Release Notes

Universal Agent release 6.7 contains the following high level features, for a complete list of all the included features and fixes please refer to the Universal Agent 6.7.x Maintenance list.

Backlog ID	Title	Description
B-10383	Upgrade OpenSSL to Version 111B	Upgrading our OpenSSL environment to version 102f will require some changes to the Ciphers being used or available within the Agent Infrastructure. Windows, Linux, and Unix platforms, apart from HP-UX, have been upgraded with Universal Agent 6.7.0.0. z/OS and z-Linux will be upgraded as part of Universal Agent 6.8.0.0, as it requires a couple of prerequisites not being manageable for the 6.7.0.0 Release. HP-UX will currently remain undone and will be re-evaluated if there is a customer requirement for that specific platform. With GA of Universal Agent Version 6.7.0.0, as part of the OpenSSL upgrade, the following Cipher will no longer be available: DES-CBC-SHA. This is due to the fact that that Cipher are no longer supported with OpenSSL 111B. Nevertheless, for compatibility reasons it will remain in the cipher list for platforms still supporting it. Selecting it for a platform not supporting it will flag it as an invalid value. Customers using that Cipher need to use the TLS null-null Cipher suites instead if neither of the supported ciphers is suitable for the platform or the environment. For Universal Agent 6.7.0.0, the following Ciphers remain available: In a future release of Universal Agent, the following Ciphers will be deprecated and no longer available:
B-10357 B-10313	Open JRE 8 for Windows and Linux	For the SOA Connector, the Open JRE Version 8 is now packaged, supported, and validated. On the Agent side, the SOA Connector is the only component we do package as a Java run-time component.
B-05491	Add message _dest LogFile support for Windows Platform	Allow changing of the Logfile Destination for the Agent Log on Windows systems. You can now change the destination of the UNVLOG to a destination of your choice on Windows systems as well. New Parameter option have been added to message_dest. System is the default and routes all messages to the system Console Logfile directs messages to the UNVLOG as specified in the log:directory Parameter STDERR directs messages to the STDERR file of the Job Output
B-10731	Research AWS S3 file monitoring	AWS file systems have been researched, alongside the technology of the currently available universal Tasks, and a basic design for making this technology available as part of the Universal Agent has been created.
B-10329	Research HDFS File Monitoring	HDFS file systems have been researched, alongside the technology of the currently available universal Tasks, and a basic design for making this technology available as part of the Universal Agent has been created.
B-07363	OMS Server should enforce the usage of SSL connections	A new Option in configuration Member OMSS: Option: require_ssl Default: no # Whether to require clients to establish SSL connections. # If set to 'yes', the OMS server will reject all non-SSL # client connections. The processing when require ssl is set to yes is as follows: require_ssl = “yes”, min_ssl_protocol = “TLS1_0” or “TLS1_2”, then SSL must be used the session cannot be negotiated to an SSL level lower that the one specified in min_ssl require_ssl = “yes”, min_ssl_protocol = default (‘tls1_0’), then SSL must be used lowest, supported sslL level in this case is TLS 1.0 require_ssl = “no”, min_ssl_protocol = “TLS1_0” or “TLS1_2”, then SSL is not required The session can be negotiated on whatever level is agreeable between both parties require_ssl = “no”, min_ssl_protocol = default, then SSL is not required The session can be negotiated on whatever level is agreeable between both parties require_ssl = default (‘yes’), min_ssl_protocol = “TLS1_0” or “TLS1_2”, same as #1 require_ssl = default(‘yes’), min_ssl_protocol = default, then same as #2
B-10229 B-10800	Update Windows Installer package to 64-bit Installation	The Windows Installer package, as well as all required routines, has been upgraded to support native 64-bit installation process.
B-10308	Deliver USOA for 64-bit windows systems	Effective immediately, a standard download package for 64-bit windows systems is available.
B-10687	UPPS Web Services Call to become Fault Tolerant	Fault Tolerance for UPPS Connector based WEB-Services.
B-06684	Threshold to avoid memory consumption of UDM when using the acknowledge window.
B-03322	Specify UAG z/OS log-data sets as GDG	z/OS Log datasets can now be defined as GDG and managed by the z/OS catalog accordingly. We do consider Backlog B-03644 as solved by this implementation as well, as deleting the log datasets can now be handled by the definition of generations available. Job UNVIN07 has been updated to create a GDG for the UAG log dataset by default. A new job, UNVIN11, has been created for use during upgrades. It is optional if a customer wishes to continue using sequential datasets for the log. In order to switch to using GDGs for the UAG log dataset, create a GDG base with the same name as the log dataset. The log dataset is named by appending ".UAG.AGENT.LOG" to the value specified for the &PHLQ parameter in the UBROKER JCL PROC. Deleting the GDG will cause UAG to switch back to using sequential datasets. Sample JCL to create a GDG base:
B-10795 B-10701 B-10794	Upgrade Regex support for identifying UTF 8 and UTF 16 encoded file names	Introduce extended REGEX support, based on BOOST, for all platforms to allow identification of filenames regardless of UTF8 or UTF16 encoding. Linux and Windows systems, as well as all Unix derivatives, have been upgraded with 6.7.0.0. z/OS Agent will be updated with 6.8.0.0 as the required BOOST Library is not available/supported on the z/OS platform we are running on. Also, this enhancement is currently available only for internal use in identifying the file names but will be opened to the general use of Extended REGEX support with Universal Agent 6.8.0.0.
B-10801	Port Universal Configuration Manager to 64-bit Windows.	The configuration manager is now also available as a 64-bit application under Windows.
B-10934	Agent Certification	Universal Agent now tested and validated for Windows 2019.
B-10628	Update xpsmsgnt.dll to include messages ids of all Universal Agent message catalogs	Universal Agent 6.6.0.0 identified a couple of missing messages. This backlog ensures messages to be present as in the message catalog.

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