IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 9

March 3, 2025 Doug Bidwell

If you are using Rational Developer for i to create applications and your company uses the Singularity endpoint manager from SentinelOne, then you might be having an issue.

According to this notice from IBM, after updating Windows 11 to 24H2, Rational Developer for i 9.8.0.3 may be ended abruptly by SentinelOne. IBM adds: “There may be a Java dialogue left showing “Java was started but returned exit code=-1073741571” and the Windows event viewer will show that the problem happened in ntdll.dll.” The temporary workaround is to revert to Windows 11 23H2 or whitelist RDI in SentinelOne until IBM figures out how to fix the issue.

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

PTF Groups 7.5:

Temporary Storage PTFs
QMGTOOLS

PTF Groups 7.4:

Temporary Storage PTFs
QMGTOOLS

PTF Groups 7.3:

Temporary Storage PTFs
QMGTOOLS

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

AJS: Advanced Job Scheduler (AJS) plugin to IBM Navigator for i, 6845165
JAVA: IBM i ACS Java dumps taking up PC disk space, 1077981
EMAIL: SNDSMTPEMM Command Instructions, 684751
SAV/RST: Missing QFILE on save tape created by BRMS, 646059
SAV/RST: Creating an I_base_01 DVD for Use with DM IPL, 666865
JAVA: JTOpen 21.0.0 API, N/A

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

None

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

JAVA: IBM i ACS Java dumps taking up PC disk space, 1077981
Trace: Collecting A Trace Using The ACS Client, 687417
Console ACS Console Setup for Power 8 and later servers – Random Link Local Method, 6236506

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

New (or Updated) “Stuff” added to REF tab in The Guide this week:

None

The Guide at a glance:

There were new defectives the week of 03/01/25. Defective PTF rundown – the latest defective for each release. Click on the Defective PTF link for your release in the Guide:

	Defect		Defective	APAR		Fixing
	Date		PTF				PTF
	--------	--------	---------	-----------------------	
7.5	02/14/25	SJ03360	DT422644	SJ03833 (When available)(read the recommendations)
			SJ03138			Read the cover letter-prerequisites!
			SJ02952
			SJ02797
			SJ02479
			SJ02450
			SJ01867
			SJ01802
						 
7.4	01/27/25	SJ03166	DT422373	SJ03785 (When available)(read the recommendations)
							Read the cover letter-prerequisites!

7.3	01/27/25	SJ03169	DT422375	SJ03786 (When available)(read the recommendations)

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 1, 2025: Volume 27, Number 09

February 22, 2025: Volume 27, Number 08

February 15, 2025: Volume 27, Number 07

February 8, 2025: Volume 27, Number 06

February 1, 2025: Volume 27, Number 05

January 25, 2025: Volume 27, Number 04

January 18, 2025: Volume 27, Number 03

January 11, 2025: Volume 27, Number 02

January 04, 2025: Volume 27, Number 01

December 21, 2024: Volume 26, Number 50