |
D-06460 |
UAGSRV |
Windows |
Add ERROR_NETNAME_DELETED as a retry condition for File Monitor fault tolerance. |
D-06467 |
UAGSRV |
UNIX |
Make sure all error information is reported for an EXISTS File Monitor task that fails because the path name specified in the task Details does not exist. |
D-06558 |
UAGSRV |
z/OS |
Fix error that prevents return of job output to original MSGCLASS when the UAG JES_SYSOUT_DISP configuration option value is RELEASE,*. |
D-06606 |
UAGSRV |
z/OS |
Ensure that JCL statements are padded with blanks instead of NULLs. |
D-06720 |
UAGUJI, |
z/OS |
Prevent possible abend when encountering SWA control blocks that reside above the bar. |
D-06726 |
UAGSRV |
Windows |
Prevent a situation that may result in a "CSProcessCreate: The system cannot find the file specified" error when several Windows tasks that execute scripts with user credentials are launched at once. |
D-06728 |
UAGSRV |
z/OS |
Prevent possible S0C4 in UAGSRV function WjssLocalJmeDelete(). |
D-06864 |
UAGSRV |
UNIX, |
File Monitor tasks that end with a Failed status do not always end with non-zero exit codes. |
D-06908 |
UAGSRV |
z/OS |
Make sure jobs that end with S822 are reported correctly to Universal Controller. |
D-06999 |
UAGUJI |
z/OS |
Do not retain catalog information for new GDGs and other sequential datasets that did not get created in a job's initial run. |
D-07193 |
UAGSRV |
Windows |
File Monitors may go to Start Failure on AD Controller reboot/switchover. |
D-07200 |
UAGSRV |
UNIX |
Tasks with UACL fail with "CSProcessCreate failed: KrnProcessCreate" if the Agent is running as root. |
D-07221 |
UAGUJI |
z/OS |
Make sure SKIPST parameters specified for z/OS tasks correctly skip steps that execute PROCs. |
D-07259 |
UAGUJI |
z/OS |
Fix a problem that prevents steps containing a DD statement which specifies DSN=NULLFILE to be selected for restart. |
D-07497 |
UAGUJV |
z/OS |
Prevent a conflict with a customer SMF exit that references the same JMR control block locations as UAGSRV SMF exits. |
Universal Broker
Release 6.4.0.0 - July 19, 2017
Change ID |
Component |
Platform |
Description |
---|---|---|---|
B-02897 |
All |
z/OS |
Add support for mixed case passwords. |
B-05922 |
AIX, Linux x64 |
UBROKER |
Turn off world-readable flag for application configuration and log files. |
B-05925 |
HP-UX Itanium, |
UBROKER, |
Add support for TLS 1.2 ciphers, AES256-GCM-SHA384 and AES128-GCM-SHA256. |
B-05927 |
HP-UX Itanium, |
UBROKER |
Add support for TLS 1.2 protocol. |
B-05990 |
UBROKER, |
HP-UX Itanium, |
Add MIN_SSL_PROTOCOL configuration option to manage TLS application protocol support. |
D-06413 |
UBROKER |
AIX, Linux x64 |
Prevent Broker crash when it receives a specially-crafted malformed header. |
D-06413 |
UBROKER |
All |
Protect initial handshake message protocol from malicious payloads. |
D-06748 |
UBROKER |
All |
Improve authentication of message parameters sent during a session negotiation’s handshake. |
Universal Certificate
Release 6.4.0.0 - July 19, 2017
Change ID |
Component |
Platform |
Description |
---|---|---|---|
B-02897 |
All |
z/OS |
Add support for mixed case passwords. |
B-05927 |
UCERT |
HP-UX Itanium, |
Add support for TLS 1.2 protocol. |
Universal Command
Release 6.4.0.0 - July 19, 2017
Change ID |
Component |
Platform |
Description |
---|---|---|---|
B-02897 |
All |
z/OS |
Add support for mixed case passwords. |
B-05922 |
AIX, Linux x64 |
UCMD, |
Turn off world-readable flag for application configuration and log files. |
B-05925 |
HP-UX Itanium, |
UCMD, |
Add support for TLS 1.2 ciphers, AES256-GCM-SHA384 and AES128-GCM-SHA256. |
B-05927 |
UCMD, |
HP-UX Itanium, |
Add support for TLS 1.2 protocol. |
B-05990 |
UCMDSRV, |
HP-UX Itanium, |
Add MIN_SSL_PROTOCOL configuration option to manage TLS application protocol support. |
Universal Connector for SAP
Release 6.4.0.0 - July 19, 2017
Change ID |
Component |
Platform |
Description |
---|---|---|---|
B-02897 |
All |
z/OS |
Add support for mixed case passwords. |
B-03348 |
USAP |
All |
Add ability to export SAP Factory and Holiday calendars. |
B-05691 |
USAP |
AIX, Linux x64 |
Provide improved client fault tolerance for SAP process chains. |
B-05983 |
USAP |
All |
Add new configuration option, ENABLE_JOB_STATUS_CHECK, to enable/disable calls to BAPI_XBP_JOB_STATUS_CHECK. |
B-06012 |
USAP |
AIX, Linux x64 |
Provide ability to release intercepted child jobs. |
D-04333 |
USAP |
AIX, |
Prevent XBP 3.0 Create Variant operation failure when SAP note 1144882 has been applied to system. |
D-06835 |
USAP |
AIX, |
Handle FAILED exception from RSPC_API_CHAIN_GET_PROCESSES function. |
D-06887 |
USAP |
UNIX (except AIX |
Handle RFC timeouts during calls to RSPC_API_CHAIN_GET_STATUS. |
D-06892 |
USAP |
All |
Use Universal Connector GROUP configuration option instead of mshost value for RFC GROUP connection parameter. |
Universal Control
