Overview

This page identifies the changes made in all Universal Agent 7.6.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 7.6.x packages, such as Universal Command Agent for SOA 6.7.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 7.6.1.0 - December 9, 2025

Change Id

Platform

Component

Description

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.

Default Behavior Change

This item was first delivered in the UA 7.9.0.0 release.

For the December 2025 maintenance releases, the default encoding for all supported Agent versions (incl., 7.6.1, 7.7.2, and 7.8.3) was changed from JSON to protobuf binary.

Universal Extension tasks using OpenTelemetry features now require Python 3.8 or higher.

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.

Release 7.6.0.17 - November 11, 2025

Change Id	Platform	Component	Description
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). Note There were code changes made for this defect that are shared between Unix and Windows implementations. However, the Universal Agent for Windows uses TCP/IP for the Universal Broker's component interface. This means that the values saved in the `ubroker.bif` file for Windows were not affected by this defect and will not change.
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).

Release 7.6.0.16 - October 14, 2025

Change Id	Platform	Component	Description
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.

Change Id	Platform	Component	Description
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.

Release 7.6.0.15 - August 12, 2025

Change Id	Platform	Component	Description
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.

Release 7.6.0.14 - July 8, 2025

Change Id	Platform	Component	Description
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 @. Possibility of Breaking Change Exercise care before doing the SMP/E ACCEPT of this PTF. If any work-arounds exist that rely on a task parameter's name or value always* being translated as IBM1047, they will no longer work if the CODE_PAGE option is set in UAGCFG00 to something other than IBM1047. For example, the at symbol ('@') has a UTF8 encoding of 0x0040. Its IBM1047 encoding is 0x7C. Its IBM1141 encoding is 0xB5. Prior to this fix, it the z/OS system's configured codepage were IBM1141, the '@' symbol in a task parameter name or value had to be replaced with a section sign ('§'). This would force the UTF8-to-IBM1047 translation to produce an encoding of 0xB5. When viewing the SET statement that UAG Server adds to the task's JCL, the value would be shown as '@' as expected. With this change, you can now set the CODE_PAGE option in UAGCFG00 to IBM1141 and use the '@' symbol in the task parameter. The work-around described above is no longer needed. If you choose to leave such work-arounds in place, simply make sure the UAG Server's CODE_PAGE option in UAGCFG00 is undefined or set to IBM1047. If all of your task parameter names and values are inserted into the JCL's SET statements correctly today (that is, without any work-arounds), then you do not need to do anything after applying this fix. Everything will continue to work as it does today.
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. Possibility of Breaking Change Exercise care before doing the SMP/E ACCEPT of this PTF. If any work-arounds exist in your JCL to replace the '@' variable with a symbol that will match the IBM1047 encoding for '@' AND the CODE_PAGE option is set in your UAGCFG00 to something other than IBM1047, the work-around will no longer work. For example, the at symbol ('@') has a UTF8 encoding of 0x0040. Its IBM1047 encoding is 0x7C. Its IBM1141 encoding is 0xB5. Prior to this fix, it the z/OS system's configured codepage were IBM1141, the '@' symbol could not be used in your JCL. The '@' had to be replaced with a section sign ('§') This would force the UTF8-to-IBM1047 translation to produce an encoding of 0xB5, which allowed UAG Server to find the variables in the JCL and replace them with the values of the task's parameters. With this change, you can now set the CODE_PAGE option in UAGCFG00 to IBM1141 and use the '@' symbol in your JCL (assuming your z/OS system's codepage is IBM1141). The work-around described above is no longer needed. This is true for any of the codepages listed above, provided the configured CODE_PAGE in UAGCFG00 matches the codepage set for your z/OS environment. If you choose to leave such work-arounds in place, simply make sure the UAG Server's CODE_PAGE option in UAGCFG00 is undefined or set to IBM1047. If all of the variables in your z/OS task's JCL start with '@' and are translated correctly today (that is, without any work-arounds), then you do not need to do anything after applying this fix. Everything will continue to work as it does today.

Release 7.6.0.13 - June 10, 2025

Change Id	Platform	Component	Description
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.

Release 7.6.0.12 - May 13, 2025

Change Id	Platform	Component	Description
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.

