IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 15

April 15, 2020 Doug Bidwell

Big Blue has been busy fixing some issues with the firmware (sometimes called microcode) and licensed internal code (LIC) for Power Systems platforms and the IBM i operating system.

The new firmware is available on the following Power Systems machine types and models: 9008-22L; 9009-22A; 9009-41A; 9009-42A; 9223-22H; 9223-42H. You can find out more about the microcode update at this link.

In addition, IBM has issued the LIC change as well: MA47553 – LIC QPFRADJ Hangs During Main Storage Pool Adjustment. You can learn more at this link, and here is the rundown of the patches by IBM i release:

R720 MF65819 available in cume 9297
R730 MF65818 available in cume 9311
R740 MF65817 available in cume 9151

And here is the rundown by IBM i release:

PTF Groups 7.4

MQ for IBM i – v7.1.0/v8.0.0/V9.0.0
New Defectives, read below, see guide for further info!
Recommended Fixes: High Availability (Thanks to Verna Gebhardt and the HA Gang at Rochester for this one!)

PTF Groups 7.3

MQ for IBM i – v7.1.0/v8.0.0/V9.0.0
New Defectives, read below, see guide for further info!
Recommended Fixes: High Availability (Thanks to Verna Gebhardt and the HA Gang at Rochester for this one!)

PTF Groups 7.2

HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
MQ for IBM i – v7.1.0/v8.0.0/V9.0.0
New Defectives, read below, see guide for further info!
Recommended Fixes: High Availability (Thanks to Verna Gebhardt and the HA Gang at Rochester for this one!)

PTF Groups 7.1

HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)

New (or Updated) Links this week:

System: V6R1 Memo to Users
System: V5R4 Memo to Users

And now for your weekly tip: It is now abundantly clear that community spread is well underway around the world for the novel coronavirus is that causes the COVID-19 respiratory disease that has killed nearly 12,000 people in the United States and nearly 80,000 worldwide. And while this may not be obvious, it takes a very high end mask with extremely fine filtering to stop the virus from attacking people. That’s because the coronavirus – technically known as SARS-CoV-2 – is tiny, on the order of 120 nanometers or about twice as wide as the transistor wires used in the Power4 processor in 2001, but it only some kind of barrier to stop a cough or a sneeze from transmitting a much larger particle if you happen to be infected. A sneeze or a cough is not more or less transmissible if you are exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms or not, and a very large number of people are initially asymptomatic and may not be aware they are shedding the virus. And so, we all need masks to slow down potential transmissions at a time when masks are pretty hard to come by. So here is a tip from Kaiser Permanente on how to make a fabric face mask.

The Guide at a glance: There are new defectives this week (04/11/20). Here is the defective PTF rundown, which is the last defective for each release:

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 15

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