IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 23

June 9, 2025 Doug Bidwell

It’s pretty quiet this week, which is good. We gave you a lot of stuff to do last week anyway, so now you can really get caught up.

The important thing is a new security vulnerability, which is in Security Bulletin: IBM Rational Developer for i is affected by an unspecified Java runtime encryption vulnerability (CVE-2025-21587). You can find out more about this issue with RDi at this link. The affected releases include Rational Developer for i 9.8.0.0 through 9.8.0.4, and the recommended fix is to install the RDi 9.8.0.5 update.

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

PTF Groups 7.6:

None

PTF Groups 7.5:

None

PTF Groups 7.4:

None

PTF Groups 7.3:

None

Tip O’ The Week: Don’t you have enough to worry about?

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

QNTC: Configuration of QNTC (SMB Client) File System, 642319
lpar2rrd: LPAR2RRD, N/A
ECUREP: Enhanced Customer Data Repository (ECuRep) – Send data, 739401

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

QMGTOOLS: Installation Manager Collector for IBM i (IMCOL), 872636
QMGTOOLS and FTP Credentials required for Enhanced Customer Data Repository (ECuRep), 6825167 Video (Note: When using *HTTPS upload type, it ONLY allows the usage of an IBM Transfer ID. You are unable to use the IBMid credentials. *SFTP allows both IBMid OR IBM Transfer ID credentials.)

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

New (or Updated) links in the TAPE tab in The Guide this week:

Tape: How to clear a tape drive reservation CPD8F91 RC2008, 7235827

New (or Updated) links in the WAS tab in The Guide this week:

None

The Guide at a glance: There were new defectives the week of 06/07/25. 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
	--------    --------	---------	-----------------------	
7.6	No Entries										
7.5	05/14/25    SJ04698	DT437849	SJ05538 (When available)(read the recommendations) Read the cover letter-prerequisites!                   			 
7.4	05/14/25    SJ04446	DT437849	SJ05537 Same as above, please read the Cover letter. 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:

June 7, 2025: Volume 27, Number 23

May 31, 2025: Volume 27, Number 22

May 24, 2025: Volume 27, Number 21

May 17, 2025: Volume 27, Number 20

May 10, 2025: Volume 27, Number 19

May 3, 2025: Volume 27, Number 18

April 26, 2025: Volume 27, Number 17

April 21, 2025: Volume 27, Number 16

April 12, 2025: Volume 27, Number 15

April 5, 2025: Volume 27, Number 14