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All Platforms Package Maintenance Levels - Agent 7.6.x

This page identifies the changes made in all Universal Agent 7.6.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 7.6.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.

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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 7.6.1.2 - March 10, 2026

Change Id

Platform

Component

Description

D-11005

z/OS

UAGSRV

Fix truncation of a message responsible for reporting secondary Universal Agent status to the Controller. The truncation could cause the Agent to show Active even if it were actually offline.

D-14191

Unix
Windows
z/OS

UAGSRV

Fix a possible memory corruption when an application monitored by an Application Control Task is stopped immediately after the application is started.

D-14197

Unix
Windows
z/OS

UFTP

Update the libSSH2 3pp vendor library used by UFTP to remediate Critical- and High-severity CVEs.

D-14409

z/OS

UAGSRV (UAGRERUN)

Fixes a problem where the JCL for a z/OS task containing a backward reference to a DD statement in the same step prevented that step from being marked "Restartable" in the z/OS task instance. Steps that contain local backward references should be restartable. Steps that contain backward references to other steps in the job will continue to be non-restartable.

Release 7.6.1.1 - February 10, 2026

Change Id

Platform

Component

Description

D-13552

Unix
Windows

UAGSRV

Ensures that an Agent's configured BUSINESS_SERVICES are part of any HELLO message the Agent sends to the Controller.

This change was specifically intended to fix an issue where a transient Linux Agent would lose business service information after temporarily going offline.

A persistent Agent on any platform would also benefit from this change if, for example, it were inadvertently deleted from the Controller.

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No Universal Agent 7.6.1 maintenance delivery was made for the January 13, 2026 release.

Release 7.6.1.0 - December 9, 2025

Change Id

Platform

Component

Description

B-18732

Unix (except Solaris)
Windows

OMSSRV
UAGSRV
UEXT
UFTP

Explicitly set and expose the OpenTelemetry schema URL used for traces and metrics exposed by the Universal Agent and Universal Extension tasks.

Providing the schema URL with each trace message or metric provides information about the format of the data being exported and details the semantic conventions used by the OpenTelemetry library 3pp vendor library.

B-22163

Unix (except Solaris)
Windows

OMSSRV
UAGSRV
UFTP

Add support to export traces and metrics in protobuf binary format. Provides the new OTEL_HTTP_TRACE_PROTOCOL and OTEL_HTTP_METRICS_PROTOCOL configuration options to switch between JSON and binary (the default) encoding.

info

This item was first delivered in the UA 7.9.0.0 release.

For the December 2025 maintenance releases, the default encoding for all supported Agent versions (incl., 7.6.1, 7.7.2, and 7.8.3) was changed from JSON to protobuf binary.

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Universal Extension tasks using OpenTelemetry features now require Python 3.8 or higher.

D-14051

All

UAGSRV

Fixes an issue where the UAG Server's configured SERVICE_TIMEOUT value is ignored when receiving messages from OMS. This fix will decrease the time it takes for UAG Server to detect a dropped connection with OMS, which will in turn decrease connection recovery times.

Release 7.6.0.17 - November 11, 2025

Change Id

Platform

Component

Description

D-09802

Unix
Windows

UBROKER

When the path to a Universal Broker's .ipc file - which is used to support the Universal Broker's component interface on Unix systems - is greater than 80 characters, its value inside the ubroker.bif file (see UBROKER_BIF) is truncated. This will cause Universal Broker startup to fail. This fix provides support for a file path up to 2000 characters (subject to system to system limits imposed by some platforms).

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There were code changes made for this defect that are shared between Unix and Windows implementations. However, the Universal Agent for Windows uses TCP/IP for the Universal Broker's component interface. This means that the values saved in the ubroker.bif file for Windows were not affected by this defect and will not change.

D-13947

z/OS

UAGSRV

Ensure that a z/OS task does not fail with a JCL error when the task's job issues an IEFC677I message. Prior to this change, it may be possible for the Agent to fail with a S0C4 ABEND or return accurate error information to the Universal Controller.

D-13958

z/OS

UAGSRV

Prior to the Universal Agent's attempt to calculate a system workload value, ensure that the sample size value in an SMF record type 70-1 (SMF70SAM) is non-zero. This check will prevent a divide-by-zero exception (S0C9).

