Overview
This page identifies the changes made in all Universal Agent 6.4.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 6.4.x packages, such as Universal Command Agent for SOA 6.4.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 6.4.0.0 - July 19, 2017
Change ID |
Platform |
Component |
Description |
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B-02384 |
AIX, Linux x64 |
UDM |
Add ability to authenticate Broker's certificate. |
B-05691 |
AIX, Linux x64 |
USAP |
Provide improved client fault tolerance for SAP process chains. |
B-05922 |
AIX, Linux x64 |
UBROKER |
Turn off world-readable flag for application configuration and log files. |
B-05923 |
AIX, Linux x64 |
UENCRYPT |
Create new files using defaults of AES256 encryption and an expanded 32-bit key. |
B-05924 |
UNIX, |
OMSSRV |
Add support for TLS 1.2 protocol |
B-05925 |
AIX, Linux x64 |
UBROKER |
Add support for TLS 1.2 ciphers, AES256-GCM-SHA384 and AES128-GCM-SHA256. |
B-05926 |
AIX, Linux x64 |
UDM |
Protect against interception of sensitive information during user authentication. |
B-05927 |
AIX, Linux x64 |
UBROKER |
Add support for TLS 1.2 protocol. |
B-05983 |
All |
USAP |
Add new configuration option, ENABLE_JOB_STATUS_CHECK, to enable/disable calls to BAPI_XBP_JOB_STATUS_CHECK. |
B-05990 |
AIX, Linux x64 |
UBROKER |
Add MIN_SSL_PROTOCOL configuration option to manage TLS application protocol support. |
B-06012 |
AIX, Linux x64 |
USAP |
Provide ability to release intercepted child jobs. |
B-06165 |
UNIX |
OMS |
Increase the maximum number of allowable TCP/IP connections. |
B-06252 |
All |
UDM |
Update UDM Manager DATA_COMPRESSION configuration option with new force parameter (that is, compress,force) to allow UDM Managers to override Server-configured compression. |
B-06258 |
z/OS |
UDM, |
Add support for ASA control character conversion/formatting. |
B-06491 |
All |
UDM |
Add milliseconds value to built-in variables for access, create, and modify file timestamps. |
B-06501 |
All |
UAGSRV |
Add support for new resolvable script Credential Functions: ${_credentialUser(‘<credential-name>’)} and ${_credentialPwd(‘<credential-name>’)}. |
B-06956 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV |
Extend timeouts for acquiring exclusive access to the JSC dataset ENQUEUE. |
B-06974 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV |
Extend timeouts for JME creation when launching a z/OS task. |
D-04333 |
AIX, |
USAP |
Prevent XBP 3.0 Create Variant operation failure when SAP note 1144882 has been applied to system. |
D-05850 |
UNIX |
UAGSRV |
Allow SFTP server port to be overridden when password-based authentication is used with SFTP File Transfer tasks. |
D-06380 |
UNIX |
UDM |
Display correct version information for UDM Server. |
D-06387 |
All |
UAGSRV |
Clean up temporary script files created by SAP tasks. |
D-06413 |
UBROKER |
AIX, Linux x64 |
Prevent Broker crash when it receives a specially-crafted malformed header. |
D-06413 |
All |
UBROKER |
Protect initial handshake message protocol from malicious payloads. |
D-06448 |
Windows |
UAGSRV |
DELETE File Monitors succeed when file's owner does not match the value of the task's File Owner field. |
D-06467 |
UNIX |
UAGSRV |
Make sure all error information is reported for an EXISTS File Monitor task that fails because the path name specified in the task Details does not exist. |
D-06558 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV |
Fix error that prevents return of job output to original MSGCLASS when the UAG JES_SYSOUT_DISP configuration option value is RELEASE,*. |
D-06591 |
All |
UDM |
Add a message to display the value of the DATA_COMPRESSION configuration option following UDM Manager/Server session negotiation. |
D-06606 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV |
Ensure that JCL statements are padded with blanks instead of NULLs. |
D-06720 |
z/OS |
UAGUJI, |
Prevent possible abend when encountering SWA control blocks that reside above the bar. |
D-06726 |
Windows |
UAGSRV |
Prevent a situation that may result in a "CSProcessCreate: The system cannot find the file specified" error when several Windows tasks that execute scripts with user credentials are launched at once. |
