Overview
This page identifies the changes made in all Universal Agent 7.1.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 7.1.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 7.1.0.0 - September 30, 2021
Change ID | Platforms | Component | Description |
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B-10691 | All | UAGSRV | Add explicit FTPS (FTPES) support to UFTP. Enables transfers using TLS/SSL over connection to standard FTP port 21, provided the FTP server supports it. To request TLS/SSL from a Remote File Transfer or Remote File Monitor task, select the FTP protocol and prepend ftpes:// to the FTP server host name or IP address (e.g., ftpes://somehost). If the FTP server has enabled TLS/SSL support, the connection will proceed using encrypted communication. If TLS/SSL support is NOT enabled, a plain text session/transfer is done. The UFTP ENABLE_SSL configuration option (default:no) is provided to always request a TLS/SSL session, eliminating the need to specify the ftpes:// prefix. The UFTP AUTHENTICATE_PEER configuration option (default: no) is provided to control FTP server certificate authentication. When set to “yes”, the UFTP CA_CERTIFICATES configuration option must specify a CA certificate that can authenticate the FTP server’s certificate. |
B-12809 | All | USAP | Update USAP to support the RSPARAMSL_255 data type for variants. The following USAP operations may now take advantage of this change:
These changes are supported for XBP 2.0 and XBP 3.0, but full 255-character support ultimately depends on the SAP function module implementation. Note For the most consistent RSPARAMSL_255 support, Stonebranch recommends using SAP NW RFC library version 7.5.x and XBP 3.0 (controlled via the USAP XBP_MAX configuration option). |
B-13282 | z/OS | UAGSRV | Add automatic failover support for Agents configured to execute in a sysplex environment. The following items were delivered for UA 7.1.0.0 to support this feature:
Note To ensure proper accounting for z/OS licenses, we recommend that all UAG Servers configured to run in a sysplex environment use the same value for the UAG Server’s NETNAME configuration option. |
B-13316 | Unix (except HP-UX) | UFTP | Update SSH Key Exchange and Cipher support for SFTP transfers. Provides better compatibility with default OpenSSH configurations, by making the following changes to supported key exchange methods: Added:
Removed:
The diffie-helman-group-exchange-sha256 key exchange method was left unchanged. Support for the following ciphers was added:
Support for the following ciphers was left unchanged:
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B-13768 | Unix | UAGSRV | Improve response and performance when several file monitor tasks that check file stability run concurrently. |
B-13819 | Unix | UEXT | Provide the UAGSRV EXTENSION_PYTHON_LIST configuration option to extend the list of locations searched for Python instances that may be used by Universal Extension tasks. Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
B-13820 | Unix | UAGSRV | Allow the following Universal Extension config options to be set at install time or via Broker startup:
Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
B-13821 | Unix | UEXT | Update the values supported via the requires_python declaration of a Universal Extension implementation as follows:
Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
B-13822 | Windows | UEXT | Allow usermode installs to discover the Python distribution provided by a system mode-installed Agent. Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
B-13831 | Unix | UEXT | Provide the ability for Universal Extensions to detect and respond to Cancel commands issued from Universal Controller. Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
B-13846 | Unix | UEXT | Allow Universal Extension tasks to accept authentication tokens (e.g., used for Web or cloud-based service authentication) from a Universal Controller resolvable credential object. Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
B-13860 | Unix | UEXT | Refactor the Universal Extension logging API so that it is no longer necessary to instantiate an ExtensionLogger object. Logging methods can now be accessed using the following import: from universal_extension import logger Logging methods can be invoked using calls like logger.info(‘msg’) or logger.error(‘msg’). Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
B-13885 | z/OS | UBROKER | Suppress ICH408I messages in the RACF log when running the Broker with a user without BPX.SUPERUSER access. This message is an expected response to a check of authority level, but repeated checks result in several instances of the ICH408I message appear in the log. |
B-13908 | Unix | UEXT | Add the ability to execute Dynamic Commands within a Universal Extension task without launching a separate process (i.e., support “in-process” Dynamic Command execution). Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
B-13931 | Unix | UC | OMS Java Client - Add support of service timeout TBD: Is this included in UC maintenance list? |
B-13989 | Windows | UEXT | Provide a new utility to assist with Universal Extension development that provides a command line interface to Universal Extension task APIs offered by Universal Controller. Please see the Universal Extension development documentation for information on this new “uip” utility. Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
B-13991 | Windows | UEXT | Create a VisualStudio Code plugin to interact with the new uip command line utility delivered by B-13991. Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
B-14049 | Unix | UAGSRV UEXT | Ensure that any instances of a password exposed by a Universal Extension task are scrubbed from the UAG Server cache files. |
B-14255 | Windows | UEXT | Extend the uip utility delivered by B-13989 with an init command that can be used to initialize a working directory (e.g., a local Git repository) for Universal Extension development. Please see the Universal Extension development documentation for information on the new “uip” utility. Note The HP-UX and z/OS agents do not provide the Universal Extension. |
D-07313 | Unix | UAGSRV | Improve message handling and separation to prevent possible message loss. |
D-08997 | z/OS | UDM | Prevent a S0C4 when executing transfers of UTF16-encoded datasets. |
D-09666 | Windows | UAGSRV | Fixes a problem when the -uagstdio option is specified for additional UCMD Options and one or more of that option’s values contains double quotes that must be preserved. |
D-09852 | Unix | UDM | Ensure that the message that shows the result of the CD command displays correctly. This issue was most visible on zOS, but could occur on any Linux/Unix system whose default locale is not UTF8. |
D-10171 | Windows | UAGSRV | Prevent the agent.log from being inherited by tasks spawned by the Agent. This fixes a problem that caused the agent.log’s scheduled rollover at midnight to fail if Agent tasks were running. |
D-10189 | z/OS | PKG | Fix a problem that prevented the installation of hlq.SUNVSAMP(UBRDBSPZ). |
D-10210 | All | UDM | Scrubs any password specified with the OPEN statement from trace file output. |
D-10256 | All | UDM | Fixes a crash that could occur if the UDM Manager message level was set to “trace” from the command line. |
D-10346 | z/OS | UAGSRV
| Fixes a problem that prevented a zOS CHANGE File Monitor task from storing a renamed dataset’s new name in Universal Control variables. |
D-10371 | Unix | OMSSRV | Prevents re-delivery of OMS messages following automatic recovery executed against a corrupted, truncated data file. |
D-10415 | Windows | UAGSRV | Fixes an issue introduced in UA 7.0.0.0 that caused incorrect translation of UTF8 characters in Windows scripts. |
D-10426 | z/OS | UBROKER | Fixes a problem that prevented UBROKER startup while loading the UNVACTRT SMF exit. |
D-10435 | Windows | UCMD | Issue a configuration error when the DES-CBC-SHA cipher is specified from a Windows component. This cipher was deprecated in a previous release and since then, Agent server components would fail to negotiate a session with a manager component that only requested the DES-CBC-SHA cipher. However, the value itself should have been flagged during configuration processing and not presented to the server. |
D-10470 | Linux PPC | All | Prevent a crash during OpenSSL random number generation seeding observed on RHEL8 on a PowerPC system. |
D-10474 | z/OS | UCMD
| Prevent a situation in which command line parameters provided via a SYSIN statement were ignored if they followed a password on the same line. For example, given the following:
The -level option would be ignored unless moved to a separate line: |