All Platforms Package Maintenance Levels - Agent 7.3.x

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Last updated: Sept 11, 2024
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Overview

This page identifies the changes made in all Universal Agent 7.3.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 7.3.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 7.3.0.12 - September 10, 2024

Change IDPlatformsComponentDescription
D-11460

Unix
Windows

UAGSRVImprove Agent warm start behavior in low memory environments to allow more task statuses to be recovered and accurately reported.
D-12564z/OSUAGSRVFix the value reported for the MIN_SSL_PROTOCOL option in the UNVAUDIT report.
D-12633Unix
Windows		UBROKERManage uems.db growth by removing information for an event occurrence upon completion.
D-12659Unix
Windows		UAGSRVPrevent an unnecessary UTF-8 conversion for UDM task output.
D-12864Unix (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 7.3.0.11 - July 9, 2024

Change IDPlatformsComponentDescription
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 7.3.0.10 - June 11, 2024

Change IDPlatformsComponentDescription
D-12020AllUDM
UDMSRV		Expands support for files whose names contain multibyte (i.e., Unicode) characters.

Agent 7.3.0.9 - May 14, 2024

Change IDPlatformsComponentDescription
D-11270z/OSUAGSRVProvide 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-12559All (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-02039AllAllMiscellaneous fixes to improve Universal Agent stability and reliability.

Release 7.3.0.8 - April 9, 2024

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

D-10536z/OSUAGSRV

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-12221z/OSUAGSRV

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.

Release 7.3.0.7 - March 12, 2024

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

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-12304z/OS

UAGSRV

Improves threading support for some OpenSSL functions to prevent UAG Server unexpected terminating with an exit code 8 or an 0C4 ABEND.

Release 7.3.0.6 - February 13, 2024

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

D-11676

Unix
Windows

UAGSRV

Fixes an intermittent issue where UAGSRV may terminate abnormally when stopped with the Universal Control utility (UCTL). The failure is not common, and was observed only when the UAG Server JTSK_NUM configuration option was set to its maximum value of 64.

D-12222z/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-12223WindowsUAGSRVAdds 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.

Release 7.3.0.5 - January 9, 2024

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

D-11555Unix
Windows		USAPResolves a performance issue when downloading a large SAP spool file.

Release 7.3.0.4 - December 12, 2023

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

D-11353AllUFTP
UPPS

Update the libcURL library used by Universal Agent components to 7.88.1 for Unix/Windows and 7.81.0 for zOS.

The libcURL library used for the Universal Agent for HP-UX distribution was not updated.



D-11189All

OMSSRV
UAGCMD
UAGSRV
UBROKER
UCMD
UCMSRV
UCERT
UCTL
UCTSRV
UDM
UDMSRV
UEM
UEMSRV
UFTP

Update the OpenSSL library used by Universal Agent components to 1.1.1u.

The OpenSSL library used for the Universal Agent for HP-UX distribution was not updated.

D-11889AllOMSSRV
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

Release 7.3.0.3 - October 31, 2023

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

D-11115Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows		UAGSRV
UEXT		Fixes a problem where the requires_python field of a Universal Extension fails to detect or select a suitable Python executable when comparison operators less than (<) or greater than (>) are used.
D-11160Unix
Windows		OMSSRVFix a memory leak that can occur in OMS Servers that communicate with a UAG Server via a proxy server connection.
D-11174All

UCMD
UCTL
UEM
UFTP
UPPS
USAP

Prevent an error when the value of the -pwd option contains a single space (e.g., -pwd " ").
D-11342Unix
Windows		UAGSRVEnsures that any temporary files created by Universal Extension tasks are properly removed following completion of UAG Server warm start processing.
D-11403Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows		UEXTFixes an issue which may cause a Universal Extension task to stay in a "Running" status if an exception is raised in the __init__ method.
D-11411z/OSUCMD
UCTL
UEM
UFTP
USAP		Fixes a problem introduced in UA 7.3.0.0 that prevents Universal Agent components from reading a plain-text command file specified with the -f / -file option in a job's SYSIN. 

D-11458AllUAGSRVFixes a problem where UAG Server memory's consumption may gradually increase following repeated, forced reconnections to OMS Server.
D-11478UnixUAGSRVFixes an issue that may cause messages intended for the ops_monitor process to be consumed by UAG Server and sent to a file transfer task, which could cause its failure.

