Release Notes

Universal Agent release 7.5.0.0 contains the following high-level features. For a complete list of all the included features and fixes please refer to the Universal Agent 7.5.x Maintenance list.

Architecture

Backlog	Title	Description
B-11499	Make OS info available from UQuery and Agent trace files.	Adds operating system name and version to the Universal Query Report heading, and adds operating system name and version to header information contained Universal Agent component trace files.
B-16795	Support Special (German, French, etc) Characters in windows Agent.	Improves the management and display of an Agent task's output that contains diacritic characters and other language-specific features when that output is viewed from the Controller.
B-16797	Specify where to write a script in OS type task.	Adds the ability to control exactly where a script is written by defining the following environment variables in a UC Task Definition: UAG_SCRIPT_DIRECTORY - specifies a directory that is visible to the native user environment in which the task executes. UAG_SCRIPT_DIRECTORY_RELATIVE_TO - used with UAG_SCRIPT_DIRECTORY to specify a location in an isolated execution environment (e.g., chroot). This is a location that the user in whose context the task executes would not necessarily see in their native shell environment but is visible to the task's environment.
B-16813	Warm-start processing must be optimized to prevent "active" status delay in Controller.	Improves the Universal Agent Server's warm start processing so that a re-starting Agent will display an "Active" status in the Universal Controller with minimal delay.
B-17048	Make 'max_msg_size' and 'msg_chunk_size' refreshable configuration options.	Add the ability for Universal Control to refresh an OMS Server's MAX_MSG_SIZE and MSG_CHUNK_SIZE configuration options without requiring a server restart.
B-17449	Update Automatic Database Recovery Behavior.	The UA 7.5.0.0 release provides improvements to the automatic Broker database recovery feature.

Docker Images

Backlog

Title

Description

B-17665

Add Universal Agent 7.5 to Docker Hub.

Universal Agent 7.5.0.0 is now GA.

Affected Docker images:

stonebranch/universal-agent:7.5.0.0
stonebranch/universal-agent:7.5-latest
stonebranch/universal-agent:latest
stonebranch/universal-agent:debian-7.5.0.0
stonebranch/universal-agent:debian-7.5-latest
stonebranch/universal-agent:debian-latest

B-17667

Remove Universal Agent 7.1 From Docker Hub

Universal Agent 7.1.0.0 is no longer supported.

Affected Docker images:

stonebranch/universal-agent:7.1.0.4

B-17668

New Tagging Strategy

New Tagging Strategy for UA images:

latest Always the most Recent UA Image for RHEL
debain-latest Always the most Recent UA Image for Debian
v.r.m.m Every Modification and Maintenance for each Supported Release will be available. RHEL. Previously only the most current was maintained.
debian-v.r.m.m Every Modification and Maintenance for each Supported Release will be available. Debian. Previously only the most current was maintained.
v.r-latest Each Supported Release's most current modification / maintenance. RHEL
debian-v.r-latest Each Supported Release's most current modification / maintenance. Debian

Observability

Backlog	Title	Description
B-17583	Support for opentelemetry-cpp client library and dependencies.	Observability complements traditional monitoring by providing actionable insights based on metric, trace, and log data. The OpenTelemetry client allows UAC Integration Tasks to inject 3^rd party application data for observability. Future releases will add additional data from UA components.
B-17656	Add data management support for extension tasks.	Add the ability to define activity tracing and collect performance metrics for Universal Extension tasks.
B-17657	Add data management support to Universal Agent components.	Groundwork for UA components to generate telemetry data for observability.

SAP Task Enhancement

Backlog	Title	Description
B-17457	SAP Task Enhancement.	USAP updates to support the Enhanced SAP Task in UC 7.5.0.0.

SFTP

Backlog	Title	Description
B-17602	Remove TFTP support.	Remove support for the TFTP protocol.

VSCode Plugin

Backlog	Title	Description
B-18306	Integrate Opentelemetry into the debugger.	Integrate OpenTelemetry into the Extension debugger.
B-15847	Add code warning when Universal Extension Template is out of sync with fields in Extension code.	Adds the ability for the VisualStudio Code Plugin for Universal Extension development to detect when an extension's implementation no longer matches the extension template defined in the Controller.
B-16800	Add support for multiple extensions in a workspace.	Add support for multi-root workspaces to the VisualStudio Code Plugin for Universal Extension development. This support will allow extension developers to work on several different extensions in the same VSCode workspace.
B-16882	Automatically create folder for a new project if one doesn't exist.	Improves the initialization of a new Universal Extension project by automatically creating that project's folder if it does not already exist.

z/OS Enhancements

Backlog	Title	Desciption
B-17520	z/OS Task/Task Instance Edit JCL (JCL Location and JCL Override Location).	z/OS tasks now optionally allow the JCL to be fetched for viewing / editing from the JCL or JCL Override locations from z/OS Task in UC 7.5.0.0.
B-17521	z/OS Task Enhancement: Simulation - Resolution of JCL substitution variables.	Add Agent support to zOS tasks for Controller z/OS Task Simulations. Any symbols that are defined in the JCL will be resolved when the simulation is run.
B-17523	z/OS agent configuration parameter to dynamically add or override the USER keyword on the JOB Statement.	New UAG Server configuration option ZOS_JOB_USER provides the ability to dynamically add or override the USER keyword on a JOB Statement.
B-17755	z/OS Agent File Monitor Trigger new Change Monitor option for Trigger on Create	Adds Agent support for the new Trigger on Create option for Change file monitors. This allows a zOS agent to look for dataset creations or changes from the same file monitor task instance.

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