IBM i Package Maintenance Levels - Agent 7.9.x
There are two deliveries of the IBM i Agent available and supported:
- Workload Automation 5.1.1 for IBM i
- Users desiring the Universal Command and Universal Data Mover should continue to use this version.
- Universal Agent 7.8.x and later for IBM i
- Users desiring integration with Universal Controller, native task execution, and Universal Extension support should use this version.
- UCMD and UDM support will be added to this package in a future release.
Both versions may be installed alongside each other for complete Universal Agent coverage.
This page contains information for both releases.
Overview
This page identifies the package contents for the Workload Automation 5.1.1 for IBM i and the Universal Agent 7.9.x for IBM i releases, and the maintenance level of every component in their respective packages.
Universal Agent 7.9.x for IBM i Packages
Release | Release Date | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
UA 7.9.2.1 | February 10, 2026 | 7.9.2.1 | 7.9.2.1 | 7.9.2.1 | 7.9.2.1 | 7.9.2.1 | 7.9.2.1 | 7.9.2.1 | ||||||
UA 7.9.2.0 | January 13, 2026 | 7.9.2.0 | 7.9.2.0 | 7.9.2.0 | 7.9.2.0 | 7.9.2.0 | 7.9.2.0 | 7.9.2.0 | ||||||
UA 7.9.1.0 | December 9, 2025 | 7.9.1.0 | 7.9.1.0 | 7.9.1.0 | 7.9.1.0 | 7.9.1.0 | 7.9.1.0 | 7.9.1.0 | ||||||
UA 7.9.0.0 | September 30, 2025 | 7.9.0.0 | 7.9.0.0 | 7.9.0.0 | 7.9.0.0 | 7.9.0.0 | 7.9.0.0 | 7.9.0.0 |
Agent 7.9.2.2 - March 10, 2026
No IBM i changes are available in the Universal Agent 7.9.2.2 maintenance release.
Agent 7.9.2.1 - February 10, 2026
Change Id | Platform | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
D-13552 | IBM i | 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. |
Agent 7.9.2.0 - January 13, 2026
Change Id | Platform | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
D-12850 | All | UAGSRV | Upgrade the OpenSSL library that Universal Agent uses to OpenSSL 3.0.18 to resolve outstanding CVEs. |
Agent 7.9.1.0 - December 9, 2025
Change Id | Platform | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
B-18370 | IBM i | UAGSRV | Add support for executing scripted IBM i Virtual Terminal sessions from a Universal Agent batch environment. This is required to support the scenario of automating work that must be run from an interactive session, which may involve interaction with menu panels for a command or application. Support for this feature will include the following enhancements:
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D-13864 | IBM i | UAGSRV | Ensures that an IBM i task will always execute with the credentials specified in the task's definition. If no credentials are specified, the behavior is unchanged and the task will continue to run as the Universal Broker user. |
D-14036 | All | UAGSRV | Ensure that an attempt to establish an improper SSL/TLS session over the affected Server application's component interface is handled gracefully. |
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. |
Agent 7.9.0.1 - November 11, 2025
No IBM i changes are available in the Universal Agent 7.9.0.1 maintenance release.
Agent 7.9.0.0 - September 30, 2025
Change Id | Platform | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
B-22083 | IBM i | UAGSRV | Provides a change that removes restrictions on the number of environment variables that can be provided to a Unix or IBM i task. The previous implementation limited the number of environment variables to 2000 on the affected platforms, but Universal Agent will now recognize as many environment variables as the system supports. |
B-22312 | IBM i | INSTALL | Compress distribution files with gzip instead of the compress utility to decrease file size. info Note that the file extension of affected distribution files has changed from .Z to .gz. This applies to the IBM i distribution file, the tarball distribution files for z/OS, and to all Unix distribution files. The file extension for the Windows installation packages has NOT changed. It is still .exe. The file extension for the .zip z/OS distribution file is also unchanged. |
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-13463 | IBM i | 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. |
D-13518 | All | UAGSRV | Fixes a regression introduced in Universal Agent 7.8.2.0 that could affect the way string arrays are exchanged between Agent components and with OMS. The affected code is executed on all platforms, but the problem was exposed by a situation specific to z/OS. In that situation, we observed instances where a message sent from a secondary z/OS Agent to a primary z/OS Agent in a sysplex configuration could lose some formatting. The primary content of the message was intact, but the loss of formatting caused an exception to be reported in the Universal Controller log when it received that message from OMS. The most visible result that the task instance had no Restartable Job Steps even though the task itself finished successfully. |
Workload Automation 5.1.1 for IBM i Packages
Release | Release Date | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
5.1.1.0 | April 3, 2024 | 5.1.1.0 | 5.1.1.0 | 5.1.1.0 | 5.1.1.0 | 5.1.1.0 | 5.1.1.0 | 5.1.1.0 | 5.1.1.0 | |||||
5.1.1.0 | February 3, 2021 | 5.1.1.0 | 5.1.1.0 | 5.1.1.0 | 5.1.1.0 | 5.1.1.0 | 5.1.1.0 | 5.1.1.0 | 5.1.1.0 | |||||
5.1.0.0 | January 30, 2020 | 5.1.0.0 | 5.1.0.0 | 5.1.0.0 | 5.1.0.0 | 5.1.0.0 | 5.1.0.0 | 5.1.0.0 | 5.1.0.0 | |||||
5.1.0.0 | February 28, 2018 | 5.1.0.0 | 5.1.0.0 | 5.1.0.0 | 5.1.0.0 | 5.1.0.0 | 5.1.0.0 | 5.1.0.0 | 5.1.0.0 | |||||
5.1.0.0 | January 27, 2012 | 5.1.0.0 | 5.1.0.0 | 5.1.0.0 | 5.1.0.0 | 5.1.0.0 | 5.1.0.0 | 5.1.0.0 | 5.1.0.0 |
5.1.1.0 - April 3, 2024 (No updates, only platform certification)
Change ID | Platform | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
B-17111 | IBM i | INSTALL | Certify the IBMi Universal Agent 5.1.1.0 for IBM i 7.5. |
5.1.1.0 - February 3, 2021
Change ID | Platform | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
B-12401 | IBM i | UBROKER | Add support for TLS 1.2. This change was made primarily to support new TLS session defaults supplied by the Universal Agent 6.9.0.0 release. Additional items added to support this upgrade include support for the following configuration options:
These options behave just as their equivalents in our Universal Agent 6.x releases. Additionally, support for the following ciphers is added:
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D-07281 | IBM i | UDMMGR UDMSRV | Prevent a situation in which a transfer may fail if an assigned process ID is larger than 7 digits. |
5.1.0.0 - January 30, 2020
Change ID | Platform | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
B-11354 | IBM i | PKG | Certify Workload Automation 5.1.0 release on IBM i 7.2 and IBM i 7.4. info A 7.2-compatible installation package was provided for this effort, but no Universal Agent components were changed. |
5.1.0.0 - February 28, 2018
Change ID | Platform | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
B-08466 | IBM i | Certify Workload Automation 5.1.0 release on IBM i 7.3. |
(No component changes for this release.)