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 |
|---|---|---|---|
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, | 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, | 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, | Add support for sleep statement to scripting language. |
B-09033 | Unix (all, except HPUX), | Install | Bundle a Python3 distribution with the Universal Agent. |
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, | Reduce dependency on SMF exits by moving rerun/restart behavior from UAGUJI to UAGRERUN. |
B-09240 | Unix, | 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, | 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, | 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, | Improve sequential dataset cleanup for reruns/restarts. |
B-09340 | z/OS | UAGSRV, | 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, | UFTP | Increase maximum allowable packet size for SFTP transfers. |
B-09384 | Unix, | OMSSRV | Refresh message level for OMS Server in response to a UCTL refresh command. |
B-09386 | Unix, | OMS Client | Improve diagnostic information collection in the OMS Java client, which exchanges messages between an OMS Server and the Controller. |
B-09418 | Unix, | Install | Add ability to set the agent_ip option in UAGSRV’s configuration. |
B-09469 | z/OS | UAGRERUN, | Move skip step and step list processing from UAGUJI SMF exit to UAGRERUN, along with restartable/non-restartable step eligibility and dataset deletion criteria. |
B-09481 | Unix, | UPPS | Add ability to retrieve Output Destination Format options. |
B-09508 | All | UDM, | Add session attributes ostype and casesensitive attributes to provide OS and file system information. |
D-06562 | All | UDM, | 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, | 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, | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
B-09118 | UNIX (Linux, x64 | USAP | Modify USAP "generate job definition" command to generate an XBP 3.0 style spool list recipient. |
B-09251 | UNIX (Linux, x64 | USAP, | 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
B-09082 | Windows | Install | Remove delivery of Microsoft VisualC++ 2005 runtime libraries, which have been superseded by the 2010 runtimes. |
B-09094 | Windows | Install | Update interface to ubrsvc.bat with -start, -restart, and -status options. |
D-08901 | z/OS | UAGSRV, | Convert LOCSITE options passed via the z/OS subcommand field to UFTP-specific options. |
D-09064 | Unix, | UFTP | (M)DELETE and (M)GET with move fail when remote relative path is specified for an SFTP file transfer task. |
D-09067 | Unix, | 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 | 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 |
D-09087 | Windows | UAGSRV | An application monitor that executes with credentials could cause UAGSRV to crash. |
D-09089 | Unix, | 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, | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
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, | UAGSRV, | 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), | 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. |