IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 43

October 27, 2025 Doug Bidwell

In case you have been away on vacation or just fell asleep for a few weeks, we wanted to remind you that there are Technology Refreshes for the two most recent IBM i releases.

IBM i 7.6 Technology Refresh 1 has a planned availability date of November 21, 2025 and you can find out more at this link. IBM i 7.5 Technology Refresh 7 has the same availability, and you can find out more here.

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

PTF Groups 7.6:

QMGTOOLS
RPG Café
Visual Studio Code for IBM i

PTF Groups 7.5:

QMGTOOLS
Defective PTFs
RPG Café
Visual Studio Code for IBM i

PTF Groups 7.4:

QMGTOOLS
RPG Café
Visual Studio Code for IBM i

PTF Groups 7.3:

QMGTOOLS
RPG Café
Visual Studio Code for IBM i

Tip ‘O The Week: Some IBM i “green screen” tips:

“&” followed by a space in any IBM provided field shows you the available parms that can be used in that field

“&” by itself will extend a field that can be extended one increment (don’t know what the increment is)

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

BRMS: Merging BRMS Data to Target System with Existing BRMS, 686225
Virtualization: IBM Power Virtualization Best Practices Guide , 7155159

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

MustGather: Issues with the IBM Web Administration for i GUI, 634347
Obtaining, Installing, and Running QMGTOOLS for the Save/Restore/BRMS Data Collections, 645457
MustGather: QSRSRV – How to Collect Save/Restore Problem Data, 634597

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

Bookmarks: How to edit bookmarks in Navigator for i, 7028566
DCM: How to Change the Password to the *System Store in Digital Certificate Manager for i (DCM), 6836905

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:

None

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 10/25/25. 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	10/17/25    SJ06793	DT453552	SJ07607	(When available)(read the recommendations)
									Read the cover letter-prerequisites!
7.5	10/22/25    SJ06924	DT453939	SJ07685 (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 25, 2025: Volume 27, Number 43

October 18, 2025: Volume 27, Number 42

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