All Platforms Package Maintenance Levels - Agent 7.1.x
Overview
This page identifies the changes made in all Universal Agent 7.1.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 7.1.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 7.1.0.5 - July 31, 2023
Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-11137 | Windows | UAGSRV | Restore the ability for Windows file monitor tasks to correctly interpret file paths that contain a double backslash (i.e., \\). |
| D-11156 | Unix | UAGSRV | Ensure that all file descriptors are properly closed when a task fails because credentials were specified for a user account that does not exist. |
| D-11166 | All | UFTP | Fixes an issue that causes UFTP to fail when multiple files are transferred to a remote directory path that contains spaces. |
| D-11178 | Unix | UAGSRV | Fixes an issue that could result in excessive CPU consumption when UAG Server launches and/or executes several different task types concurrently. |
| D-11238 | Unix | UFTP UPPS | Update the libssh2 library used by Universal Agent components from 1.9.0 to 1.10.0. |
| D-11335 | Windows | UAGSRV | Fixes an issue that prevents successful completion of a Change file monitor instance when the file path contains double backslashes (i.e., \\) or a single forward slash (i.e., /). Prior to this fix, the task instance remains in a Running status. |
| D-11424 | z/OS | UAGU83 | Fixes a problem where an ABEND within the UAGU83 SMF exit module could cause RMF to terminate with an S0C1. |
Release 7.1.0.4 - April 28, 2023
Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-09964 | Unix | UAGSRV | Ensure that all file descriptors are closed when an attempt to execute an Agent File Monitor task using credentials for a non-existent user is specified. |
| D-10316 | Unix (except Solaris Intel) Windows | USAP | Fix an issue that requires SAP credentials to be specified when using X.509 certificate authentication. It is now possible to execute USAP using only an X.509 certificate. |
| D-10510 | z/OS | UDM UDMSRV | Eliminate all "benign" ICH408I message occurrences from the RACF log. These messages would sometimes appear during UDM's processing, when checking for access to resources it required. UDM would silently ignore the situation that caused these messages, using an alternate execution path. This change will ensure that UDM takes no action that could result in these messages. |
| D-10727 | z/OS | UCMD | Fix an issue that prevented a z/OS UCMD Manager from performing a success network fault tolerant (NFT) recovery when SystemSSL was used. |
| D-10897 | Unix Windows | UAGSRV | Fix a situation in which a create or change file monitor task using a stability check may fail to detect the creation of or change to intended files. |
| D-10910 | All | UBROKER | Fix a memory leak that, if left unchecked, could require frequent Universal Broker restarts. |
| D-10934 | All | UBROKER | Fix a memory leak that could occur within the Universal Broker Memory when responding to a UAG Server configuration refresh request |
| D-11003 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Fix a situation in which a z/OS File Monitor task could be triggered more than once for the same dataset or file |
| D-11059 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Fix a situation in which the step that executes the UAGRERUN utility is inserted into a z/OS task's JCL at an unexpected/unsupported location |
| D-11084 | Unix (except HP-UX) | UAGSRV UEXT | Fix a performance issue that may occur when a Universal Extension task's output is returned via EXTENTION OUTPUT. |
| D-11108 | Unix (except HP-UX) Windows | UAGSRV UEXT | Correct the spelling of a credential's passphrase when referenced by a Universal Extension task. The previous spelling pasphrase is now corrected to passphrase. For backward compatibility, pasphrase is still accepted, but new extensions should use the correct spelling as this backward compatibility could be lost in future releases. |
| D-11118 | All | UAGSRV | Fix a situation in which tasks could end with a Start Failure or say in a Queued status if the Agent's hostname is longer than 62 characters. |
| D-11212 | Unix | Python | Update the version of Python distributed with Universal Agent from 3.7.6 to 3.7.16. |
Release 7.1.0.3 - November 18, 2022
Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-10726 | z/OS | UCMD | Fix a problem in which passwords that contain spaces are not parsed correctly. |
| D-10916 | Unix Windows | UAGSRV | Resolve a memory leak observed when executing a tasks from UAG Server. |
| D-10918 | Unix (AIX, Linux Ubuntu, Linux PPC, Linux s390x) | Python | Update the Universal Agent Python distributions to provide the built-in _sqlite3 Python module. |