Release 7.6.0.16 - October 14, 2025

Change Id

Platform

Component

Description

D-11976

Unix
Windows
z/OS

UDM
UDMSRV

Update the International Components for Unicode (ICU) 3pp vendor library to remediate Critical- and High-severity CVEs.

D-12045

Windows

UAGSRV
UCMD
UDM
UFTP

Update the Boost 3pp vendor library used for regular expression support on Windows to remediate Critical- and High-severity CVEs.

D-12235

Unix
Windows

UFTP
UPPS

Update the libcURL 3pp vendor library (used for UFTP file transfers and UPPS Web API calls) to remediate Critical- and High-severity CVEs.

D-12923

Unix
Windows

PYTHON

Update the Universal Agent Python distribution to 3.11.13 to remediate Critical- and High-severity CVEs.

D-13422

Unix
Windows

OMSSRV

Prevent unauthorized access to OMS Server by denying connection attempts from a remote OMS Admin (OMSADMIN) utility. This will restrict OMSADMIN to execution on the OMS Server's system.

D-13581

All

UAGSRV

Fixes an issue the prevented UAG Server from retrying all items in the configured OMS_SERVERS list following a lost connection.

D-13664

Unix
Windows

UAGSRV

Prevents a possible UAG Server crash when an Agent File Monitor task is launched with a variable with no value is specified for the file to be monitored.

Change Id

Platform

Component

Description

D-12045

Windows

UAGSRV
UCMD
UDM
UFTP

Update the Boost 3pp vendor library used for regular expression support on Windows to remediate Critical- and High-severity CVEs.

D-12235

*nix
Windows

UFTP
UPPS

Update the libcURL 3pp vendor library (used for UFTP file transfers and UPPS Web API calls) to remediate Critical- and High-severity CVEs.

D-13664

Unix
Windows

UAGSRV

Prevents a possible UAG Server crash when an Agent File Monitor task is launched with a variable with no value is specified for the file to be monitored.

Release 7.6.0.15 - August 12, 2025

Change Id

Platform

Component

Description

D-10535

Unix

UAGSRV

Prevents an Agent File Monitor task failure when the specified file contains trailing whitespace that is not a space (e.g., a newline control character, '\n').

D-12560

Unix
Windows
z/OS

UFTP

Update the libSSH2 3pp vendor library used by UFTP to remediate Critical- and High-severity CVEs.

D-13077

Unix
Windows
z/OS

UFTP

Fixes an issue for transfers to or from an IBM i FTP Server, where UFTP attempts to issue LIB file system commands for a location outside the Library file system.

D-13550

Unix (except HP-UX, Solaris)
Windows

UEXT

Update the setuptools and certifi Python modules provided for Universal Extension development and installed to ./universal/uagsrv/uext. These updates will remediate Critical- and High-severity CVEs.

D-13676

z/OS

UAGSRV

Prevent an 0C4 abend that could occur in UAGSRV as it evaluates the memory allocated for some JCL SET parameters.

D-13707

Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows

PYTHON

Decrease the size of the Universal Agent's Python distribution in order to decrease the overall size of the Universal Agent distribution file.

Release 7.6.0.14 - July 8, 2025

Change Id

Platform

Component

Description

D-09780

Unix
Windows
z/OS

UBROKER

Prevents a Universal Broker crash following successful Manager Fault Tolerant (MFT) recovery of a UCMD Manager task. In this situation, recovery processing was successful. The crash occurred as the Broker cleaned up tracking records stored in its BerkeleyDB database files.

D-13549

Windows

UAGSRV

Fixes a problem in which the Universal Agent for Windows process could crash at startup during Universal Extension task initialization. Specifically, the issue occurred within the Agent's Python discovery processing.

D-13578

z/OS

UAGSRV

Ensure that the UAG Server's configured CODE_PAGE is honored during OMS message processing.