Release 7.3.0.2 - July 31, 2023

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

D-11137WindowsUAGSRVRestore the ability for Windows file monitor tasks to correctly interpret file paths that contain a double backslash (i.e., \\).
D-11156UnixUAGSRVEnsure that all file descriptors are properly closed when a task fails because credentials were specified for a user account that does not exist.
D-11166

Unix
Windows

UFTPFixes an issue that causes UFTP to fail when multiple files are transferred to a remote directory path that contains spaces.
D-11178UnixUAGSRVFixes an issue that could result in excessive CPU consumption when UAG Server launches and/or executes several different task types concurrently.
D-11238

Unix
Windows

UFTP
UPPS		Update the libssh2 library used by Universal Agent components from 1.9.0 to 1.10.0.
D-11335WindowsUAGSRVFixes an issue that prevents successful completion of a Change file monitor instance when the file path contains double backslashes (i.e., \\) or a single forward slash (i.e., /). Prior to this fix, the task instance remains in a Running status.
D-11413zOSUDM
UDMSRV

Fixes a situation in which a UDM file transfer will fail if an attempt is made to allocate a zOS dataset with an EXPDT equal to one of the following special values:

  • 00000 - allocate the dataset with no expiration date

  • 98000 - used by some tape management systems control when datasets are uncataloged and tape volumes become available for re-use

  • 99000 - used by some tape management systems control when datasets are uncataloged and tape volumes become available for re-use

  • 99365 - allocate the dataset so that it never expires

  • 99366 - allocate the dataset so that it never expires

When none of the above 5-digit values are used, UDM will still expect a 7-digit expiration date as it did prior to this change.

D-11424zOS

UAGU83

Fixes a problem where an ABEND within the UAGU83 SMF exit module could cause RMF to terminate with an S0C1.

Release 7.3.0.1 - April 28, 2023

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

D-09964UnixUAGSRVEnsure that all file descriptors are closed when an attempt to execute an Agent File Monitor task using credentials for a non-existent user is specified.
D-10316Unix (except Solaris Intel)
Windows		USAPFix an issue that requires SAP credentials to be specified when using X.509 certificate authentication. It is now possible to execute USAP using only an X.509 certificate.
D-10510z/OSUDM
UDMSRV

Eliminate all "benign" ICH408I message occurrences from the RACF log. 

These messages would sometimes appear during UDM's processing, when checking for access to resources it required. UDM would silently ignore the situation that caused these messages, using an alternate execution path. This change will ensure that UDM takes no action that could result in these messages. 

D-10727z/OSUCMDFix an issue that prevented a z/OS UCMD Manager from performing a success network fault tolerant (NFT) recovery when SystemSSL was used.
D-10897Unix
Windows		UAGSRVFix a situation in which a create or change file monitor task using a stability check may fail to detect the creation of or change to intended files.
D-10910AllUBROKERFix a memory leak that, if left unchecked, could require frequent Universal Broker restarts.
D-10934AllUBROKERFix a memory leak that could occur within the Universal Broker Memory when responding to a UAG Server configuration refresh request
D-11003z/OSUAGSRVFix a situation in which a z/OS File Monitor task could be triggered more than once for the same dataset or file
D-11045WindowsUAGSRVFix a situation in which a Universal Extension task may stay in a Queued state on Windows if there are problems with the extension implementation.
D-11059z/OSUAGSRVFix a situation in which the step that executes the UAGRERUN utility is inserted into a z/OS task's JCL at an unexpected/unsupported location
D-11084

Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows

UAGSRV
UEXT		Fix a performance issue that may occur when a Universal Extension task's output is returned via EXTENTION OUTPUT. 
D-11108Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows		UAGSRV
UEXT

Correct the spelling of a credential's passphrase when referenced by a Universal Extension task. The previous spelling pasphrase is now corrected to passphrase.

For backward compatibility, pasphrase is still accepted, but new extensions should use the correct spelling as this backward compatibility could be lost in future releases.

D-11118AllUAGSRVFix a situation in which tasks could end with a Start Failure or say in a Queued status if the Agent's hostname is longer than 62 characters.
D-11188z/OSUFTPUpdate the version of libSSH2 used for UFTP from 1.7.0 to 1.10.0.
D-11198z/OSUAGSRVFix a situation in which a password might be exposed in the Universal Agent log.
D-11212

Unix
Windows

PythonUpdate the version of Python distributed with Universal Agent from 3.7.6 to 3.7.16.

