IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 41

October 13, 2025 Doug Bidwell

I don’t know about you, but we figured there were Technology Refreshes coming, especially with IBM’s TechExchange 2025 developer conference going on last week. However, unlike in past years, we didn’t get any advanced warning. So check out the initial coverage of the new TRs for IBM i 7.5 and IBM i 7.6 and keep an eye out for the coming weeks of detailed drill-downs.

There is also a pretty serious set of vulnerabilities in the IBM i platform that you need to deal with. Check out Security Bulletin: IBM i is affected by Remote Code Execution, Deserialization of Untrusted Data, and Improper Access Controls vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK and IBM Java Runtime [CVE-2025-50106, CVE-2025-30749, CVE-2025-30761, CVE-2025-30754]. More information about this series of issues with Java can be found at this link. The remediation fixes for these issues are:

IBM i Release	  5770-JV1 PTF Number(s)
7.6	          7.5		7.4		7.3
SJ06886	          SJ06885	SJ06884		SJ06883
SJ06891	          SJ06890	SJ06889		SJ06888
SJ06822	          SJ06821	SJ06820		SJ06819
SJ06869	          SJ06868	SJ06867		SJ06866
SJ06811	          SJ06814	SJ06813		SJ06812
SJ06800	          SJ06796	SJ06795		SJ06794
SJ06970	          SJ06810	SJ06809	
SJ06971	          SJ06799	SJ06798	
			        SJ06888	
			        SJ06819	
			        SJ06866	
			        SJ06812	
			        SJ06794

IBM recommends installing the 5770-JV1 PTF Group to receive all the latest PTF(s), which includes all PTFs in the above table. See below:

IBM i Release	5770-JV1 	PTF Group Number & Level
7.6			        SF99965 Level 3	
7.5			        SF99955 Level 18
7.4			        SF99665 Level 30
7.3			        SF99725 Level 39

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

PTF Groups 7.6:

Java
Backup Recovery Solutions
IBM HTTP Server for i
Fix list for IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty
PowerHA Tools for IBM i – Full System Replication (FSR)

PTF Groups 7.5:

Java
Backup Recovery Solutions
IBM HTTP Server for i
Fix list for IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty
PowerHA Tools for IBM i – Full System Replication (FSR)

PTF Groups 7.4:

Java
Backup Recovery Solutions
IBM HTTP Server for i
Fix list for IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty
PowerHA Tools for IBM i – Full System Replication (FSR)

PTF Groups 7.3:

Java
Backup Recovery Solutions
IBM HTTP Server for i
Fix list for IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty
PowerHA Tools for IBM i – Full System Replication (FSR)

Tip ‘O The Week: For those running PowerHA and/or using IASPS, please read the defective PTF’s below!!!

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

JAVA: JTOpen 21.0.6 API, N/A
FSFC: PowerHA Tools for IBM i – Full System Flashcopy, 1119435
FSFC: FSFC Features and Upgrades – 5.1, 6856191
FSFC: FSFC Features and Upgrades – 5.2, 6986607
BMC: How to configure the BMC on HMC 7063-CR2, 6483593
PCAP/WireShark: TRCCNN instructions to generate a .pcap communication trace, 6324292
SFTP: Debugging Unattended SFTP Using Public-Key Authentication without a Passphrase, 638079
SFTP: Configuring the IBM i ssh, sftp, and scp clients to use public-key authentication, 687227
SSH/SFTP/SCP: Configuring the IBM i SSHD Server to Use Public-Key Authentication, 687225

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:

None

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

6257611: IBM i 7.4 Recommended Fixes – Print
6848179 : IBM i 7.5 Recommended Fixes – Print
7245566 : IBM i 7.6 Recommended Fixes – Print

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:

None

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

None

The Guide at a glance: There were no new defectives the week of 10/11/25. 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	09/11/25	MJ07054	        DT450137	MJ07177	(When available)(read the recommendations)
			MJ06249					Read the cover letter-prerequisites!			
7.5	09/11/25	MJ06225	        DT450137	MJ07184 (When available)(read the recommendations) Read the cover letter-prerequisites!                   	
7.4	09/11/25	MJ06247	        DT450137	MJ07181	Same as above, Please read the Cover letter - (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:

October 11, 2025: Volume 27, Number 41

October 4, 2025: Volume 27, Number 40

September 27, 2025: Volume 27, Number 39

September 20, 2025: Volume 27, Number 38

September 13, 2025: Volume 27, Number 37

September 6, 2025: Volume 27, Number 36

August 30, 2025: Volume 27, Number 35

August 23, 2025: Volume 27, Number 34

August 16, 2025: Volume 27, Number 33

August 9, 2025: Volume 27, Number 32