Specifically, this fix addresses a problem with z/OS Task parameter translation when the z/OS system environment is configured to use a codepage other than IBM1047 (UAG Server's default codepage). The problem applies to the following situation:

  • The z/OS Task defines one or more task parameters
  • UAG Server uses the parameter(s) to construct a SET statement for insertion into the task's JCL
  • A parameter's name or value contains a character whose IBM1047 encoding is different from the encoding used by the z/OS system's configured codepage (e.g., IBM1141)

Prior to this fix, the parameter's name and value would always be translated from UTF8 to IBM1047, even if the UAG Server's configured codepage were set to something other than IBM1047.

With this fix, UAG Server will now honor its configured codepage and translate the parameter name and value accordingly. The default is still IBM1047.

Note that a similar defect, D-13592, is provided for this release that fixes translation of parameters used for JCL variable substitution. These are parameters whose names start with *@.

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Exercise care before doing the SMP/E ACCEPT of this PTF. If any work-arounds exist that rely on a task parameter's name or value always being translated as IBM1047, they will no longer work if the CODE_PAGE option is set in UAGCFG00 to something other than IBM1047.

For example, the at symbol ('@') has a UTF8 encoding of 0x0040. Its IBM1047 encoding is 0x7C. Its IBM1141 encoding is 0xB5. Prior to this fix, it the z/OS system's configured codepage were IBM1141, the '@' symbol in a task parameter name or value had to be replaced with a section sign ('§'). This would force the UTF8-to-IBM1047 translation to produce an encoding of 0xB5. When viewing the SET statement that UAG Server adds to the task's JCL, the value would be shown as '@' as expected.

With this change, you can now set the CODE_PAGE option in UAGCFG00 to IBM1141 and use the '@' symbol in the task parameter. The work-around described above is no longer needed.

If you choose to leave such work-arounds in place, simply make sure the UAG Server's CODE_PAGE option in UAGCFG00 is undefined or set to IBM1047.

If all of your task parameter names and values are inserted into the JCL's SET statements correctly today (that is, without any work-arounds), then you do not need to do anything after applying this fix. Everything will continue to work as it does today.

D-13589

Unix (Solaris only)

INSTALL

Fixes a problem with Universal Agent upgrades on Solaris that could cause Universal Extension tasks to fail. The failures only occur if the Universal Extension API changed between your installed version and the upgraded version. The fix provided in this maintenance will ensure that existing Universal Extension tasks execute successfully following the upgrade.

D-13592

z/OS

UAGSRV

Ensure that the UAG Server's configured CODE_PAGE is honored during OMS message processing.

Specifically, this fix addresses a problem with z/OS Task parameter translation when the z/OS system environment is configured to use a codepage other than IBM1047 (UAG Server's default codepage). The problem applies to the following situation:

  • The z/OS Task defines one or more task parameters that start with *@
  • UAG Server uses these parameters to perform variable substitution in the z/OS task's JCL
  • The z/OS environment is configured to use a codepage that uses an EBCDIC encoding for the '@' symbol that is not the same as IBM1047 (0x7C). Of the codepages provided by the Universal Agent install, the following use a different encoding for the '@' symbol:
    • IBM1141, IBM1144, IBM273, IBM280 (0xB5)
    • IBM1142, IBM277 (0x80)
    • IBM1143, IBM278 (0xEC)
    • IMB1147 (0x44)

If your z/OS system's codepage is configured with one of the above codepages, this fix will provide the ability to retain the '@' symbol in the task parameter definition and your z/OS task's JCL.

Prior to this fix, the parameter would always be translated from UTF8 to IBM1047, even if the UAG Server's configured codepage were set to something other than IBM1047.

With this fix, UAG Server will now honor its configured codepage and translate the '@' symbol correctly. The default is still IBM1047.

Note that a similar defect, D-13578, is provided for this release that fixes translation of parameters used for JCL SET statements.

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Exercise care before doing the SMP/E ACCEPT of this PTF. If any work-arounds exist in your JCL to replace the '@' variable with a symbol that will match the IBM1047 encoding for '@' AND the CODE_PAGE option is set in your UAGCFG00 to something other than IBM1047, the work-around will no longer work.