Release 7.6.0.11 - April 8, 2025

Change Id	Platform	Component	Description
D-01220	All	UBROKER	Ensure that the function responsible for removing records from the Universal Event Subsystem (UES) database processes always processes 1000 records with each iteration. Previously, the function always deleted the first 1000 records, causing the removal of subsequent records to be delayed.
D-13120	Windows	UDM UDMSRV	Fix broken UTF-8 support in UDM for Windows 2016 and below.
D-13141	z/OS	UDM UDMSRV	Provides a new z/OS-specific UDM script attribute "lbi" to enable or disable the Large Block Interface (LBI) for transfers to prevent the corruption of datasets with RECFM=U. Previously, LBI support was enabled for all transfers, but this caused records shorter than the dataset's block size to be padded with 0x0 characters, which corrupted the output dataset. This change disables LBI by default, and makes it possible to re-enable it with lbi=yes.
D-13177	Unix Windows	USAP	Fixes an issue that caused USAP XBP 2.0 API calls to fail when the MAX_XBP configuration option was set to 2.0 and only XBP 2.0 was available on the SAP system.
D-12259	z/OS	UECTLR	Provide OpenSSL 1.1.1w, previously delivered for other components in the UA 7.6.0.1 maintenance release.

Release 7.6.0.10 - March 11, 2025

Change ID	Platforms	Component	Description
D-11743	z/OS	UAGSRV	Update the UAGRERUN utility to improve detection of changes to base GDG names and to relative and absolute GDG dataset names. This change should fix an issue where UAG may not request confirmation of JCL changes as expected.
D-13043	z/OS	UAGSRV	Ensure that a z/OS Agent Change File Monitor task correctly detects file (or dataset) creation on a Secondary agent when "Trigger on Create" is set in the file monitor task.
D-13209	z/OS	UDM UDMSRV	Fixes a problem that prevented UDM from correctly obtaining allocation attributes for an input GDG dataset specified using a relative name (i.e., with the generation number in parentheses). That information is now available as the default allocation attributes for the target dataset.

Release 7.6.0.9 - February 11, 2025

Change ID	Platforms	Component	Description
D-12474	All	USAP	Fixed an issue where EXTERNAL_STEP or EXTERNAL_COMMAND statements were not allowed to come directly after a temporary variant content statement in a USAP job definition file.
D-13128	Unix (except HP-UX) Windows	UEXT	Eliminates the "Exception while exporting metrics..." message that appears in a Universal Extension task's stderr when OTEL_EXPORT_METRICS is disabled. By design, no metrics should be exported when OTEL_EXPORT_METRICS is set to NO.

Release 7.6.0.8 - January 14, 2025

Change ID	Platforms	Component	Description
D-06689	z/OS	UAGSRV	Fixes a situation in which UAG Server could incorrectly interpret instream packed binary data passed via SYSIN to an executing program, causing a z/OS task to fail.
D-09345	z/OS	UDM UDMSRV	Improve detection and resolution of conflicts between source and target dataset's dsorg and dsntype allocation attributes. Specifically fixes a problem where specifying DSORG=PS with no other attributes is not sufficient to copy a PDS member to a sequential dataset.

Release 7.6.0.7 - December 10, 2024

Change ID	Platforms	Component	Description
D-12351	z/OS	UCMSRV	Provide a fix to guarantee unique EMCS names within a sysplex. Note The fix to UCMSRV is provided via UCMSPCST, whose version is updated to 7.6.0.7 for this delivery.
D-12863	z/OS	UAGSRV	Ensure that JCL errors encountered when a z/OS task is rerun do not allow the task to finish with a status of SUCCESS.
D-13034	Unix (except HP-UX) Windows	UEXT	Ensure that binaries bundled with an extension (using the zip_safe=false option) retain the necessary execute permissions when unbundled by the Agent.
D-13056	Windows	UAGSRV	Fixes a regression introduced in Universal Agent 7.5.0.0, which causes Windows task execution to fail if the "Interact with Desktop" is selected from the task form.

