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Universal Agent 6.4.x Maintenance - 6.4.0.1
All Platforms Package Maintenance Levels - Agent 6.4.x - 6.4.0.1
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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 6.4.0.1 - July 28, 2017
Change ID |
Platform |
Component |
Description |
|
---|---|---|---|---|
D-08710 |
UNIX, |
UFTP |
Fix issue that prevents SFTP connection when key exchange is negotiated down to Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange with SHA1. |
|
D-08733 |
UNIX, |
UFTP |
Fix issue that may prevent an SFTP file monitor task from correctly recognizing an existing file. |
Release 6.4.0.0 - July 19, 2017
Change ID |
Platform |
Component |
Description |
---|---|---|---|
B-02384 |
AIX, Linux x64 |
UDM |
Add ability to authenticate Broker's certificate. |
B-02897 |
z/OS |
All |
Add support for mixed case passwords. |
B-03348 |
All |
USAP |
Add ability to export SAP Factory and Holiday calendars. |
B-05351 |
All |
UFTP |
A new Universal FTP client component is available that executes for FTP file monitor and FTP file transfer tasks submitted from the Controller. |
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 |
All |
OMSSRV, |
Add support for TLS 1.2 protocol |
B-05925 |
HP-UX Itanium, |
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 |
HP-UX Itanium, |
UBROKER, |
Add support for TLS 1.2 protocol. |
B-05928 |
All |
All |
Universal Broker Keystore feature that allows a default key to be stored for Universal Encrypted command files. |
B-05983 |
All |
USAP |
Add new configuration option, ENABLE_JOB_STATUS_CHECK, to enable/disable calls to BAPI_XBP_JOB_STATUS_CHECK. |
B-05990 |
HP-UX Itanium, |
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-06027 |
All |
UENCRYPT |
Add ""legacy"" option to -aes parameter to generate encrypted command files compatible with pre-6.3.0.1 versions of Universal Encrypt. |
B-06115 |
z/OS |
UBROKER |
Issue a clear error message at startup if the UNV load library is not APF authorized instead of failing with an S047 ABEND. |
B-06165 |
UNIX |
OMS |
Increase the maximum number of allowable TCP/IP connections. |
B-06176 |
z/OS |
UBROKER, |
Enable TLS 1.2 protocol and cipher support for SystemSSL. |
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-06720 |
AIX |
All |
Port Universal Agent to 64-bit for AIX. |
B-06721 |
Solaris SPARC |
All |
Port Universal Agent to 64-bit for Solaris SPARC. |
B-06854 |
All |
OMS, |
Add msg_suppression_list option to filter unwanted messages (e.g., UNV0193W, which warns of deprecated SSL ciphers). |
B-06882 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV |
Check which UAGSRV SMF exits are loaded at startup and report any that are not loaded. |
B-06895 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV, |
Re-enable support for accessing SWA control blocks above the line on z/OS 2.2 or higher. |
B-06909 |
z/OS |
UBROKER |
Update the APPL=UAG,STATUS MODIFY command to display version information instead of build dates for UAGSRV SMF exits. |
B-06931 |
Windows |
Install |
Remove support for Windows XP, Server 2003, and Server 2008. Only allow installs on Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 and higher. |
B-06934 |
z/OS |
Install |
Provide a z/OS distribution file in .zip file format. |
B-06956 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV |
Extend timeouts for acquiring exclusive access to the JSC dataset ENQUEUE. |
B-06959 |
z/OS |
Install |
Update packaging to simplify distribution file uploads and handling. |
B-06974 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV |
Extend timeouts for JME creation when launching a z/OS task. |
B-06979 |
Unix, Windows |
UAGSRV |
Provide Universal Agent support for executing scripts stored as data objects in the Controller. |
B-07046 |
z/OS |
UBROKER |
Add shared_mount_point and shared_mount_point_mode configuration options to support shared UNV databases in sysplex environment. |
B-07243 |
All |
UDM, |
Enhance the RDW attribute to process files on non-z/OS systems that contain a 4-byte Record Descriptor Word (RDW) at the start of each record. |
B-07310 |
Windows |
UAGSRV, |
Re-introduce support to execute GUI applications when the Interact with Destkop option is enabled in task definitions, component configurations, and the Universal Broker service definition. |
D-04333 |
AIX, |
USAP |
Prevent XBP 3.0 Create Variant operation failure when SAP note 1144882 has been applied to system. |
D-05829 |
Unix |
Install |
Make sure usermode installs set correct installation paths in configuration files. |
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-06381 |
AIX, Linux x64 |
UAGCMD |
Generate unique names for trace files. |
D-06387 |
All |
UAGSRV |
Clean up temporary script files created by SAP tasks. |
D-06405 |
AIX, Linux x64 |
UAGSRV |
Allow concurrent File Monitor instances to search for files using regular expressions that contain a comma. |
D-06413 |
AIX, Linux x64 |
UBROKER |
Prevent Broker crash when it receives a specially-crafted malformed header. |
D-06413 |
All |
UBROKER |
Protect initial handshake message protocol from malicious payloads. |
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-06448 |
Windows |
UAGSRV |
DELETE File Monitors succeed when file's owner does not match the value of the task's File Owner field. |
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. |
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-06664 |
z/OS |
UBROKER, |
Get default label from key ring if no value is specified for saf_key_ring_label when using System SSL. |
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-06760 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV |
Reduce CPU utilization. |
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-06830 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV, |
Fail task if all steps FLUSH on rerun because of a JCL COND=(0,NE) statement. |
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-06877 |
z/OS |
UAGUJI |
Change wait for JSC ENQUEUE to 15 seconds to avoid possible resource contention when mulitple agents are running. |
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-06937 |
Unix |
UAGSRV |
