D-11005

z/OS

UAGSRV

Fix truncation of a message responsible for reporting secondary Universal Agent status to the Controller. The truncation could cause the Agent to show Active even if it were actually offline.

D-14191

Unix
Windows
z/OS

UAGSRV

Fix a possible memory corruption when an application monitored by an Application Control Task is stopped immediately after the application is started.

D-14197

Unix
Windows
z/OS

UFTP

Update the libSSH2 3pp vendor library used by UFTP to remediate Critical- and High-severity CVEs.

D-14409

z/OS

UAGSRV (UAGRERUN)

Fixes a problem where the JCL for a z/OS task containing a backward reference to a DD statement in the same step prevented that step from being marked "Restartable" in the z/OS task instance. Steps that contain local backward references should be restartable. Steps that contain backward references to other steps in the job will continue to be non-restartable.

D-13552

Unix
Windows

UAGSRV

Ensures that an Agent's configured BUSINESS_SERVICES are part of any HELLO message the Agent sends to the Controller.

This change was specifically intended to fix an issue where a transient Linux Agent would lose business service information after temporarily going offline.

A persistent Agent on any platform would also benefit from this change if, for example, it were inadvertently deleted from the Controller.

B-18732

Unix (except Solaris)
Windows

OMSSRV
UAGSRV
UEXT
UFTP

Explicitly set and expose the OpenTelemetry schema URL used for traces and metrics exposed by the Universal Agent and Universal Extension tasks. 

Providing the schema URL with each trace message or metric provides information about the format of the data being exported and details the semantic conventions used by the OpenTelemetry library 3pp vendor library.

B-22163

Unix (except Solaris)
Windows

OMSSRV
UAGSRV
UFTP

Add support to export traces and metrics in protobuf binary format. Provides the new OTEL_HTTP_TRACE_PROTOCOL and OTEL_HTTP_METRICS_PROTOCOL configuration options to switch between JSON and binary (the default) encoding.

D-14051

All

UAGSRV

Fixes an issue where the UAG Server's configured SERVICE_TIMEOUT value is ignored when receiving messages from OMS. This fix will decrease the time it takes for UAG Server to detect a dropped connection with OMS, which will in turn decrease connection recovery times.

D-09802

Unix
Windows

UBROKER

When the path to a Universal Broker's .ipc file – which is used to support the Universal Broker's component interface on Unix systems – is greater than 80 characters, its value inside the ubroker.bif file (see UBROKER_BIF) is truncated. This will cause Universal Broker startup to fail. This fix provides support for a file path up to 2000 characters (subject to system to system limits imposed by some platforms).

D-13947

z/OS

UAGSRV

Ensure that a z/OS task does not fail with a JCL error when the task's job issues an IEFC677I message. Prior to this change, it may be possible for the Agent to fail with a S0C4 ABEND or return accurate error information to the Universal Controller.

D-13958

z/OS

UAGSRV

Prior to the Universal Agent's attempt to calculate a system workload value, ensure that the sample size value in an SMF record type 70-1 (SMF70SAM) is non-zero. This check will prevent a divide-by-zero exception (S0C9).

D-11976

Unix
Windows
z/OS

UDM
UDMSRV

Update the International Components for Unicode (ICU) 3pp vendor library to remediate Critical- and High-severity CVEs.

D-12045

Windows

UAGSRV
UCMD
UDM
UFTP

Update the Boost 3pp vendor library used for regular expression support on Windows to remediate Critical- and High-severity CVEs.

D-12235

Unix
Windows

UFTP
UPPS

Update the libcURL 3pp vendor library (used for UFTP file transfers and UPPS Web API calls) to remediate Critical- and High-severity CVEs.

D-12923

Unix
Windows

PYTHON

Update the Universal Agent Python distribution to 3.11.13 to remediate Critical- and High-severity CVEs.

D-13422

Unix
Windows

OMSSRV

Prevent unauthorized access to OMS Server by denying connection attempts from a remote OMS Admin (OMSADMIN) utility. This will restrict OMSADMIN to execution on the OMS Server's system.

D-13581

All

UAGSRV

Fixes an issue the prevented UAG Server from retrying all items in the configured OMS_SERVERS list following a lost connection.

D-13664

Unix
Windows

UAGSRV

Prevents a possible UAG Server crash when an Agent File Monitor task is launched with a variable with no value is specified for the file to be monitored.

D-12045

Windows

UAGSRV
UCMD
UDM
UFTP

Update the Boost 3pp vendor library used for regular expression support on Windows to remediate Critical- and High-severity CVEs.

D-12235

*nix
Windows

UFTP
UPPS

Update the libcURL 3pp vendor library (used for UFTP file transfers and UPPS Web API calls) to remediate Critical- and High-severity CVEs.

D-13664

Unix
Windows

UAGSRV

Prevents a possible UAG Server crash when an Agent File Monitor task is launched with a variable with no value is specified for the file to be monitored.

D-10535

Unix

UAGSRV

Prevents an Agent File Monitor task failure when the specified file contains trailing whitespace that is not a space (e.g., a newline control character, '\n').

D-12560

Unix
Windows
z/OS

UFTP

Update the libSSH2 3pp vendor library used by UFTP to remediate Critical- and High-severity CVEs.

D-13077

Unix
Windows
z/OS

UFTP

Fixes an issue for transfers to or from an IBM i FTP Server, where UFTP attempts to issue LIB file system commands for a location outside the Library file system.

D-13550

Unix (except HP-UX, Solaris)
Windows

UEXT

Update the setuptools and certifi Python modules provided for Universal Extension development and installed to ./universal/uagsrv/uext. These updates will remediate Critical- and High-severity CVEs.