For example, the at symbol ('@') has a UTF8 encoding of 0x0040. Its IBM1047 encoding is 0x7C. Its IBM1141 encoding is 0xB5. Prior to this fix, it the z/OS system's configured codepage were IBM1141, the '@' symbol could not be used in your JCL. The '@' had to be replaced with a section sign ('§') This would force the UTF8-to-IBM1047 translation to produce an encoding of 0xB5, which allowed UAG Server to find the variables in the JCL and replace them with the values of the task's parameters.

With this change, you can now set the CODE_PAGE option in UAGCFG00 to IBM1141 and use the '@' symbol in your JCL (assuming your z/OS system's codepage is IBM1141). The work-around described above is no longer needed. This is true for any of the codepages listed above, provided the configured CODE_PAGE in UAGCFG00 matches the codepage set for your z/OS environment.

If you choose to leave such work-arounds in place, simply make sure the UAG Server's CODE_PAGE option in UAGCFG00 is undefined or set to IBM1047.

If all of the variables in your z/OS task's JCL start with '@' and are translated correctly today (that is, without any work-arounds), then you do not need to do anything after applying this fix. Everything will continue to work as it does today.

Release 7.6.0.13 - June 10, 2025

Change Id

Platform

Component

Description

D-12968

Windows

UAGSRV

Fixes a memory leak observed when running several Agent File Monitor tasks over an extended period of time.

D-13463

Unix
Windows

UAGSRV

Fixes a problem where a Universal Extension Task that defines a field with a percent sign (%) in its value may be misinterpreted by UAG Server, causing it to crash.

Release 7.6.0.12 - May 13, 2025

Change Id

Platform

Component

Description

D-11317

Unix

UAGSRV

Improves trace file messaging for an Agent File Monitor task that executes on a Linux/Unix Agent. Messages are now consistent with those written for Agent File Monitor tasks that execute on Windows Agents.

D-12016

Unix
Windows
z/OS

UCMD
UCMSRV
UDM
UDMSRV
UFTP

Library dependencies updated due to vulnerabilities.

D-12785

All

All

Improve data security by making sure all references to sensitive data are cleared before the memory holding that data is freed.

Note that no memory was leaked nor was any sensitive data exposed prior to this change. This change applies to the way in which the Universal Agent applications are built. Some compilers may "skip" a call to clear memory in situations where that that memory is immediately freed in the next statement. This is an undesirable optimization, and this change prevents the call to clear the memory from being skipped.

D-12805

Unix

UEM
UEMSRV

Fixes a problem where UEM tries to monitor a symbolic link on a Linux system that resides in a world-writeable directory.

D-13270

All

UAGSRV

Fixes a problem where a Universal Broker started with the command line option -dest stderr failed to honor the UAGLOGLVL environment variable.

D-13397

Unix (Linux Intel only)

INSTALL

A Universal Agent install or upgrade on Linux Intel (the RPM or Debian package) would replace file permissions for the /etc/universal/uai_log4jConfiguration.xml file, which is used by the Universal Agent for SOA. This change preserves that file's permissions.

This issue only affects users of the Universal Agent for SOA product.

D-13418

Unix

UDM
UDMSRV

Add support for the rdw session attribute for UDM sessions that execute on Linux/Unix.

This change allows users to inform UDM that a file transferred from Linux/Unix to z/OS contains RDW that can either be discarded or retained on a transfer to z/OS. This attribute was previously available on Windows and z/OS only.

Release 7.6.0.11 - April 8, 2025

Change Id

Platform

Component

Description

D-01220

All

UBROKER

Ensure that the function responsible for removing records from the Universal Event Subsystem (UES) database processes always processes 1000 records with each iteration. Previously, the function always deleted the first 1000 records, causing the removal of subsequent records to be delayed.

D-13120

Windows

UDM
UDMSRV

Fix broken UTF-8 support in UDM for Windows 2016 and below.

D-13141

z/OS

UDM
UDMSRV

Provides a new z/OS-specific UDM script attribute "lbi" to enable or disable the Large Block Interface (LBI) for transfers to prevent the corruption of datasets with RECFM=U.

Previously, LBI support was enabled for all transfers, but this caused records shorter than the dataset's block size to be padded with 0x0 characters, which corrupted the output dataset. This change disables LBI by default, and makes it possible to re-enable it with lbi=yes.