D-06728 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV |
Prevent possible S0C4 in UAGSRV function WjssLocalJmeDelete(). |
D-06729 |
All |
UDM, |
Set error return code when the length of a file’s records exceeds a z/OS datasets’s allocated record length. |
D-06736 |
All |
UDM |
Correct problem trimming spaces from very long records. |
D-06745 |
All |
UDM, |
Fix conversion error that may occur when creating a session using UTF-8 or UTF-16 codepages. |
D-06748 |
All |
UBROKER |
Improve authentication of message parameters sent during a session negotiation’s handshake. |
D-06780 |
All |
UDM |
Make sure memory allocation errors that occur when a large ACK_WINDOW value is used when NFT is disabled are reported prior to UDM failure. |
D-06835 |
AIX, |
USAP |
Handle FAILED exception from RSPC_API_CHAIN_GET_PROCESSES function. |
D-06864 |
UNIX, |
UAGSRV |
File Monitor tasks that end with a Failed status do not always end with non-zero exit codes. |
D-06865 |
Windows |
Install |
Mask passwords displayed by Stonebranch trace functions in install log. |
D-06887 |
UNIX (except AIX |
USAP |
Handle RFC timeouts during calls to RSPC_API_CHAIN_GET_STATUS. |
D-06892 |
All |
USAP |
Use Universal Connector GROUP configuration option instead of mshost value for RFC GROUP connection parameter. |
D-06908 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV |
Make sure jobs that end with S822 are reported correctly to Universal Controller. |
D-06919 |
z/OS |
UDM |
Do not fail conversion of an FBA dataset that starts with an ASA form feed character. |
D-06999 |
z/OS |
UAGUJI |
Do not retain catalog information for new GDGs and other sequential datasets that did not get created in a job's initial run. |
D-07136 |
All |
UDM |
Ensure that UDM does not write duplicate data to output file following successful NFT recovery. |
D-07136 |
z/OS |
UDM |
UDM fails to create UTF16-encoded dataset on z/OS. |
D-07193 |
Windows |
UAGSRV |
File Monitors may go to Start Failure on AD Controller reboot/switchover. |
D-07200 |
UNIX |
UAGSRV |
Tasks with UACL fail with "CSProcessCreate failed: KrnProcessCreate" if the Agent is running as root. |
D-07221 |
z/OS |
UAGUJI |
Make sure SKIPST parameters specified for z/OS tasks correctly skip steps that execute PROCs. |
D-07259 |
z/OS |
UAGUJI |
Fix a problem that prevents steps containing a DD statement which specifies DSN=NULLFILE to be selected for restart. |
D-07497 |
z/OS |
UAGUJV |
Prevent a conflict with a customer SMF exit that references the same JMR control block locations as UAGSRV SMF exits. |
D-07509 |
All |
UDM, |
Fix a problem that could cause Universal Data Mover to prematurely stop reading a UTF16-encoded file. Note The problem was observed when trying to transfer a UTF-16BE file to a zOS dataset encoded with the IBM500 codepage. The cause of the problem was related to the size of the input file, and not to the UTF16 translation itself. |
D-07565 |
Windows |
Install |
Fix a problem that could cause a silent install to fail when RUNBROKERASUSER=0 is specified. The install incorrectly tried to authenticate the default credentials for a Broker service account whose password had been changed. The authentication failure was ignored for interactive installs, but caused silent installs for fail. |
D-06381 |
AIX, Linux x64 |
UAGCMD |
Generate unique names for trace files. |
D-06405 |
AIX, Linux x64 |
UAGSRV |
Allow concurrent File Monitor instances to search for files using regular expressions that contain a comma. |
D-06436 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV |
Prevent possible S0C4 during variable substitution. |
D-06439 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV |
Tasks may stay in Submitted state after failing with a JCL error. |
D-06442 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV |
Prevent jobnames that start with IEFC from falsely reporting a JCL error. |
D-06455 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV |
Fix behavior that allows the Job Submission Checkpoint (JSC) dataset to contain duplicate keys, resulting in z/OS tasks that stay in Submitted status. |
D-06460 |
Windows |
UAGSRV |
Add ERROR_NETNAME_DELETED as a retry condition for File Monitor fault tolerance. |