Release 7.6.0.6 - November 12, 2024

Change ID	Platforms	Component	Description
D-11405	z/OS	USAP	Fixes the situation in which a job name longer than 14 characters may result in an error message stating that the variant "exceeds maximum allowed size of 14 bytes".
D-12841	z/OS	UDM UDMSRV	Allow multiple sessions to be created from a single UDM script when SystemSSL is used.
D-12826	All	UAGSRV	Fixes a situation in which UAG Server may not receive OMS messages, causing submitted tasks to stay in a Queued state, although the Universal Agent is still successfully sending heartbeat messages to the Controller.
D-12913	Unix Windows	UEXT	Fixes a situation in which a Universal Extension Task fails to reconnect to a Universal Agent following an Agent restart.
D-12938	Unix Windows	UAGSRV	Fixes a problem where an Agent File Monitor task fails to detect files larger than 20 GB when a minimum file size is specified.
D-12946	Unix Windows	OMSSRV	Fixes a problem in which force finishing an Agent task may result in subsequent tasks to stay in Queued state.

Release 7.6.0.5 - October 8, 2024

Change ID	Platforms	Component	Description
D-12265	Windows	INSTALL	Suppress all message boxes and dialogs when the user mode install is run in SILENT mode.
D-12303	Windows	UAGSRV	Fixes a problem that causes Agent File Monitors running on Windows to fail when user credentials contain Unicode characters.
D-12314	Unix Windows	UDM	Fixes a possible password exposure when a File Transfer Task using a UDM script echoes the`$(ops_primary_cred_pwd)`value when specified for an`exec`statement. Prior to the fix, the value was not scrubbed from the task output. This fix provides proper scrubbing for this value.
D-12576	z/OS	UAGSRV	Relax validation for UAG Server's AGENT_IP configuration option on z/OS to accept VIPA addresses.
D-12652	z/OS	UAGSRV	Do not require a value for the CA_CERTIFICATES configuration option when SystemSSL is used and the Agent requests OMS Server authentication.
D-12976	Unix Windows	USAP	Prevent a possible crash when executing the `DISPLAY selscreen` command with USAP.

Release 7.6.0.4 - September 10, 2024

Change ID	Platforms	Component	Description
D-11460	Unix Windows	UAGSRV	Improve Agent warm start behavior in low memory environments to allow more task statuses to be recovered and accurately reported.
D-12564	z/OS	UAGSRV	Fix the value reported for the MIN_SSL_PROTOCOL option in the UNVAUDIT report.
D-12633	Unix Windows	UBROKER	Manage `uems.db` growth by removing information for an event occurrence upon completion.
D-12659	Unix Windows	UAGSRV	Prevent an unnecessary UTF-8 conversion for UDM task output.
D-12864	Unix (except HP-UX) Windows	PYTHON	Update external modules (and their dependencies) provided by the Universal Agent Python distribution to address any CVEs reported for those modules. A list of external modules provided for Unix installations may be found here. A list of external modules provided for Windows installations may be found here.

Release 7.6.0.3 - July 9, 2024

Change ID Platforms Component Description

D-12638 z/OS UAGSRV When all steps selected for rerun FLUSH, ensure the task instance for that rerun ends with a Failed status.

D-12721

Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows

UEXT

Address reported CVEs by providing the following updates:

Update the Python modules installed to the ./uagsrv/uext/_3pp/public directory to the versions indicated:
- certifi == 2024.06.02
- charset_normalizer == 3.3.2
- googleapis_common_protos == 1.63.2
- idna == 3.7
- protobuf == 4.25.3
- requests == 2.32.3
- typing_extensions == 4.12.2
- urllib3 == 1.26.19
- wrapt == 1.16.0
- zipp == 3.19.2
Update the PyYAML Python module installed to the ./uagsrv/uext/_3pp/internal/yaml27 directory to 5.4.1
Update the PyYAML Python module installed to the ./uagsrv/uext/_3pp/internal/yaml39 directory to 5.4.1