D-13177

Unix
Windows

USAP

Fixes an issue that caused USAP XBP 2.0 API calls to fail when the MAX_XBP configuration option was set to 2.0 and only XBP 2.0 was available on the SAP system.

D-12259

z/OS

UECTLR

Provide OpenSSL 1.1.1w, previously delivered for other components in the UA 7.6.0.1 maintenance release.

Release 7.6.0.10 - March 11, 2025

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

D-11743

z/OS

UAGSRV

Update the UAGRERUN utility to improve detection of changes to base GDG names and to relative and absolute GDG dataset names. This change should fix an issue where UAG may not request confirmation of JCL changes as expected.

D-13043

z/OS

UAGSRV

Ensure that a z/OS Agent Change File Monitor task correctly detects file (or dataset) creation on a Secondary agent when "Trigger on Create" is set in the file monitor task.

D-13209

z/OS

UDM
UDMSRV

Fixes a problem that prevented UDM from correctly obtaining allocation attributes for an input GDG dataset specified using a relative name (i.e., with the generation number in parentheses). That information is now available as the default allocation attributes for the target dataset.

Release 7.6.0.9 - February 11, 2025

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

D-12474

All

USAP

Fixed an issue where EXTERNAL_STEP or EXTERNAL_COMMAND statements were not allowed to come directly after a temporary variant content statement in a USAP job definition file.

D-13128

Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows

UEXT

Eliminates the "Exception while exporting metrics..." message that appears in a Universal Extension task's stderr when OTEL_EXPORT_METRICS is disabled. By design, no metrics should be exported when OTEL_EXPORT_METRICS is set to NO.

Release 7.6.0.8 - January 14, 2025

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

D-06689

z/OS

UAGSRV

Fixes a situation in which UAG Server could incorrectly interpret instream packed binary data passed via SYSIN to an executing program, causing a z/OS task to fail.

D-09345

z/OS

UDM
UDMSRV

Improve detection and resolution of conflicts between source and target dataset'sdsorganddsntypeallocation attributes.

Specifically fixes a problem where specifying DSORG=PS with no other attributes is not sufficient to copy a PDS member to a sequential dataset.

Release 7.6.0.7 - December 10, 2024

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

D-12351

z/OS

UCMSRV

Provide a fix to guarantee unique EMCS names within a sysplex.

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The fix to UCMSRV is provided via UCMSPCST, whose version is updated to 7.6.0.7 for this delivery.

D-12863

z/OS

UAGSRV

Ensure that JCL errors encountered when a z/OS task is rerun do not allow the task to finish with a status of SUCCESS.

D-13034

Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows

UEXT

Ensure that binaries bundled with an extension (using the zip_safe=false option) retain the necessary execute permissions when unbundled by the Agent.

D-13056

Windows

UAGSRV

Fixes a regression introduced in Universal Agent 7.5.0.0, which causes Windows task execution to fail if the "Interact with Desktop" is selected from the task form.

Release 7.6.0.6 - November 12, 2024

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

D-11405

z/OS

USAP

Fixes the situation in which a job name longer than 14 characters may result in an error message stating that the variant "exceeds maximum allowed size of 14 bytes".

D-12841

z/OS

UDM
UDMSRV

Allow multiple sessions to be created from a single UDM script when SystemSSL is used.

D-12826

All

UAGSRV

Fixes a situation in which UAG Server may not receive OMS messages, causing submitted tasks to stay in a Queued state, although the Universal Agent is still successfully sending heartbeat messages to the Controller.

D-12913

Unix
Windows

UEXT

Fixes a situation in which a Universal Extension Task fails to reconnect to a Universal Agent following an Agent restart.

D-12938

Unix
Windows

UAGSRV

Fixes a problem where an Agent File Monitor task fails to detect files larger than 20 GB when a minimum file size is specified.

D-12946

Unix
Windows

OMSSRV

Fixes a problem in which force finishing an Agent task may result in subsequent tasks to stay in Queued state.

Release 7.6.0.5 - October 8, 2024

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

D-12265

Windows

INSTALL

Suppress all message boxes and dialogs when the user mode install is run inSILENTmode.

