IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 10

March 11, 2024 Doug Bidwell

The beat just keeps on rolling for IBM i 7.2, which is now four releases back from the current IBM i 7.5 release and which is still getting updates. There is a new Group HIPER again this week after there being a Group HIPER only a week ago, and there is also a Group Security set of patches, too, for IBM i 7.2.

To be precise, there is a new 720 Group HIPER, level 243, rolled up in PTF patch SF99719, which you can read about here. There is also a new 720 Group Security, level 130, rolled up in PTF patch SF99718, which you can find out more about there.

There is also – you guessed it – a new security vulnerability for the IBM i stack. It is described in Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty could provide weaker than expected security (CVE-2023-50312), which you can read about here and which affects IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty versions 17.0.0.3 through 24.0.0.2.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last published:

PTF Groups 7.5:

HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
Security
IBM MQ for IBM i – v9.2.0/v9.3.0
What’s New!
MustGather: How To Obtain and Install QMGTOOLS

PTF Groups 7.4:

HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
Security
MQ for IBM i – v9.0.0/v9.1.0/v9.2.0/v9.3.0
MustGather: How To Obtain and Install QMGTOOLS

PTF Groups 7.3:

HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
Security
MQ for IBM i – v7.1.0/v8.0.0/V9.0.0/V9.1/V9.2
MustGather: How To Obtain and Install QMGTOOLS

Tip O’ The Week: Latest IBM Pre-upgrade Verification (PRUV) tool for IBM i for MacOS or Windows is dated 2024-01-24. Find out more at this link.

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

UAK: How To Automatically Update Access Key via HMC, 6238172
Security: IBM i Security Asset Versions, 6589841

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

MustGather: Collecting a PEX Heap Trace – QMGTOOLS/STRPSC, 6427019
Mustgather: How to collect and review the HANDLEHEAPS macro output from SST, 6557454

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

Deploy: IBM i Access Client Solutions: Customization and deployment made easy, N/A
Connecting to IBM i ACS Linux, MacOS, and PASE App Pkgs, PDF

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

None

New (or Updated) links Redbooks added this week:

None

The Guide at a glance: There are new defectives this week (03/09/24). Here is the defective PTF rundown, which is the last defective for each release:

	Defect		Defective	APAR	Fixing
	Date		PTF			PTF
	--------	--------	-------	------------------------	
7.5	01/10/24	SI85576		SE81023	SI85663 (When available)
7.4	03/05/24	HF71521	MA50510	MF71656 (When available)
7.3	01/10/24	SI85576		SE81023	SI85663 (When 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:

March 9, 2024: Volume 26, Number 10

March 2, 2024: Volume 26, Number 9

February 24, 2024: Volume 26, Number 8

February 17, 2024: Volume 26, Number 7

February 10, 2024: Volume 26, Number 6

February 3, 2024: Volume 26, Number 5

January 27, 2024: Volume 26, Number 4

January 20, 2024: Volume 26, Number 3

January 13, 2024: Volume 26, Number 2

January 6, 2024: Volume 26, Number 1