Release 7.6.0.2 - June 11, 2024

Change ID	Platforms	Component	Description
D-11554	Unix (except HP-UX)	PYTHON	Exclude the nis module from the Universal Agent's Python distribution on Linux. The nis module is a thin wrapper around the NIS library, which is only available on Unix systems (not Linux). Attempts to import the nis module from a script that executes with the Universal Agent Python distribution on Linux will issue the following error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'nis'. The module will import successfully on AIX and Solaris with the following warning: <stdin>:1: DeprecationWarning: 'nis' is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.13
D-11867	Unix (except HP-UX) Windows	UAGSRV	Ensure that all temporary Universal Extension files are removed following cancellation of a Universal Extension task.
D-11929	z/OS	UAGSRV	Provide a new UAG Server configuration option, rerun_before_include, which is defined in `UAGCFG00`. This option controls whether a JCL INCLUDE statement should trigger the insertion of the UAGRERUN step. Valid values and their meaning are as follows: no -- a JCL INCLUDE statement will not trigger insertion of a UAGRERUN step. This is the default, which matches the behavior in previous versions. yes – a UAGRERUN step is inserted ahead of a JCL INCLUDE statement.
D-12020	All	UDM UDMSRV	Expands support for files whose names contain multibyte (i.e., Unicode) characters.
D-12505	z/OS	UAGSRV	Adds the following messages to provide better information when the UNVJSC cluster dataset is not found or fails to open: UAG5656 - Dataset jscds must be a VSAM cluster, where jscds is the name of the UNVJSC dataset UAG5657 - Dataset jscds could not be opened, where jscds is the name of the UNVJSC dataset
D-12543	z/OS	UAGRERUN	Ensures that unexpired archived datasets are deleted by UAGRERUN's cleanup logic.
D-12548	Unix (except HP-UX, Solaris) Windows	UAGSRV	Provides a change that causes UAG Server and OMS Server activity spans for PeopleSoft task instances to remain associated with the Universal Controller's parent trace grouping.
D-12570	Unix Windows	UAGSRV USAP	Expands support for multi-byte (i.e., Unicode) values specified in SAP tasks. This change ensures that Unicode values in job definition scripts or SAP task definitions are correctly passed to and received from the SAP system.

Release 7.6.0.1 - May 14, 2024

Change ID	Platforms	Component	Description
D-11270	z/OS	UAGSRV	Provide message UAG5656E Dataset <dsname> specified for <jcl_save_library> cannot be found to make UAG Server start failures that occur due to missing JCL_SAVE_LIBRARY datasets more clear.
D-12506	z/OS	UAGRERUN	Improve error messaging when UAGRERUN executes on a system that does not have UAG Server. For example, when z/OS Workload Manager routes a job to a non-Agent system within a Sysplex, include a clear description of the error and the system on which UAGRERUN ran.
D-12559	All (except HP-UX)	OMSSRV UAGSRV UBROKER UCERT UCMD UCMSRV UCTL UCTSRV UDM UDMSRV UEM UFTP	Update the OpenSSL library that Universal Agent uses to OpenSSL 1.1.1w.
E-02039	All	All	Miscellaneous fixes to improve Universal Agent stability and reliability.