D-12303

Windows

UAGSRV

Fixes a problem that causes Agent File Monitors running on Windows to fail when user credentials contain Unicode characters.

D-12314

Unix
Windows

UDM

Fixes a possible password exposure when a File Transfer Task using a UDM script echoes the$(ops_primary_cred_pwd)value when specified for anexecstatement. Prior to the fix, the value was not scrubbed from the task output. This fix provides proper scrubbing for this value.

D-12576

z/OS

UAGSRV

Relax validation for UAG Server'sAGENT_IPconfiguration option on z/OS to accept VIPA addresses.

D-12652

z/OS

UAGSRV

Do not require a value for theCA_CERTIFICATESconfiguration option when SystemSSL is used and the Agent requests OMS Server authentication.

D-12976

Unix
Windows

USAP

Prevent a possible crash when executing theDISPLAY selscreencommand with USAP.

Release 7.6.0.4 - September 10, 2024

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 theMIN_SSL_PROTOCOLoption in the UNVAUDIT report.

D-12633

Unix
Windows

UBROKER

Manageuems.dbgrowth 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 foundhere.
  • A list of external modules provided for Windows installations may be foundhere.

Release 7.6.0.3 - July 9, 2024

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

D-12638

z/OS

UAGSRV

When all steps selected for rerun FLUSH, ensure the task instance for that rerun ends with a Failed status.

D-12721

Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows

UEXT

Address reported CVEs by providing the following updates:

  • Update the Python modules installed to the ./uagsrv/uext/_3pp/public directory to the versions indicated:
    • certifi == 2024.06.02
    • charset_normalizer == 3.3.2
    • googleapis_common_protos == 1.63.2
    • idna == 3.7
    • protobuf == 4.25.3
    • requests == 2.32.3
    • typing_extensions == 4.12.2
    • urllib3 == 1.26.19
    • wrapt == 1.16.0
    • zipp == 3.19.2
  • Update the PyYAML Python module installed to the ./uagsrv/uext/_3pp/internal/yaml27directory to 5.4.1
  • Update the PyYAML Python module installed to the ./uagsrv/uext/_3pp/internal/yaml39directory to 5.4.1

Release 7.6.0.2 - June 11, 2024

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

D-11554

Unix (except HP-UX)

PYTHON

Exclude the nis module from the Universal Agent's Python distribution on Linux.

The nis module is a thin wrapper around the NIS library, which is only available on Unix systems (not Linux).

Attempts to import the nis module from a script that executes with the Universal Agent Python distribution on Linux will issue the following error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'nis'.

The module will import successfully on AIX and Solaris with the following warning: <stdin>:1: DeprecationWarning: 'nis' is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.13

D-11867

Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows

UAGSRV

Ensure that all temporary Universal Extension files are removed following cancellation of a Universal Extension task.

D-11929

z/OS

UAGSRV

Provide a new UAG Server configuration option, rerun_before_include, which is defined in UAGCFG00. This option controls whether a JCL INCLUDE statement should trigger the insertion of the UAGRERUN step.

Valid values and their meaning are as follows:

  • no -- a JCL INCLUDE statement will not trigger insertion of a UAGRERUN step. This is the default, which matches the behavior in previous versions.
  • yes - a UAGRERUN step is inserted ahead of a JCL INCLUDE statement.

D-12020

All

UDM
UDMSRV

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

D-12505

z/OS

UAGSRV

Adds the following messages to provide better information when the UNVJSC cluster dataset is not found or fails to open:

  • UAG5656 - Dataset jscds must be a VSAM cluster, where jscds is the name of the UNVJSC dataset
  • UAG5657 - Dataset jscds could not be opened, where jscds is the name of the UNVJSC dataset

D-12543

z/OS

UAGRERUN

Ensures that unexpired archived datasets are deleted by UAGRERUN's cleanup logic.

D-12548

Unix (except HP-UX, Solaris)
Windows

UAGSRV

Provides a change that causes UAG Server and OMS Server activity spans for PeopleSoft task instances to remain associated with the Universal Controller's parent trace grouping.