D-13676

z/OS

UAGSRV

Prevent an 0C4 abend that could occur in UAGSRV as it evaluates the memory allocated for some JCL SET parameters.

D-13707

Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows

PYTHON

Decrease the size of the Universal Agent's Python distribution in order to decrease the overall size of the Universal Agent distribution file.

D-09780

Unix
Windows
z/OS

UBROKER

Prevents a Universal Broker crash following successful Manager Fault Tolerant (MFT) recovery of a UCMD Manager task. In this situation, recovery processing was successful. The crash occurred as the Broker cleaned up tracking records stored in its BerkeleyDB database files.

D-13549

Windows

UAGSRV

Fixes a problem in which the Universal Agent for Windows process could crash at startup during Universal Extension task initialization. Specifically, the issue occurred within the Agent's Python discovery processing.

D-13578

z/OS

UAGSRV

Ensure that the UAG Server's configured CODE_PAGE is honored during OMS message processing.

Specifically, this fix addresses a problem with z/OS Task parameter translation when the z/OS system environment is configured to use a codepage other than IBM1047 (UAG Server's default codepage). The problem applies to the following situation:

• The z/OS Task defines one or more task parameters

• UAG Server uses the parameter(s) to construct a SET statement for insertion into the task's JCL

• A parameter's name or value contains a character whose IBM1047 encoding is different from the encoding used by the z/OS system's configured codepage (e.g., IBM1141)

Prior to this fix, the parameter's name and value would always be translated from UTF8 to IBM1047, even if the UAG Server's configured codepage were set to something other than IBM1047. 

With this fix, UAG Server will now honor its configured codepage and translate the parameter name and value accordingly. The default is still IBM1047.

Note that a similar defect, D-13592, is provided for this release that fixes translation of parameters used for JCL variable substitution. These are parameters whose names start with *@.

D-13589

Unix (Solaris only)

INSTALL

Fixes a problem with Universal Agent upgrades on Solaris that could cause Universal Extension tasks to fail. The failures only occur if the Universal Extension API changed between your installed version and the upgraded version. The fix provided in this maintenance will ensure that existing Universal Extension tasks execute successfully following the upgrade.

D-13592

z/OS

UAGSRV

Ensure that the UAG Server's configured CODE_PAGE is honored during OMS message processing.

Specifically, this fix addresses a problem with z/OS Task parameter translation when the z/OS system environment is configured to use a codepage other than IBM1047 (UAG Server's default codepage). The problem applies to the following situation:

• The z/OS Task defines one or more task parameters that start with *@

• UAG Server uses these parameters to perform variable substitution in the z/OS task's JCL

• The z/OS environment is configured to use a codepage that uses an EBCDIC encoding for the '@' symbol that is not the same as IBM1047 (0x7C). Of the codepages provided by the Universal Agent install, the following use a different encoding for the '@' symbol:

  • IBM1141, IBM1144, IBM273, IBM280 (0xB5)

  • IBM1142, IBM277 (0x80)

  • IBM1143, IBM278 (0xEC)

  • IMB1147 (0x44)

If your z/OS system's codepage is configured with one of the above codepages, this fix will provide the ability to retain the '@' symbol in the task parameter definition and your z/OS task's JCL.

Prior to this fix, the parameter would always be translated from UTF8 to IBM1047, even if the UAG Server's configured codepage were set to something other than IBM1047. 

With this fix, UAG Server will now honor its configured codepage and translate the '@' symbol correctly. The default is still IBM1047.

Note that a similar defect, D-13578, is provided for this release that fixes translation of parameters used for JCL SET statements.

D-12968

Windows

UAGSRV

Fixes a memory leak observed when running several Agent File Monitor tasks over an extended period of time.

D-13463

Unix
Windows

UAGSRV

Fixes a problem where a Universal Extension Task that defines a field with a percent sign (%) in its value may be misinterpreted by UAG Server, causing it to crash.

D-11317

Unix

UAGSRV

Improves trace file messaging for an Agent File Monitor task that executes on a Linux/Unix Agent. Messages are now consistent with those written for Agent File Monitor tasks that execute on Windows Agents.

D-12016

Unix
Windows
z/OS

UCMD
UCMSRV
UDM
UDMSRV
UFTP

Library dependencies updated due to vulnerabilities.

D-12785

All

All

Improve data security by making sure all references to sensitive data are cleared before the memory holding that data is freed.

Note that no memory was leaked nor was any sensitive data exposed prior to this change. This change applies to the way in which the Universal Agent applications are built. Some compilers may "skip" a call to clear memory in situations where that that memory is immediately freed in the next statement. This is an undesirable optimization, and this change prevents the call to clear the memory from being skipped.

D-12805

Unix

UEM
UEMSRV

Fixes a problem where UEM tries to monitor a symbolic link on a Linux system that resides in a world-writeable directory.

D-13270

All

UAGSRV

Fixes a problem where a Universal Broker started with the command line option -dest stderr failed to honor the UAGLOGLVL environment variable.

D-13397

Unix (Linux Intel only)

INSTALL

A Universal Agent install or upgrade on Linux Intel (the RPM or Debian package) would replace file permissions for the /etc/universal/uai_log4jConfiguration.xml file, which is used by the Universal Agent for SOA. This change preserves that file's permissions.

This issue only affects users of the Universal Agent for SOA product.

D-13418

Unix

UDM
UDMSRV

Add support for the rdw session attribute for UDM sessions that execute on Linux/Unix.

This change allows users to inform UDM that a file transferred from Linux/Unix to z/OS contains RDW that can either be discarded or retained on a transfer to z/OS. This attribute was previously available on Windows and z/OS only.

D-01220

All

UBROKER