Release 7.3.0.0 - October 3, 2022

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

B-02925z/OSUAGSRVAdd the ability to save the JCL of jobs submitted via a z/OS task. The JCL is saved to a user-allocated PDS/E (recommended) or PDS as specified by a new UAG Server configuration option, JCL_SAVE_LIBRARY.
B-06123z/OSUBROKERIncrease the region size specified in the sample UBROKER started task JCL (provided by the z/OS installation) from 50M to 500M.
B-10131z/OSUAGSRVAdds a SYSTEM or SYSAFF parameter to the job card for z/OS tasks that contain a value for the SYSTEM or SYSAFF Parameter field provided by Universal Controller item B-10132.
B-10268z/OSUAGSRVAdd the ability to set a timeout for obtaining z/OS task output from JES. The timeout value is specified with a new UAG Server configuration option, JES_SYSOUT_TIMEOUT. 
B-10380z/OSUAGSRVAdd the ability to specify space parameter for temporary output datasets created by a z/OS task instance. The parameters are set via a new UAG Server configuration option, JES_SYSOUT_SPACE.
B-10881

Linux
Windows

UPPSAdd ability to retry failed PeopleSoft web service calls using values specified by the new APPL_RETRY_MSG_IDS, APPL_RETRY_INTERVAL, and APPL_RETRY_COUNT configuration options.
B-11155AllUFTPAdd ability to prevent command line exposure of sensitive data by allowing UFTP to accept its command input via stdin.
B-13254AllUAGSRVAllows UAG Server to confirm its connection to OMS via a new a SERVICE_TIMEOUT configuration option. The value specified for this option can be used to allow UAG Server to quickly detect an idle connection to OMS without waiting for the default TCPIP timeout.
B-13901All (except Solaris Intel)USAPProvides a new configuration option, ALLOW_VARIANT_TRUNCTION, to control how USAP responds to variant names that exceed the variant's maximum defined length. The new option can be configured to have USAP fail (the default) or silently truncate the variant name.
B-13973

Unix
Windows

PKG

Provides the ability to set UAG Server's BUSINESS_SERVICES configuration option at install time.

For Unix installs, this is done using the unvinst script's new --ac_business_services command line option.

Windows installs provide the ability to set this option

  • via an install dialog
  • the AC_BUSINESS_SERVICES property (system mode installs)
  • the -ac_business_services command line option (user mode installs)

Note that the Agent is only joined to the specified business services upon initial registration with Universal Controller. Existing agents can only be assigned to business services from the Controller's Agent Details panel.

B-14072UnixUAGSRVAdds the PROCESS_CANCEL_TIMEOUT option to specify the amount of time a Universal Agent will allow between issuing a SIGTERM and a SIGKILL in response to a Cancel command from Universal Controller.
B-14552WindowsUEXTAdds code completion support for dynamic commands when @dynamic_command is typed from VisualStudio Code when using the Universal Extension development plugin.
B-14553WindowsUEXTAdds code completion support for dynamic choice commands when @dynamic_choice_command is typed from VisualStudio Code when using the Universal Extension development plugin.
B-14554WindowsUEXTAdds code completion for field names in methods when using the VisualStudio Code plugin for Universal Extension development.
B-14619All

UAGSRV
UAGCMD

Add the ability to connect to OMS Server via a proxy server.

A new UAG Server configuration option, PROXY_URL, is provided to configure this connection.

The UAG Server command line client, UAGCMD, provides a new network.proxy_url parameter to configure this connection.

B-14668AllUBROKER

If the Universal Broker enters its database recovery processing at startup (due to an improperly closed bcomponent.db database), a new RECREATE_DATABASES option is provided to specify whether the Broker should automatically delete and recreate the following databases:

  • bcomponent.db
  • scomponent.db
  • uems.db
  • ues.db
B-14703AllUFTPUpdate the LIST command to accept a comma-separated list of files.
B-14722WindowsUEXTAdd the uip clean command to the UIP-CLI utility to remove the build, dist, and temp directories that contain packages generated by the uip build and uip push commands.
B-14723WindowsUEXTAdd support for the uip clean command to the VisualStudio Code plugin for Universal Extension development.
B-14806
B-14807

Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows

OMSSRV
UAGSRV
UBROKER
UCMD
UCTL
UDM
UEM
UFTP

Upgrade the OpenSSL library used by Universal Agent and its components from OpenSSL 1.1.1b to OpenSSL 1.1.1n.
B-15595

Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows

UAGSRV
UEXT

When cancelling a Universal Extension task instance, ensure that values for the ExtensionResult() parameters listed below are properly reported to the Controller.

  • rc
  • message
  • unv_output
  • output_fields
B-15596WindowsAllCertify for Windows Server 2022.
B-15659

Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows

UAGSRV
UEXT

Make the properties set by the new SAP Connection field types (see Universal Controller item B-13199) accessible to Universal Extension tasks.

This backlog also provides code completion support for these new properties via the VisualStudio Code plugin for Universal Extension development. 

B-15670z/OSAllCertify for z/OS 2.5.
B-15808z/OSUAGRERUN

Improve support for stand-alone execution of the UAGRERUN utility.

Recent changes to the UAGRERUN utility have focused on integration with rerun/restart features provided by the Universal Controller. This backlog delivers enhancements needed to execute UAGRERUN outside of the Controller.