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 7.6.0.1 - May 14, 2024

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-12506

z/OS

UAGRERUN

Improve error messaging when UAGRERUN executes on a system that does not have UAG Server. For example, when z/OS Workload Manager routes a job to a non-Agent system within a Sysplex, include a clear description of the error and the system on which UAGRERUN ran.

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 7.6.0.0 - April 3, 2024

Change ID

Platforms

Component

Description

B-09236

z/OS

UAGSRV

Enhance options used to override a CA-7 Schedule ID with the following changes:

  • Support lists and ranges of Schedule IDs with the #JI statement (e.g., #JI,ID=(1,3,5-8,12)).
  • Accept #XI, #XO, and #XEND statements as synonyms for the #JI, #JO, and #JEND statements already supported by UAG Server

B-15814

z/OS

UAGSRV
UAGUTIL

Provides a local data store that holds job history that can be used manually rerun jobs originally executed by UAG Server.

Note that any job rerun in this manner is not monitored or tracked by the z/OS Universal Agent or Universal Controller.

This feature adds the UAG Server configuration options HISTORY_DATASET and HISTORY_RETENTION. A new installation job, UNVIN12, is provided to create and configure this new feature.

See the UAGRERUN Stand Alone Execution section in the Universal Agent User Guide for complete details.

B-15867

Windows

INSTALL

Sign all Universal Agent binaries and packages with a digital signing certificate.

To view Certificate information, view the installed file's properties from Windows Explorer and select the Digital Signatures tab.

B-16966

z/OS

UBROKER

Provides a change that causes the Universal Broker on z/OS to mount the UNVSPOOL file system with the zFS RWSHARE option to prevent sharing violations in a Sysplex configuration.

B-16983

Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows

UAGSRV
UEXT

Add the ability to resolve the following Controller functions when embedded in text and array fields of a Universal Extension:

  • Credential functions
  • Script functions
  • SAP Connection functions
  • Database Connection functions
  • Task Instance/Sibling Task Instance Output Path
  • Variable Path functions
tip

This is a companion item to the Universal Controller enhancement B-16984.

B-17011

Unix
Windows

UDM
UDMSRV

Introduces the following UDM variables that provide access to the following Utility Agent credential and hostname information:

  • $(ops_utility_cred_user)
  • $(ops_utility_cred_pwd)
  • $(ops_utility_agent_name)

B-17038

Solaris Intel
Solaris SPARC

INSTALL

Drop support for Solaris 10.

Starting with Universal Agent 7.6.0.0, installs are only permitted on Solaris 11. The install will be allowed to continue on any Solaris 11 system, but only Solaris 11.4 is certified.

info

This is a breaking change for upgrades from Universal Agent versions prior to 7.6.0.0.

If you are running an OMS Server on a Solaris Intel system and attempt to upgrade to 7.6.0.0 or later, the OMS message file can no longer be read.

The reason is that Universal Agent versions prior to 7.6.0.0 were 32-bit on Solaris Intel. Starting with 7.6.0.0, Solaris Intel deliveries are 64-bit. If Universal Agent 7.6.0.0 or later attempts to read an OMS message file created by an earlier 32-bit Universal Agent, the OMS Server will crash.

For the best upgrade experience and to minimize any unexpected downtime, please refer to this section.

Upgrades on Solaris SPARC are not affected.

B-17111

IBM i

INSTALL

Certify the IBMi Universal Agent 5.1.1 for IBM i 7.5.

B-17780

z/OS

UAGSRV
UAGRERUN

Add support for z/OS tasks whose JCL contains a JES2 /*ROUTE PRINT statement, to ensure proper output processing.

Prior to this change, output could be routed to another system before UAG Server had a chance to process it.

When UAG Server encounters this statement, it will use its JES_SYSOUT_CLASS configuration parameter to manage output processing and routing.

B-17883

All

INSTALL

Add PGP signatures to Universal Agent distribution files.

For information on verifying these signatures, please refer to the following information.

B-17891

Unix (except HP-UX and Solaris)
Windows

UAGSRV
UBROKER
UFTP

Add end-to-end OpenTelemetry tracing support to UFTP when run from a File Transfer or Remote File Monitor task. Tracing support is also available for stand-alone UFTP execution.

