All Platforms Package Maintenance Levels - Agent 6.4.x

All Platforms Package Maintenance Levels - Agent 6.4.x

Overview

This page identifies the changes made in all Universal Agent 6.4.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 6.4.x packages, such as Universal Command Agent for SOA 6.4.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 6.4.3.0 - June 30, 2018

Change ID

Platform

Component

Description

Change ID

Platform

Component

Description

B-03530

z/OS

UAGSRV

Reduce dependency on the global LNKLST and allow a STEPLIB to be specified for the OPSSTP00 step which points to UAGRERUN.

B-05053

All

UAGSRV

Make default network provider OMS in UAGSRV configuration.

B-05131

Unix,
Windows

UAGSRV

Add automatic path resolution for UCMD, UDM, and USAP when executed from UAG.

B-05140

All

UAGSRV

Remove obsolete options that previously supported message hub and transport components.

B-07082

Unix,
Windows

Install

Add option to install to disable UAGSRV execution at Universal Broker startup.

B-07325

z/OS

UAGSRV

Display the UAGRERUN version in the rerun report.

B-08953

All

UDM,
UDMSRV

Add support for sleep statement to scripting language.

B-09033

Unix (all, except HPUX),
Windows

Install

Bundle a Python3 distribution with the Universal Agent.
 
NOTE: This option is not available for user mode installs.

B-09121

All

UFTP

Add wildcard support for GET/PUT/DELETE commands, allowing them to operate on one or more files.

B-09213

z/OS

UAGSRV,
UAGRERUN

Reduce dependency on SMF exits by moving rerun/restart behavior from UAGUJI to UAGRERUN.

B-09240

Unix,
Windows

Install

Add ability to set the agent_clusters option in UAGSRV’s configuration.

B-09258

All

UFTP

Improve error reporting when an attempt is made to transfer multiple files to a destination that is not a directory.

B-09268

All

UFTP

Remove wildcard requirements for MGET/MPUT/MDELETE commands, allowing them to operate on single files.

B-09287

Unix,
Windows

UPPS

Stop WAITing for a job and consider item complete when its distribution status is NA and it has a runtime status of Cancelled.

B-09298

Unix,
Windows

UPPS

Add agent support for the Controller’s new PeopleSoft task type.

B-09304

Unix

UAGSRV

Add the -bif_directory option to the command line for spawned UCMD, UDM, UFTP, and USAP tasks to ensure components executed from a user mode install register with the correct local Broker.

B-09338

z/OS

UAGSRV,
UAGRERUN

Improve sequential dataset cleanup for reruns/restarts.

B-09340

z/OS

UAGSRV,
UAGRERUN

Improve GDG dataset cleanup when a z/OS task is rerun/restarted.

B-09349

z/OS

UBROKER

Create external links to UCMD Manager and USAP from Broker to support z/OS 2.3 requirements.

B-09354

Unix,
Windows

UFTP

Increase maximum allowable packet size for SFTP transfers.

B-09384

Unix,
Windows

OMSSRV

Refresh message level for OMS Server in response to a UCTL refresh command.

B-09386

Unix,
Windows

OMS Client

Improve diagnostic information collection in the OMS Java client, which exchanges messages between an OMS Server and the Controller.

B-09418

Unix,
Windows

Install

Add ability to set the agent_ip option in UAGSRV’s configuration.

B-09469

z/OS

UAGRERUN,
UAGUJI

Move skip step and step list processing from UAGUJI SMF exit to UAGRERUN, along with restartable/non-restartable step eligibility and dataset deletion criteria.
This change effectively deprecates UAGUJI, which is no longer provided in the z/OS delivery.

B-09481

Unix,
Windows

UPPS

Add ability to retrieve Output Destination Format options.

B-09508

All

UDM,
UDMSRV

Add session attributes ostype and casesensitive attributes to provide OS and file system information.

D-06562

All

UDM,
UDMSRV

Wildcard token parsing from a forfiles loop does not always honor the file system’s case sensitivity rules.

D-08988

Unix

UAGSRV

Fixes behavior where a file monitor task may stop monitoring or fail under heavy load or unusual circumstances.

D-09000

z/OS

UCERT

Fix revocation date value when printing a CRL from z/OS.

D-09069

z/OS

UAGSRV

Correct “Missing command option prefix character” error on z/OS when commands exist in the Additional FTP Commands field of an FTP File Monitor task.

D-09102

Windows

UAGSRV

Fix a problem where a System Monitor executed on Windows may not authenticate specified task credentials correctly.

D-09212

All

UFTP

Prevent exception if user does not have access to the local source directory when executing an (M)PUT command.

D-09122

All

UCMD,
UCTL,
UDM,
UDMSRV,
UEM,
UFTP

Fixes a situation in which Universal Encrypted files may be left open after decryption. Such files are now closed immediately after decryption.