Release 7.6.0.0 - April 3, 2024

Change ID	Platforms	Component	Description
B-09236	z/OS	UAGSRV	Enhance options used to override a CA-7 Schedule ID with the following changes: Support lists and ranges of Schedule IDs with the #JI statement (e.g., #JI,ID=(1,3,5-8,12)). Accept #XI, #XO, and #XEND statements as synonyms for the #JI, #JO, and #JEND statements already supported by UAG Server
B-15814	z/OS	UAGSRV UAGUTIL	Provides a local data store that holds job history that can be used manually rerun jobs originally executed by UAG Server. Note that any job rerun in this manner is not monitored or tracked by the z/OS Universal Agent or Universal Controller. This feature adds the UAG Server configuration options HISTORY_DATASET and HISTORY_RETENTION. A new installation job, UNVIN12, is provided to create and configure this new feature. See the UAGRERUN Stand Alone Execution section in the Universal Agent User Guide for complete details.
B-15867	Windows	INSTALL	Sign all Universal Agent binaries and packages with a digital signing certificate. To view Certificate information, view the installed file's properties from Windows Explorer and select the Digital Signatures tab.
B-16966	z/OS	UBROKER	Provides a change that causes the Universal Broker on z/OS to mount the UNVSPOOL file system with the zFS RWSHARE option to prevent sharing violations in a Sysplex configuration.
B-16983	Unix (except HP-UX) Windows	UAGSRV UEXT	Add the ability to resolve the following Controller functions when embedded in text and array fields of a Universal Extension: Credential functions Script functions SAP Connection functions Database Connection functions Task Instance/Sibling Task Instance Output Path Variable Path functions Note This is a companion item to the Universal Controller enhancement B-16984.
B-17011	Unix Windows	UDM UDMSRV	Introduces the following UDM variables that provide access to the following Utility Agent credential and hostname information: $(ops_utility_cred_user) $(ops_utility_cred_pwd) $(ops_utility_agent_name)
B-17038	Solaris Intel Solaris SPARC	INSTALL	Drop support for Solaris 10. Starting with Universal Agent 7.6.0.0, installs are only permitted on Solaris 11. The install will be allowed to continue on any Solaris 11 system, but only Solaris 11.4 is certified. Critical Information This is a breaking change for upgrades from Universal Agent versions prior to 7.6.0.0. If you are running an OMS Server on a Solaris Intel system and attempt to upgrade to 7.6.0.0 or later, the OMS message file can no longer be read. The reason is that Universal Agent versions prior to 7.6.0.0 were 32-bit on Solaris Intel. Starting with 7.6.0.0, Solaris Intel deliveries are 64-bit. If Universal Agent 7.6.0.0 or later attempts to read an OMS message file created by an earlier 32-bit Universal Agent, the OMS Server will crash. For the best upgrade experience and to minimize any unexpected downtime, please refer to this section. Upgrades on Solaris SPARC are not affected.
B-17111	IBM i	INSTALL	Certify the IBMi Universal Agent 5.1.1 for IBM i 7.5.
B-17780	z/OS	UAGSRV UAGRERUN	Add support for z/OS tasks whose JCL contains a `JES2 /*ROUTE PRINT` statement, to ensure proper output processing. Prior to this change, output could be routed to another system before UAG Server had a chance to process it. When UAG Server encounters this statement, it will use its JES_SYSOUT_CLASS configuration parameter to manage output processing and routing.
B-17883	All	INSTALL	Add PGP signatures to Universal Agent distribution files. For information on verifying these signatures, please refer to the following information.
B-17891	Unix (except HP-UX and Solaris) Windows	UAGSRV UBROKER UFTP	Add end-to-end OpenTelemetry tracing support to UFTP when run from a File Transfer or Remote File Monitor task. Tracing support is also available for stand-alone UFTP execution.
B-17927	z/OS	UAGSRV UAGRERUN	Provides support for the `JCL RD` keyword on the `JOB` and `EXEC` statements. When RD=NR or RD=NC is specified, the Agent will mark the affected step is marked as non-restartable. To disable this behavior, use the new UAGRERUN parameter NORDNR. To disable this behavior for all z/OS tasks, use the new RERUN_OPTIONS option in the UAG Server configuration member, UAGCFG00.
B-17935	Unix (except HP-UX) Windows	PYTHON	Update the Universal Agent's Python distribution to 3.11.6. The 3pp modules listed below were updated for this distribution. The module is provided for all platforms, except where noted: azure-storage-blob==12.19.1 boto3==1.34.62 cx_Oracle==8.3.0 (Windows only) docker==7.0.0 google-cloud-storage==2.15.0 hdbcli==2.19.21 (Windows only) hdfs==2.7.3 (Linux and Windows only) kubernetes==29.0.0 (Linux and Windows only) paramiko==3.4.0 pyodbc==5.1.0 (Linux Intel and Windows only) requests==2.31.0
