IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 44

November 3, 2025 Doug Bidwell

Welcome to the IBM i PTF Guide, we start out this week with a security vulnerability. Specifically, we have Security Bulletin: IBM i is affected by a privilege escalation in IBM i SQL services [CVE-2025-36367], about which you can find out more at this link. IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now, with the following patches:

IBM i Release	5770-SS1	PTF Number(s)
7.6			        SJ07552
			        SJ07650
			        SJ07651
			        SJ07652	
7.5			        SJ07553
			        SJ07653
			        SJ07654
			        SJ07655	
7.4			        SJ07554
			        SJ07656
			        SJ07657
			        SJ07658	
7.3			        SJ07555
			        SJ07659
			        SJ07660
			        SJ07661	
7.2			        SJ07556
			        SJ07662
			        SJ07663
			        SJ07664

And now, for downloads and drivers: Upcoming Migration of Secure File Transfer Service. As a follow-up to IBM’s previous communication regarding the migration of the Secure File Transfer service, it would like to share the new IP address associated with the consolidated hostnames.

HIPER/Runtimes for Java Technology
HIPER/Hardware Management Console V9
IBM Power System S814 Server (8286-41A)
PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX
Rational Developer for i
PowerVM Virtual I/O Server
Hardware Management Console V8
WebSphere Application Server

The IP is required so that customers can add (not replace) them to their firewall allowlists in preparation for the migration. Hostname for external clients (non-IBM): transfer.boulder.ibm.com. New IP: 170.225.126.15

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

PTF Groups 7.6:

QMGTOOLS

PTF Groups 7.5:

HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
QMGTOOLS

PTF Groups 7.4:

QMGTOOLS

PTF Groups 7.3:

QMGTOOLS
MQ for IBM i – v7.1.0/v8.0.0/V9.0.0/V9.1/V9.265

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:

TCP/IP_LSO: How to Temporarily Enable or Disable Large Send Offload (LSO) on the IBM i, 687623 Video
QSQIBMCHK: QSQIBMCHK Tool, 643583
IWS/IAS/SSL/TLS: How to enable an IBM Integrated Web Services (IWS) Server for Secure Socket Layer (SSL) / Transport Layer Security (TLS), 685355

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

QMGTOOLS: Create a transfer ID to upload data to IBM, 6514791
MustGather: Collecting Job Watcher Data, 685927
QMGTOOLS: Print HTTP Report (PRTHTTPRPT), 6206578
QMGTOOLS: Get HTTP Server Info (GETHTTPINF), 6206619

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:

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 11/01/25. 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
	--------    --------	---------	-----------------------	
7.6	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:

November 1, 2025: Volume 27, Number 44

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