B-17927

z/OS

UAGSRV
UAGRERUN

Provides support for the JCL RD keyword on the JOB and EXEC statements. When RD=NR or RD=NC is specified, the Agent will mark the affected step is marked as non-restartable.

tip

To disable this behavior, use the new UAGRERUN parameter NORDNR.

To disable this behavior for all z/OS tasks, use the new RERUN_OPTIONS option in the UAG Server configuration member, UAGCFG00.

B-17935

Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows

PYTHON

Update the Universal Agent's Python distribution to 3.11.6.

tip

The 3pp modules listed below were updated for this distribution. The module is provided for all platforms, except where noted:

  • azure-storage-blob==12.19.1
  • boto3==1.34.62
  • cx_Oracle==8.3.0 (Windows only)
  • docker==7.0.0
  • google-cloud-storage==2.15.0
  • hdbcli==2.19.21 (Windows only)
  • hdfs==2.7.3 (Linux and Windows only)
  • kubernetes==29.0.0 (Linux and Windows only)
  • paramiko==3.4.0
  • pyodbc==5.1.0 (Linux Intel and Windows only)
  • requests==2.31.0

B-18417

z/OS

UAGRERUN

Update UAGRERUN behavior so that it deletes datasets prior to a run or rerun of a job, including those datasets whose expiration date has not passed.

Prior to this change, unexpired datasets were not deleted by UAGRERUN's dataset cleanup processing.

B-18578

All

OMS
UAGSRV

Update the Agent to rely on a dynamically-generated key to decrypt sensitive information obtained from the Controller.

tip

This change deprecates the Universal Agent's AUTHVER configuration option.

The option, if configured, will still be recognized by UAG Server, but will no longer be honored.

B-18723

z/OS

UAGUTIL

Provides an optional installation job, UNVIN14, that can be used to assist Agent configuration. This new job will automatically generate the EXIT ADD statements that should be added to a SYS1.PARMLIB PROGxx member to ensure SMF exits used by the Agent are configured correctly.

UNVINV14 uses the SYS1.PARMLIB SMFPRMxx as input and generates a list of missing exit point definitions and/or SMF record types.

B-18730

Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows

UAGSRV
UEXT

Provides a change to the Universal Extension Event API to support arrays (Python list) as attribute values.

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-11139

Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows

UAGSRV

The extensions directory, located in the DATA_DIRECTORY path option for UAG Server, will now be created automatically when a non-default value is set for this option.

Prior to this change, Universal Task instances would stay in an Undeliverable status until directory was created.

D-11383

All

UAGSRV

Fixes a UAG Server crash that may occur when multiple Remote File Monitor instances finish at the same moment as a new instance is starting.

D-11431

z/OS

UAGSRV

Always insert the UAGRERUN step ahead of any IF statements in the JCL. This will ensure that UAGRERUN is executed ahead of any initial EXEC or PROC statement that may be enclosed within an IF statement.

D-11526

Windows

UIP-VSCODE

Fixes a problem where a debugging session will not start if the Debug button in the "Run and Debug" section of the activity bar is selected.

Prior to this change, the only way to start a debugging session was with F5.

D-11555

Unix
Windows

USAP

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

D-11862

Windows

UIP-VSCODE

Fixes a problem where a user specifies a dynamic choice field in the configuration.yml file that does not exist, and there are no dependent fields specified in the template.json file.

In this situation, the debugger fails to launch, and the error message KeyError: 'raw_type' is displayed.

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

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-11974

Unix
Windows

UAGSRV

Fixes an issue where Program and Variant Names do not appear in their respective drop down lists when adding an ABAP Program Job Step to an SAP Task.

The failure applies to Load Balancing (Type-B) connections only and results in a "Missing required Value for RFC Connection" error.

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.

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.

D-12323

Unix (except HP-UX)

PYTHON

Delivers a fix within the updated Python distribution that ensures the built-in _ssl and _hashlib modules are imported correctly.

D-12338

Unix (except HP-UX)
Windows

UEXT

Fixes Universal Extension support for Python's async functionality that was provided in Python 3.9.

Full async functionality is supported in

  • Normal task execution
  • Dynamic commands, and
  • Dynamic choice commands.