IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 14

April 8, 2025 Doug Bidwell

If you need a little something to wake you up, or a little night reading before you drift off to sleep, check out the Known Issues And Fix Information database at Big Blue for the IBM platform, which you can see here. The IBM i PTF Guide is meant to save you from having to be familiar with this, of course. But it can’t hurt to be aware of this database.

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

PTF Groups 7.5:

HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
Java
Backup Recovery Solutions
Content Manager OnDemand for i – 5770-RD1 7.5 (10.5.0.8)
MustGather: How To Obtain and Install QMGTOOLS

PTF Groups 7.4:

Java
Backup Recovery Solutions
Content Manager OnDemand for i – 5770-RD1 (10.5.0.8)
MustGather: How To Obtain and Install QMGTOOLS

PTF Groups 7.3:

Java
Content Manager OnDemand for i – 5770-RD1 (10.5.0.8)
MustGather: How To Obtain and Install QMGTOOLS

Tip O’ The Week: Don’t look back too much, keep moving and keep looking ahead.

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

Optical: Optical hardware driver flight recorder, 666617
PTF: IBM i APARs/PTFs have migrated to Known Issues/Fix Information, 7130405

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

MustGather: Temporary Storage growth in *PROCESS bucket 2, 687835

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

None

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 04/05/25. 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:

April 5, 2025: Volume 27, Number 14

March 29, 2025: Volume 27, Number 13

March 22, 2025: Volume 27, Number 12

March 15, 2025: Volume 27, Number 11

March 8, 2025: Volume 27, Number 10

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