All Platforms Package Maintenance Levels - Agent 7.7.x

Owned by Tony Partin
Oct 01, 2024
4 min read

Overview

This page identifies the changes made in all Universal Agent 7.7.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 7.7.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 7.7.0.0 - October 1, 2024

Change IDPlatformsComponentDescription
B-06499z/OS

UAGSRV
UAGU84
UAGUTIL

Provide the ability to monitor IBM z/OS jobs executed outside of the Universal Controller.

The Universal Controller 7.7.0.0 release provides a new z/OS Monitor task type and associated z/OS Monitor Trigger that can report the status of these jobs and direct additional work based on the monitor's completion.

B-18369
B-18547		IBMi

UAGSRV
UBROKER
UEXT

Enable Universal Controller integration with the Universal Agent for IBMi and support execution of native IBMi tasks and Universal Extension tasks.

NOTE: This delivery does not contain updated Universal Command and Universal Data Mover support. If you still require those components, you will need a Universal Agent for IBMi 5.1.1 install to run alongside a 7.7.0.0 install. Updated Universal Command and Universal Data Move support will be available in an upcoming release.

B-18371All (except HP-UX)

OMSSRV
UAGSRV
UBROKER
UCERT
UCMD
UCMSRV
UCTL 
UCTSRV
UDM
UDMSRV
UEM
UFTP

Upgrade the OpenSSL library that Universal Agent uses to OpenSSL 3.0.14.
B-19912z/OS

UAGSRV
UAGWMDBX

Provide the ability to access to Write-to-Operator (WTO) messages issued to different address spaces.

D-11270z/OSUAGSRVProvide message UAG5656E Dataset <dsname> specified for <jcl_save_library> cannot be found to make UAG Server start failures that occur due to missing JCL_SAVE_LIBRARY datasets more clear.
D-11460

Unix
Windows

UAGSRVImprove Agent warm start behavior in low memory environments to allow more task statuses to be recovered and accurately reported.
D-11554Unix (except HP-UX)PYTHON

Exclude the nis module from the Universal Agent's Python distribution on Linux.

The nis module is a thin wrapper around the NIS library, which is only available on Unix systems (not Linux).

Attempts to import the nis module from a script that executes with the Universal Agent Python distribution on Linux will issue the following error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'nis'. 

The module will import successfully on AIX and Solaris with the following warning: <stdin>:1: DeprecationWarning: 'nis' is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.13

D-11867Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows		UAGSRVEnsure that all temporary Universal Extension files are removed following cancellation of a Universal Extension task.
D-11929z/OSUAGSRV

Provide a new UAG Server configuration option, RERUN_BEFORE_INCLUDE, which is defined in UAGCFG00. This option controls whether a JCL INCLUDE statement should trigger the insertion of the UAGRERUN step.

Valid values and their meaning are as follows:

  • no -- a JCL INCLUDE statement will not trigger insertion of a UAGRERUN step. This is the default, which matches the behavior in previous versions.
  • yes – a UAGRERUN step is inserted ahead of a JCL INCLUDE statement.
D-12020Unix
Windows
z/OS		UDM
UDMSRV		Expands support for files whose names contain multibyte (i.e., Unicode) characters.
D-12303WindowsUAGSRV

Fixes a problem that causes Agent File Monitors running on Windows to fail when user credentials contain Unicode characters.

D-12314

Unix
Windows

UDMFixes a possible password exposure when a File Transfer Task using a UDM script echoes the $(ops_primary_cred_pwd) value when specified for an exec statement. Prior to the fix, the value was not scrubbed from the task output. This fix provides proper scrubbing for this value.
D-12493z/OSUAGCMDFail correctly when the -q or -t option is specified for UAGCMD on a platform that does not yet support TLS 1.3.
D-12505z/OSUAGSRV

Adds the following messages to provide better information when the UNVJSC cluster dataset is not found or fails to open:

  • UAG5656 - Dataset jscds must be a VSAM cluster, where jscds is the name of the UNVJSC dataset
  • UAG5657 - Dataset jscds could not be opened, where jscds is the name of the UNVJSC dataset
D-12506z/OSUAGRERUN

Improve error messaging when UAGRERUN executes on a system that does not have UAG Server. For example, when z/OS Workload Manager routes a job to a non-Agent system within a Sysplex, include a clear description of the error and the system on which UAGRERUN ran.

D-12543z/OSUAGRERUNEnsures that unexpired archived datasets are deleted by UAGRERUN's cleanup logic.
D-12548Unix (except HP-UX, Solaris)
Windows		UAGSRVProvides a change that causes UAG Server and OMS Server activity spans for PeopleSoft task instances to remain associated with the Universal Controller's parent trace grouping.
D-12564z/OSUAGSRVFix the value reported for the MIN_SSL_PROTOCOL option in the UNVAUDIT report.
D-12570

Unix
Windows

UAGSRV
USAP		Expands support for multi-byte (i.e., Unicode) values specified in SAP tasks. This change ensures that Unicode values in job definition scripts or SAP task definitions are correctly passed to and received from the SAP system.
D-12573WindowsUIP-CLI
UIP-VSCODE		Ensure that UIP-CLI exits with a non-zero value upon failure.
D-12576z/OSUAGSRVRelax validation for UAG Server's AGENT_IP configuration option on z/OS to accept VIPA addresses.
D-12599Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows		PYTHONUpdate Universal Agent's Python distribution to 3.11.9 to address outstanding CVEs.
D-12633Unix
Windows		UBROKERManage uems.db growth by removing information for an event occurrence upon completion.
D-12638z/OSUAGSRVWhen all steps selected for rerun FLUSH, ensure the task instance for that rerun ends with a Failed status.
D-12652z/OSUAGSRVDo not require a value for the CA_CERTIFICATES configuration option when SystemSSL is used and the Agent requests OMS Server authentication.
D-12655WindowsINSTALLSuppress all message boxes and dialogs when the user mode install is run in SILENT mode.
D-12659Unix
Windows		UAGSRVPrevent an unnecessary UTF-8 conversion for UDM task output.
D-12670Unix
Windows
z/OS		UDMFixes a possible password exposure in a trace file when UDM executes on systems whose locale is not UTF-8. 
D-12721

Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows

UEXT

Address reported CVEs by providing the following updates:

  • Update the Python modules installed to the ./uagsrv/uext/_3pp/public directory to the versions indicated:
    • certifi == 2024.06.02
    • charset_normalizer == 3.3.2
    • googleapis_common_protos == 1.63.2
    • idna == 3.7
    • protobuf == 4.25.3
    • requests == 2.32.3
    • typing_extensions == 4.12.2
    • urllib3 == 1.26.19
    • wrapt == 1.16.0
    • zipp == 3.19.2
  • Update the PyYAML Python module installed to the ./uagsrv/uext/_3pp/internal/yaml27 directory to 5.4.1
  • Update the PyYAML Python module installed to the ./uagsrv/uext/_3pp/internal/yaml39 directory to 5.4.1
D-12864Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows		PYTHON

Update external modules (and their dependencies) provided by the Universal Agent Python distribution to address any CVEs reported for those modules.

  • A list of external modules provided for Unix installations may be found here.
  • A list of external modules provided for Windows installations may be found here.
E-02039AllAllMiscellaneous fixes to improve Universal Agent stability and reliability.