B-18417	z/OS	UAGRERUN	Update UAGRERUN behavior so that it deletes datasets prior to a run or rerun of a job, including those datasets whose expiration date has not passed. Prior to this change, unexpired datasets were not deleted by UAGRERUN's dataset cleanup processing.
B-18578	All	OMS UAGSRV	Update the Agent to rely on a dynamically-generated key to decrypt sensitive information obtained from the Controller. Note This change deprecates the Universal Agent's AUTHVER configuration option. The option, if configured, will still be recognized by UAG Server, but will no longer be honored.
B-18723	z/OS	UAGUTIL	Provides an optional installation job, UNVIN14, that can be used to assist Agent configuration. This new job will automatically generate the `EXIT ADD` statements that should be added to a `SYS1.PARMLIB` PROGxx member to ensure SMF exits used by the Agent are configured correctly. UNVINV14 uses the `SYS1.PARMLIB` SMFPRMxx as input and generates a list of missing exit point definitions and/or SMF record types.
B-18730	Unix (except HP-UX) Windows	UAGSRV UEXT	Provides a change to the Universal Extension Event API to support arrays (Python `list`) as attribute values.
D-10536	z/OS	UAGSRV	When the Universal Agent AGENT_IP configuration option specifies an IP address instead of a host name, eliminate the UNV0182E 'Cannot resolve' error, and accept the IP address as entered.
D-11139	Unix (except HP-UX) Windows	UAGSRV	The extensions directory, located in the DATA_DIRECTORY path option for UAG Server, will now be created automatically when a non-default value is set for this option. Prior to this change, Universal Task instances would stay in an Undeliverable status until directory was created.
D-11383	All	UAGSRV	Fixes a UAG Server crash that may occur when multiple Remote File Monitor instances finish at the same moment as a new instance is starting.
D-11431	z/OS	UAGSRV	Always insert the UAGRERUN step ahead of any `IF` statements in the JCL. This will ensure that UAGRERUN is executed ahead of any initial `EXEC` or `PROC` statement that may be enclosed within an `IF` statement.
D-11526	Windows	UIP-VSCODE	Fixes a problem where a debugging session will not start if the Debug button in the "Run and Debug" section of the activity bar is selected. Prior to this change, the only way to start a debugging session was with F5.
D-11555	Unix Windows	USAP	Resolves a performance issue when downloading a large SAP spool file.
D-11862	Windows	UIP-VSCODE	Fixes a problem where a user specifies a dynamic choice field in the `configuration.yml` file that does not exist, and there are no dependent fields specified in the `template.json` file. In this situation, the debugger fails to launch, and the error message KeyError: 'raw_type' is displayed.
D-11889	All	OMSSRV UAGSRV UBROKER UCMSRV UCTSRV UDMSRV UEMSRV	Changes the message digest used to sign internally-created self-signed certificates from SHA1 to SHA256 to prevent UC-OMS connection failures on newer Linux distributions
D-11900	Unix	UAGSRV	Ensure that failed attempts to launch child processes spawned by UAG Server (via the `./ubroker/sbin/cskern` utility) are handled gracefully.
D-11974	Unix Windows	UAGSRV	Fixes an issue where Program and Variant Names do not appear in their respective drop down lists when adding an ABAP Program Job Step to an SAP Task. The failure applies to Load Balancing (Type-B) connections only and results in a "Missing required Value for RFC Connection" error.
D-12221	z/OS	UAGSRV	Prevent a JCL error by ensuring that line numbers are not pulled into a JCL statement when The JCL used for a z/OS task contains line numbers, and A z/OS task variable is replaced with a value that is shorter than the variable name The fix also prevents truncation of JCL statements that contain in-line data with hexadecimal values.
D-12222	z/OS	UAGRERUN UAGU84 UAGUSI	Resolves unexpected behavior for a z/OS task, under the following conditions: The z/OS task contains a Step Condition that is defined treat an ABEND as an expected result, by specifying an action of Continue/Success A subsequent step in the z/OS task's JCL contains an EXEC COND= parameter that references the ABENDed step, that would normally prevent execution of the step Prior to this fix, the EXEC COND= parameter is not honored when the ABEND occurs, and the step executes. This fix ensures the Step Condition and the EXEC COND= configuration is honored.
D-12223	Windows	UAGSRV	Adds the Windows network error ERROR_UNEXP_NET_ERR (59) as a retry-able error condition for a Windows File Monitor task, when file monitor fault tolerance is enabled.
D-12323	Unix (except HP-UX)	PYTHON	Delivers a fix within the updated Python distribution that ensures the built-in _ssl and _hashlib modules are imported correctly.
D-12338	Unix (except HP-UX) Windows	UEXT	Fixes Universal Extension support for Python's async functionality that was provided in Python 3.9. Full async functionality is supported in Normal task execution Dynamic commands, and Dynamic choice commands.

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