Release 6.4.0.0 - July 19, 2017
Change ID |
Component |
Platform |
Description |
---|---|---|---|
B-02897 |
All |
z/OS |
Add support for mixed case passwords. |
B-05922 |
AIX, Linux x64 |
UCTL |
Turn off world-readable flag for application configuration and log files. |
B-05925 |
HP-UX Itanium, |
UCTL, |
Add support for TLS 1.2 ciphers, AES256-GCM-SHA384 and AES128-GCM-SHA256. |
B-05927 |
UCTL, |
HP-UX Itanium, |
Add support for TLS 1.2 protocol. |
B-05990 |
UCTL, |
HP-UX Itanium, |
Add MIN_SSL_PROTOCOL configuration option to manage TLS application protocol support. |
Universal Data Mover
Release 6.4.0.0 - July 19, 2017
Change ID |
Component |
Platform |
Description |
---|---|---|---|
B-02384 |
UDM |
AIX, Linux x64 |
Add ability to authenticate Broker's certificate. |
B-02897 |
All |
z/OS |
Add support for mixed case passwords. |
B-05922 |
AIX, Linux x64 |
UDM |
Turn off world-readable flag for application configuration and log files. |
B-05925 |
HP-UX Itanium, |
UDM, |
Add support for TLS 1.2 ciphers, AES256-GCM-SHA384 and AES128-GCM-SHA256. |
B-05926 |
UDM |
AIX, Linux x64 |
Protect against interception of sensitive information during user authentication. |
B-05927 |
UDM, |
HP-UX Itanium, |
Add support for TLS 1.2 protocol. |
B-05990 |
UDM, |
HP-UX Itanium, |
Add MIN_SSL_PROTOCOL configuration option to manage TLS application protocol support. |
B-06252 |
UDM |
All |
Update UDM Manager DATA_COMPRESSION configuration option with new force parameter (that is, compress,force) to allow UDM Managers to override Server-configured compression. |
B-06258 |
UDM, |
z/OS |
Add support for ASA control character conversion/formatting. |
B-06491 |
UDM |
All |
Add milliseconds value to built-in variables for access, create, and modify file timestamps. |
D-06380 |
UDM |
UNIX |
Display correct version information for UDM Server. |
D-06591 |
UDM |
All |
Add a message to display the value of the DATA_COMPRESSION configuration option following UDM Manager/Server session negotiation. |
D-06729 |
UDM, |
All |
Set error return code when the length of a file’s records exceeds a z/OS datasets’s allocated record length. |
D-06736 |
UDM |
All |
Correct problem trimming spaces from very long records. |
D-06745 |
UDM, |
All |
Fix conversion error that may occur when creating a session using UTF-8 or UTF-16 codepages. |
D-06780 |
UDM |
All |
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. |
D-06919 |
UDM |
z/OS |
Do not fail conversion of an FBA dataset that starts with an ASA form feed character. |
D-07136 |
UDM |
z/OS |
UDM fails to create UTF16-encoded dataset on z/OS. |
D-07244 |
UDM |
All |
Ensure that UDM does not write duplicate data to output file following successful NFT recovery. |
D-07509 |
UDM, |
All |
Fix a problem that could cause Universal Data Mover to prematurely stop reading a UTF16-encoded file. Note The problem was observed when trying to transfer a UTF-16BE file to a z/OS dataset encoded with the IBM500 codepage. The cause of the problem was related to the size of the input file, and not to the UTF16 translation itself. |
Universal Event Monitor
Release 6.4.0.0 -July 19, 2017
Change ID |
Component |
Platform |
Description |
---|---|---|---|
B-02897 |
All |
z/OS |
Add support for mixed case passwords. |
B-05922 |
AIX, Linux x64 |
UEM |
Turn off world-readable flag for application configuration and log files. |
B-05925 |
HP-UX Itanium, |
UEM, |
Add support for TLS 1.2 ciphers, AES256-GCM-SHA384 and AES128-GCM-SHA256. |
B-05927 |
UEM, |
HP-UX Itanium, |
Add support for TLS 1.2 protocol. |
B-05990 |
UEM, |
HP-UX Itanium, |
Add MIN_SSL_PROTOCOL configuration option to manage TLS application protocol support. |
Universal Message Service (OMS)
Release 6.4.0.0 - July 19, 2017
Change ID |
Component |
Platform |
Description |
---|---|---|---|
B-02897 |
All |
z/OS |
Add support for mixed case passwords. |
B-06165 |
OMS |
UNIX |
Increase the maximum number of allowable TCP/IP connections. |
Universal Query
Release 6.4.0.0 - July 19, 2017
Change ID |
Component |
Platform |
Description |
---|---|---|---|
B-02897 |
All |
z/OS |
Add support for mixed case passwords. |
B-05922 |
AIX, Linux x64 |
UQUERY |
Turn off world-readable flag for application configuration and log files. |
B-05927 |
UQUERY |
HP-UX Itanium, |
Add support for TLS 1.2 protocol. |
Install
Release 6.4.0.0 - July 19, 2017
Change ID |
Component |
Platform |
Description |
---|---|---|---|
D-06865 |
Install |
Windows |
Mask passwords displayed by Stonebranch trace functions in install log. |
D-07565 |
Install |
Windows |
Fix a problem that could cause a silent install to fail when RUNBROKERASUSER=0 is specified. The install incorrectly tried to authenticate the default credentials for a Broker service account whose password had been changed. The authentication failure was ignored for interactive installs, but caused silent installs for fail. |