Universal Agent 7.5.0.0 Release Notes
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 |
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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:
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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 |
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B-17665 | Add Universal Agent 7.5 to Docker Hub. | Universal Agent 7.5.0.0 is now GA. Affected Docker images:
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B-17667 | Remove Universal Agent 7.1 From Docker Hub | Universal Agent 7.1.0.0 is no longer supported. Affected Docker images:
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B-17668 | New Tagging Strategy | New Tagging Strategy for UA images:
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Observability
Backlog | Title | Description |
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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 3rd 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 |
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B-17457 | SAP Task Enhancement. | USAP updates to support the Enhanced SAP Task in UC 7.5.0.0. |
SFTP
Backlog | Title | Description |
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B-17602 | Remove TFTP support. | Remove support for the TFTP protocol. |
VSCode Plugin
Backlog | Title | Description |
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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 |
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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. |