| D-10942 | Unix Windows | UAGSRV | Prevent a situation in which several concurrent UCMD, UDM, or USAP tasks will fail with the following error: Error in caller provided UUID |
Release 7.1.0.2 - August 17, 2022
Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-10862 | Unix (except Solaris Intel) | USAP | Fixes a problem introduced in the UA 7.1.0.1 release by D-10828, where model jobs whose jobnames were less than 32 characters would fail upon execution. With this fix, model jobs with jobnames less than or equal to 32 characters will execute successfully. Note Because the UA 7.1.0.2 release only contains a fix for USAP and USAP is not provided for Solaris Intel, no 7.1.0.2 package is available for that platform. As of this writing, the most recent Agent package available for Solaris Intel is UA 7.1.0.1. |
Release 7.1.0.1 - July 12, 2022
Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-10705 | Unix | UAGSRV | Fix a problem where File Monitor tasks do not honor a specified stable period if there are multiple file monitor instances running with the same credentials. Note This item may be identified in other UA releases as D-10568 or D-10715. |
| D-10707 | All | UAGSRV | Prevent a deadlock that may occur when a CHANGE File Monitor instance detects new matching files. Note This item may be identified in other UA releases as D-10587 or D-10716. |
| D-10709 | Windows | UAGSRV | Fix an issue where a File Monitor task running on a Windows Agent fails to recognize Unicode characters. Note This item was originally delivered in UA 7.2.0.0 as D-10379. |
| D-10710 | Unix | UAGSRV | When an SAP task instance is cancelled, ensure that the associated Universal Connector for SAP (USAP) process is cancelled as well. Note This item was originally delivered in UA 7.2.0.0 as D-10403. |
| D-10711 | Unix | UBROKER | When the Universal Broker daemon encounters an EPIPE when attempting to log a message to Note This item was originally delivered in UA 7.2.0.0 as D-10530. |
| D-10718 | All | UDM | Prevent an authentication error for a File Transfer task when the following conditions exist:
For example: Starting with UA 7.0.0.0, this will cause the resolved $(ops_primary_cred_pwd) value in the Note This item was originally delivered in UA 7.2.0.0 as D-10523. |
| D-10728 | Unix | UAGSRV | Fix a problem where multiple Universal Extension or Universal Task instances may eventually exceed the FIFO ulimit. |
| D-10733 | All | UAGSRV | Prevent a CHANGE File Monitor that specifies a stable period from incorrectly generating multiple events. Note This item may be identified in other UA releases as D-10544 or D-10732. |
| D-10794 | Unix (Solaris Only) | UCMD | Improve support for Unicode characters in passwords that reside in a Universal Encrypted file. Note This item was originally delivered in UA 7.2.0.0 as D-10505. |
| D-10795 | Unix (except HP-UX and Solaris Intel) | USAP | Prevent a failure for the Display Event History command when the timestamp exceeds 8 characters. Note This item may be identified in other UA releases as D-10742 or D-10796. |
| D-10828 | Unix (except HP-UX and Solaris Intel) | USAP | Prevent a failure when a model job uses a jobname of exactly 32 characters in length. Note This item may be identified in other UA releases as D-10730 or D-10827. |
Release 7.1.0.0 - October 4, 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-12809 | All | USAP | Update USAP to support the RSPARAMSL_255 data type for variants. The following USAP operations may now take advantage of this change:
These changes are supported for XBP 2.0 and XBP 3.0, but full 255-character support ultimately depends on the SAP function module implementation. Note For the most consistent RSPARAMSL_255 support, Stonebranch recommends using SAP NW RFC library version 7.5.x and XBP 3.0 (controlled via the USAP XBP_MAX configuration option). |
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-13316 | Unix (except HP-UX) | UFTP | Update SSH Key Exchange and Cipher support for SFTP transfers. Provides better compatibility with default OpenSSH configurations, by making the following changes to supported key exchange methods: Added:
Removed:
The diffie-helman-group-exchange-sha256 key exchange method was left unchanged. Support for the following ciphers was added:
Support for the following ciphers was left unchanged:
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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-13821 | Unix | UEXT | Update the values supported via the requires_python declaration of a Universal Extension implementation as follows:
Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
B-13822 | Windows | UEXT | Allow usermode installs to discover the Python distribution provided by a system mode-installed Agent. Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
