IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 22

June 1, 2022 Doug Bidwell

Well, there is a lot of stuff going on with IBM i PTFs this week, with cumulative patch rollups, or Cumes as we call them, Technology Refreshes, and other goodies. Specifically, IBM i 7.3 and IBM i 7.2 have Cume rollups, as well as their respective TR6 and TR12 updates of new functionality.

There are also two new security vulnerabilities. First, there is Security Bulletin: IBM Navigator for i is vulnerable to an SQL injection (CVE-2022-22495), which you can read about at this link. The patches for this vulnerability are as follows:

IBM i Release	HTTP Server for i Group PTF - Level		
7.5		SF99952 - 01		
7.4		SF99662 - 20		
7.3		SF99722 – 39

Then there is this Security Bulletin: This Power Systems firmware update is being released to address CVE 2022-22309, which you can read about here. Affected Products and Versions: Firmware release FW860, FW940 and FW950 are affected.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last published, with IBM i 7.5 added in since it has been shipping for two weeks now:

PTF Groups 7.5:

All PTF Groups except Cumulative PTF Package & MQ
HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
Security
Backup Recovery Solutions

PTF Groups 7.4:

Cumulative
HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
Technology Refresh (6)
IBM Db2 Mirror for i
TCP/IP
Backup Recovery Solutions

PTF Groups 7.3:

Cumulative
HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
TCP/IP
Technology Refresh (12)
Backup Recovery Solutions

PTF Groups 7.2:

Backup Recovery Solutions

PTF Groups 7.1:

Nothing here.

New (or Updated) links added to the ‘Links’ tab in the guide this week:

Nope

New (or Updated) links added to the ‘QMGtools’ tab in the guide this week:

Nadda

New (or Updated) links added to the ‘ACS_NAV’ tab in the guide this week:

Try again next week. . . .

Tips/Definitions: Sunscreen. You just have to use it. Floss. You know you don’t do it enough.

The Guide at a glance: There are no new defectives this week (05/28/22). Here is the defective PTF rundown, which is the last defective for each release:

	Defect		Defective	APAR	Fixing
	Date		PTF			PTF
	--------	--------	-------	-------
7.5	No Entries
7.4	5/23/22		MF69729		MA49708	MF69956	(Read the link in the guide!)
			MF68906
7.3	5/23/22		SI78449		SE77963	SI79965	(Read the link in the guide!)
7.2	12/08/21	SI77634		SE73420	SI78039	(Read the link in the guide!)
7.1	07/29/19	SI69653		SE71807	SI70603 (5733SC1, OpenSSH, available!

Be sure to access the link in the Guide for further details.

Below is the usual archive of the IBM i PTF Guide to help you work through the PTFs in chronological order:

May 28, 2022: Volume 24, Number 22

May 25, 2022: Volume 24, Number 21

May 14, 2022: Volume 24, Number 20

May 7, 2022: Volume 24, Number 19

April 30, 2022: Volume 24, Number 18

April 23, 2022: Volume 24, Number 17

April 16, 2022: Volume 24, Number 16

April 2, 2022: Volume 24, Number 14

March 26, 2022: Volume 24, Number 13

March 19, 2022: Volume 24, Number 12