Filter out directory entries when executing an EXIST or a MISSING file monitor task with a pattern of ""."" on HPUX and Solaris agents. |
D-06944 |
Unix, Windows |
UAGSRV |
Encrypt sensitive data that is stored in the *_job jobtrack cache files. |
D-06946 |
Unix |
UAGSRV |
Prevent possible UAGSRV crash when executing scripts via Linux/Unix tasks when data scrubbing is enabled. |
D-06964 |
All |
UAGSRV |
Masking of sensitive values (i.e., resolved variables replaced with ****) may prevent stdout or stderr from being returned to the Controller. |
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-07008 |
Unix, Windows |
UAGSRV |
Don't include directories as part of results when executing file monitor tasks with regular expressions. |
D-07046 |
Unix, Windows |
OMS |
A 6.3 OMS Server may reject session negotiation attempts from the Controller. |
D-07098 |
All |
UAGSRV |
A Universal Agent task that executes a script which calls the ${_credentialPwd()} function may fail. |
D-07107 |
All |
UDM, |
Connection to pre-6.3 UDM Server fails if connection was already made to a 6.3 UDM Server earlier in the same script. |
D-07130 |
Unix |
Install |
Make case conversion of character strings more portable in install script. |
D-07135 |
Unix |
Install |
Make function implementation more portable. |
D-07136 |
z/OS |
UDM, |
UDM fails to create UTF16-encoded dataset on z/OS. |
D-07144 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV |
Make sure an EXISTS file monitor task executed on a z/OS agent updates the status description correctly. |
D-07158 |
Unix |
Install |
Prevent values specified for UserName and GroupName command line arguments from being overridden in script. |
D-07164 |
z/OS |
UDM, |
UDM reports 0 (zero) files transferred when a move attempted within a loop succeeds upon retry of a failure. |
D-07176 |
All |
UAGSRV |
Make sure the agent returns content from the end of available output when issuing an output retrieval request from the Controller starting at line -1. |
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-07239 |
Unix, Windows |
UAGSRV |
Correct memory leaks that may occur during heavy file monitor activity. |
D-07243 |
Unix |
UAGSRV |
Prevent PAM authentication error in file monitor tasks when agent is installed as root. |
D-07244 |
All |
UDM |
Ensure that UDM does not write duplicate data to output file following successful NFT recovery. |
D-07248 |
Unix |
UAGSRV |
CHANGE file monitors may not detect new files that are created after the task started. |
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-07268 |
AIX |
UBROKER |
The runtime value the Broker uses for its running_max configuration option may be reset to a negative value, based on OS file descriptor limits. This fix prevents that from occurring. |
D-07275 |
AIX |
USAP |
Prevent attempts to allocate zero bytes of memory to prevent "Resource temporarily unavailable" failure. |
D-07288 |
Unix |
UAGSRV |
Execute Universal Command, UDM file transfer, and USAP tasks correctly even when application isn't in system path. |
D-07316 |
Unix, Windows |
UAGSRV |
File monitor tasks that contain an improperly coded regular expression do not notify the user of the error. |
D-07317 |
Unix |
Install |
Fix a problem in unvinst script that could prevent it from stopping an active ubrokerd process. |
D-07333 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV, |
Fix a problem that prevents steps that require subsequent steps from being skipped upon restart. |
D-07340 |
Unix, Windows |
UAGSRV |
Report consistent return codes for file monitor tasks that fail with invalid regular expressions on Unix and Windows agents. |
D-07376 |
Unix, Windows |
USAP |
Display SELECT command will fail if the selusername option is used. |
D-07380 |
Unix |
UDM, |
UDM may crash on AIX during execution of a File Transfer task. |
D-07410 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV |
An EXISTS/MISSING file monitor task does not end with a non-zero exit code upon failure. |
D-07428 |
Unix, Windows |
UPPS |
Some commands may cause UPPS to crash. |
D-07429 |
Windows |
All |
Trace files may not contain trace messages generated after the initial bootstrap configuration is merged. |
D-07430 |
All |
USAP |
After SAP update EHP7, USAP may receive "Invalid Document" error while attempting to retrive spooled output. |
D-07433 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV |
JCL errors may not be detected in steps that execute after a step condition prevents a task from failing upon an ABEND. |
D-07440 |
Unix |
UAGSRV |
Make exit codes for CHANGE file monitor tasks executed on Unix agents consistent with those reported by Windows agents. |
D-07483 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV |
Add support for mount point names longer than 47 characters. |
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-07508 |
All |
UAGSRV |
Display correct values for System Monitor task responses. |
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 z/OS 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-07518 |
Windows |
UAGSRV, |
Make sure that tasks executing with the "Requires Highest Privileges" (UAGSRV) or -elevate_user_token (UCMD) option successfully acquire elevated token on Windows Server 2012R2 and later. |
D-07520 |
Unix |
UAGSRV |
Fix stability checks for CREATE file monitor tasks. |
D-07538 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV |
Fix a problem in which a NOT CATLGD 2 on a GDG dataset may not cause a task to fail. |
D-07541 |
Windows |
Install |
Silent installs fail when BROKERUID is set to domain account. |
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-07579 |
Windows |
Install |
Prevent display of UBROKERPASSWORD value in install log. |
D-07586 |
All |
UAGSRV |
Accept the Cancel command from Controller when executing File Transfer tasks. |
D-07588 |
z/OS |
UAGSRV, |
Steps with DD statements which reference other DD statements in the same step are not marked as restartable in the Controller. |
D-07614 |
All |
UAGSRV |
Correct the agent start time reported in the Controller. |
D-08705 |
z/OS |
Install |
Update jobs for upgrades to 6.4 from 4.x and 5.x. Provide new jobs to upgrade from 6.2 and 6.3 to 6.4. |
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