B-15809z/OSUAGRERUNEnhance UAGRERUN's support for GDG cleanup when executed outside of the Controller.
B-15813z/OSUAGRERUNGenerate a report to show the actual results and effects of GDG adjustments made by UAGRERUN.
B-15848WindowsUEXTAdd the ability to launch and debug Universal Extension tasks from the VisualStudio Code IDE without a connection to Universal Controller.
B-15876

Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows

UFTP
UPPS

Update the libcURL library used by Universal Agent components 7.54.0 to 7.83.1.
B-16718

Windows

UEXT

Ensure that the .zip file name generated for Universal Extension template is the same when created by UIP-CLI's uip build -a command and when exported from Universal Controller (see Controller item B-16719).

In both instances, the file name will be unv_tmplt_{Universal Template Name}-{Version from extension.yml}.zip, where

  • Universal Template Name is lower case and replaces any non-alphanumeric characters with underscores (_).
  • Version from extension.yml follows Semantic Versioning guidelines specified here.
D-05312UnixUBROKER

Remove world-writable permissions from the ./spool/reservedSpace file.


Note

This item was delivered with Universal Agent 7.2.0.1 as D-10849.

D-10544

All

UAGSRV

Prevent a CHANGE File Monitor that specifies a stable period from incorrectly generating multiple events.


Note

This item was delivered with Universal Agent 7.1.0.1 and Universal Agent 7.2.0.1 as D-10733 and D-10732, respectively.

D-10563WindowsUAGSRV

Ensure that Windows Powershell and batch scripts which reside in the Controller's script library and whose contents include UTF8 sequences are handled correctly by UAG Server.


Note

This item was delivered with Universal Agent 7.2.0.1 as D-10717.

D-10568

Unix
Windows

UAGSRV

Fix a problem where File Monitor tasks do not honor a specified stable period if there are multiple file monitor instances running with the same credentials.


Note

This item was delivered with Universal Agent 7.1.0.1 and Universal Agent 7.2.0.1 as D-10705 and D-10715, respectively.

D-10587

All

UAGSRV

Prevent a deadlock that may occur when a CHANGE File Monitor instance detects new matching files.


Note

This item was delivered with Universal Agent 7.1.0.1 and Universal Agent 7.2.0.1 as D-10707 and D-10716, respectively.

D-10614

Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows

UAGSRV

Fix a situation in which the Universal Controller may not be able to properly distinguish between an EXTENSION_ACCEPT_LIST value that is unchanged or changed to none when a Universal Agent's configuration is refreshed dynamically.

See Universal Controller item B-14025 for related changes.

D-10690

Unix 
Windows

UPPS
USAP

Eliminate duplicate message IDs between USAP and UPPS message catalogs.


Message ID Changes

This change was necessary to ensure messages issued by the UPPS and USAP components could be uniquely identified. 

Stonebranch makes every effort to avoid changing message IDs unless absolutely necessary, to ensure that any enterprise automation tools that trigger notifications or processing based on the Agent's message IDs is not broken.

A complete accounting of all the message IDs affected by this change can be found in the Universal Agent Messages and Codes section.

D-10726z/OS

UCMD
UCTL
UEM
UFTP

Fix a problem in which passwords that contain spaces are not parsed correctly.

D-10730

Unix (except Solaris Intel)
Windows

USAP

Prevent a failure when a model job uses a jobname of exactly 32 characters in length.


Note

This item was delivered with Universal Agent 7.1.0.1 and Universal Agent 7.2.0.1 as D-10828 and D-10827, respectively.



D-10742

Unix (except Solaris Intel)
Windows
z/OS

USAP

Prevent a failure for the Display Event History command when the timestamp exceeds 8 characters.


Note

This item was delivered with Universal Agent 7.1.0.1 and Universal Agent 7.2.0.1 as D-10795 and D-10796, respectively.

D-10783WindowsUAGSRV

Prevent a situation in which the value of the UAG Server EXTENSION_PYTHON_LIST option may contain unprintable characters when written to the Agent log file.


Note

This item was delivered with Universal Agent 7.2.0.1 as D-10852.

D-10806WindowsUAGSRVFix a problem in which Universal Extension tasks executing following a UAG Server warm start on Windows may result in high CPU usage.
D-10916

Unix
Windows

UAGSRVResolve a memory leak observed when executing a tasks from UAG Server.
D-10918Unix (AIX, Linux Ubuntu, Linux PPC, Linux s390x)PythonUpdate the Universal Agent Python distributions to provide the built-in _sqlite3 Python module.
D-10942

Unix
Windows

UAGSRV

Prevent a situation in which several concurrent UCMD, UDM, or USAP tasks will fail with the following error:  Error in caller provided UUID

D-10985WindowsUAGSRVFix a problem in which Universal Extension tasks may fail with a Start Failure if UAG Server has been active for 30 days or more.