IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 28, Number 10

March 9, 2026 Doug Bidwell

It was a super quiet week in IBM i Land this week. Seriously. Like, we have never seen it so quiet. No security vulnerabilities, no new PTF groups issued for any of the five supported IBM i releases. It has been very, very quiet indeed. So that probably means you need to brace yourself for a bunch of stuff in the next couple of weeks.

We did want to point out that there are massive price changes coming for Power Systems main memory, which were announced to business partners on March 2 and which take effect on April. (This is no April Fool’s Day joke, I am sorry to say.) If you need to add memory or flash to a system, or you need to buy a new system, it probably makes sense to get your order in before April 1 because after that, memory and flash is going to cost you a lot more money. And given the supply and demand imbalance in the IT sector right now, there very well could be even more price hikes later in 2026. This is going to get worse before it gets better. You can thank the GenAI boom for that. We report on this elsewhere in The Four Hundred this week, so make sure you check it out.

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

PTF Groups 7.2:

None

Tip O’ The Week: The last two digits of the Win App ACS download is the Version of the ODBC driver. See the link in the ACS_NAV Tab!

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

JAVA: Download, Installation, and Usage of Java 21 on the IBM i OS, 7231371

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:

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:

WAS: How to Manually Associate an Apache HTTP Server with a WebSphere Application Server Profile, 643217

The Guide at a glance: There were new defectives the week of 03/07/26. 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	12/09/25    MJ07438	DT457460	MJ08280	(When available)(read the recommendations)
							Read the cover letter-prerequisites!			
7.5	01/15/26    SJ08112	DT460154	xxxxxxx (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.

With that, we are caught up. Finally.

Below is the usual archive of the IBM i PTF Guide to help you work through the PTFs in chronological order:

March 7, 2026: Volume 28, Number 10

February 28, 2026: Volume 28, Number 09

February 21, 2026: Volume 28, Number 08

February 14, 2026: Volume 28, Number 07

February 7, 2026: Volume 28, Number 06

January 31, 2026: Volume 28, Number 05

January 24, 2026: Volume 28, Number 04

January 17, 2026: Volume 28, Number 03

January 10, 2026: Volume 28, Number 02