D-09127

z/OS

UAGSRV

Prevent creation of an empty DSN exclude list if no datasets are specified for exclusion from dataset cleanup upon a rerun/restart.

D-09174

Unix,
Windows

UAGSRV

Fix a problem where FTP file monitors may not honor the specified polling time.

D-09237

Windows

UBROKER

Create a ubroker.shd file at shutdown to allow a Universal Broker service to restart even if ubroker.pid file was not deleted by previous instance.

D-09262

z/OS

UAGCMDZ

Fix a problem where a uencrypted command file is not recognized when prefixed by ‘dd:’. The ‘dd:’ prefix is now optional when specified with the -x command line option.

Release 6.4.2.2 - March 23, 2018

Change ID

Platform

Component

Description

Change ID

Platform

Component

Description

B-09118

UNIX (Linux, x64
RPM-based only),
Windows (x64 only)

USAP

Modify USAP "generate job definition" command to generate an XBP 3.0 style spool list recipient.

B-09251

UNIX (Linux, x64
RPM-based only),
Windows (x64 only)

USAP,
UAGSRV

Run an SAP Model Job and Generate an SAP Job Definition without providing a Jobcount ID.
 

Note

Only the version number changed for UAGSRV, to support integration with a new feature delivered for the Universal Controller SAP task type (see B-09299 in the Universal Controller 6.4.x Maintenance).

D-09063

UNIX (Linux, x64
RPM-based only),
Windows (x64 only)

USAP

XBP 2.0 style spool list recipient does not get defined properly from USAP job definition.

D-09139

z/OS                          

UAGSRV

Correct an issue that may cause UAGSRV to ABEND when a large job is submitted for rerun.

Release 6.4.2.1 - February 28, 2018

Change ID

Platform

Component

Description

Change ID

Platform

Component

Description

B-09090

Unix (Linux)

Install

Deliver RPM package for PowerPC (Little Endian) port of Universal Agent.

Release 6.4.2.1 - February 9, 2018

Change ID

Platform

Component

Description

Change ID

Platform

Component

Description

B-09082

Windows

Install

Remove delivery of Microsoft VisualC++ 2005 runtime libraries, which have been superseded by the 2010 runtimes.

B-09094

Windows

Install
(user mode only)

Update interface to ubrsvc.bat with -start, -restart, and -status options.

D-08901

z/OS

UAGSRV,
UFTP

Convert LOCSITE options passed via the z/OS subcommand field to UFTP-specific options.

D-09064

Unix,
Windows

UFTP

(M)DELETE and (M)GET with move fail when remote relative path is specified for an SFTP file transfer task.

D-09067

Unix,
Windows,
z/OS

UFTP

When the file path specified by the -src option contains no trailing slash, its LIST output differs from the output shown when the trailing slash is specified.

D-09068

Windows

Install
(user mode only)

Ensure that UCMD, UDM, UFTP, and USAP always register with the correct local Universal Broker when executed via a Controller task on a user mode-installed Agent.

D-09082

Unix (AIX)

Install

AIX upgrade fails because of existing an ./archive1/.archive1 directory.

D-09087

Windows

UAGSRV

An application monitor that executes with credentials could cause UAGSRV to crash.

D-09089

Unix,
Windows

UAGSRV

If the command line options that UAGSRV sends over STDIN to execute a Universal Command or Universal Connector for SAP are unexpectedly written to STDERR, a password in plain text may be exposed.

D-09096

Unix,
Windows,
z/OS

UFTP

Do not treat a CURLE_PARTIAL_FILE (18) return code value as a failure when it is accompanied by a server return code of 450.

D-09097

z/OS

UFTP

Accept FTP server passwords up to 255 characters when a z/OS UFTP client is executed via a File Transfer task.

Release 6.4.2.0 - December 31, 2017

Change ID

Platform

Component

Description

Change ID

Platform

Component

Description

B-05451

Windows

Install

Add ability to install multiple agent instances on Windows using a new user-mode install package.

B-06263

z/OS

UAGSRV

Add support for job classes up to 8 characters.

B-07295

Unix,
Windows

UAGSRV,
UFTP

Add support for passphrase-protected SSH keys to UFTP.

B-08533

All

UCERT

Add ability to generate certificate requests with a version of 3 and exponent of 65537.

B-08534

All

UCERT

Allow an existing private key to be used when creating certificate request.

B-08563

Unix (Linux RPM),
Windows

UPPS

Allow Submit Command options to be specified from the command line and a definition file.

B-08592

z/OS

UCMD

Add ability to scrub IBM Tivoli Workstation variables (specified with //*%OPC) from scripts executed via UCMD. Other patterns may also be scrubbed using the script_line_ignore_mask option.