All Platforms Package Maintenance Levels - Agent 7.3.x

All Platforms Package Maintenance Levels - Agent 7.3.x

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 ID

Platforms

Component

Description

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 7.3.0.11 - July 9, 2024

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

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 ID

Platforms

Component

Description

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

D-12020

All

UDM
UDMSRV

Expands support for files whose names contain multibyte (i.e., Unicode) characters.

Agent 7.3.0.9 - May 14, 2024

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

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-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 7.3.0.8 - April 9, 2024

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

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-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.

Release 7.3.0.7 - March 12, 2024

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

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-12304

z/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

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-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.

Release 7.3.0.5 - January 9, 2024

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

D-11555

Unix
Windows

USAP

Resolves a performance issue when downloading a large SAP spool file.

Release 7.3.0.4 - December 12, 2023

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

D-11353

All

UFTP
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-11189

All

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-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

Release 7.3.0.3 - October 31, 2023

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

D-11115

Unix (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-11160

Unix
Windows

OMSSRV

Fix a memory leak that can occur in OMS Servers that communicate with a UAG Server via a proxy server connection.

D-11174

All

UCMD
UCTL
UEM
UFTP
UPPS
USAP

Prevent an error when the value of the -pwd option contains a single space (e.g., -pwd " ").

D-11342

Unix
Windows

UAGSRV

Ensures that any temporary files created by Universal Extension tasks are properly removed following completion of UAG Server warm start processing.

D-11403

Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows

UEXT

Fixes 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-11411

z/OS

UCMD
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-11458

All

UAGSRV

Fixes a problem where UAG Server memory's consumption may gradually increase following repeated, forced reconnections to OMS Server.

D-11478

Unix

UAGSRV

Fixes 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

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

D-11137

Windows

UAGSRV

Restore the ability for Windows file monitor tasks to correctly interpret file paths that contain a double backslash (i.e., \\).

D-11156

Unix

UAGSRV

Ensure 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

UFTP

Fixes an issue that causes UFTP to fail when multiple files are transferred to a remote directory path that contains spaces.

D-11178

Unix

UAGSRV

Fixes 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-11335

Windows

UAGSRV

Fixes 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-11413

zOS

UDM
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-11424

zOS

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

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

D-09964

Unix

UAGSRV

Ensure 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-10316

Unix (except Solaris Intel)
Windows

USAP

Fix 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-10510

z/OS

UDM
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-10727