B-13831 | Unix | UEXT | Provide the ability for Universal Extensions to detect and respond to Cancel commands issued from Universal Controller. This option provides the new UAG Server configuration option, EXTENSION_CANCEL_TIMEOUT. The ability to configure that value at install time and/or Universal Broker startup is also provided. Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
B-13846 | Unix | UEXT | Allow Universal Extension tasks to accept authentication tokens (e.g., used for Web or cloud-based service authentication) from a Universal Controller resolvable credential object. Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
B-13860 | Unix | UEXT | Refactor the Universal Extension logging API so that it is no longer necessary to instantiate an ExtensionLogger object. Logging methods can now be accessed using the following import:
Logging methods can be invoked using calls such as either:
Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
B-13885 | z/OS | UBROKER | Suppress ICH408I messages in the RACF log when running the Broker with a user without BPX.SUPERUSER access. This message is an expected response to a check of authority level, but repeated checks result in several instances of the ICH408I message appear in the log. |
B-13908 | Unix | UEXT | Add the ability to execute Dynamic Commands within a Universal Extension task without launching a separate process (that is, support “in-process” Dynamic Command execution). Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
B-13931 | Unix | OMS | Add a service timeout implementation to the OMS Java Client to enable detection of connection issues without waiting for a TCP keepalive interval to elapse. Note The ability to configure this value is provided via the Universal Controller with B-13967. |
B-13989 | Windows | UEXT | Provide a new utility to assist with Universal Extension development that provides a command line interface to Universal Extension task APIs offered by Universal Controller. Please see the Universal Extension development documentation for information on this new “uip” utility. 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. |
B-14255 | Windows | UEXT | Extend the uip utility delivered by B-13989 with an init command that can be used to initialize a working directory (e.g., a local Git repository) for Universal Extension development. Please see the Universal Extension development documentation for information on the new “uip” utility. Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
D-07313 | Unix | UAGSRV | Improve message handling and separation to prevent possible message loss. |
D-08997 | z/OS | UDM | Prevent a S0C4 when executing transfers of UTF16-encoded datasets. |
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-09852 | Unix | UDM | Ensure that the message that shows the result of the CD command displays correctly. This issue was most visible on zOS, but could occur on any Linux/Unix system whose default locale is not UTF8. |
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-10189 | z/OS | PKG | Fix a problem that prevented the installation of hlq.SUNVSAMP(UBRDBSPZ). |
D-10210 | All | UDM | Scrubs any password specified with the OPEN statement from trace file output. |
D-10256 | All | UDM | Fixes a crash that could occur if the UDM Manager message level was set to “trace” from the command line. |
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-10371 | Unix | OMSSRV | Prevents re-delivery of OMS messages following automatic recovery executed against a corrupted, truncated data file. |
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-10426 | z/OS | UBROKER | Fixes a problem that prevented UBROKER startup while loading the UNVACTRT SMF exit. |
| D-10432 | Unix | UEXT | Fixes an issue that prevented collection of STDOUT when a Universal Extension task is cancelled. Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
D-10435 | Windows | UCMD | Issue a configuration error when the DES-CBC-SHA cipher is specified from a Windows component. This cipher was deprecated in a previous release and since then, Agent server components would fail to negotiate a session with a manager component that only requested the DES-CBC-SHA cipher. However, the value itself should have been flagged during configuration processing and not presented to the server. |
D-10470 | Linux PPC | All | Prevent a crash during OpenSSL random number generation seeding observed on RHEL8 on a PowerPC system. |
D-10474 | z/OS | UCMD
| Prevent a situation in which command line parameters provided via a SYSIN statement were ignored if they followed a password on the same line. For example, given the following:
The -level option would be ignored unless moved to a separate line: |