Doug Bidwell
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 31
August 2, 2021 Doug Bidwell
In this edition of the IBM i PTF Guide, we want to remind you once again that when you go to Fix Central at IBM to download PTFs to patch your IBM i operating systems and related systems software, you must use an encrypted variant of FTP to do so – that’s FTPS or SFTP, depending – as of July 10. If you follow all of the links starting with the Fix Central homepage, you will eventually get to this link right here, which tells you how to configure SFTP on your machine. We interpret this to mean that …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 30
July 28, 2021 Doug Bidwell
Back on May 8, we told you that Access Client Services 1.1.8.7 was being replaced by ACS 1.1.8.8 because of a bug in its code. On May 15, in the following week’s issue, we apologized because what we heard through our channels turned out to not be true. Today, we found the following document, which we are adding to the IBM i PTF Guide, which is dated May 4 and provides three different workarounds for the issue that we thought was going to compel IBM to upgrade to ACS 1.1.8.8.
Anyway, of the three workarounds recommended for the …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 29
July 19, 2021 Doug Bidwell
Welcome to the latest edition of the IBM i PTF Guide. In this week’s edition, you will find updated microcode for Firmware 860. The latest service pack 860.A0 is now available for System firmware level SC860 and SV860. You can find more at this link.
Also, IBM is announcing PTFs MH01895 and MH01896, which are an ifix for HMC V9 R1 M942. You can find out more in this link.
Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:
PTF Groups 7.4:
- HIPERs
- Db2 for IBM i
- IBM Db2 Mirror for i
PTF Groups …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 28
July 14, 2021 Doug Bidwell
We are finally done playing catch up after the Independence Day holiday in the United States with this week’s issue of the IBM i PTF Guide, which is now current. First, there is updated microcode for Firmware 940, which you can read about at this link. There are also new defective PTFs on DTAQ Host servers for IBM i 7.4.
Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:
PTF Groups 7.4:
- Download WAS 9.0 from Passport Advantage Online
- Download WAS 9.0.5 from Passport Advantage Online
- High Availability for ibm i
- QMGTOOLS
PTF Groups 7.3: …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 27
July 12, 2021 Doug Bidwell
With the July 4th holidays in the United States, it was a pretty quiet time for PTF updates from Big Blue. There were some High Impact and Pervasive (HIPER) and security patches released, and we took the time to update a few links within the IBM i PTF Guide spreadsheet, which we try to do during these quiet times. All four releases, including IBM i 7.1, had tweaks.
Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:
PTF Groups 7.4:
- HIPERs
- Security
PTF Groups 7.3:
- HIPERs
- Security
PTF Groups 7.2:
- HIPERs
- Security
PTF Groups 7.1:
- HIPERs
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 26
June 30, 2021 Doug Bidwell
Attention all IBM i shops. You may not be aware of it, but FTP is changing to FTPS/SFTP (secure) before the end of June or in early July 2021. (It’s not clear.) All orders submitted just prior to the change will be removed.
Also, many thanks to Ron Schmitz for the IMGCLG link that I added to the IBM i PTF Guide sheet this week, which you will see below in its usual place.
And finally, for those of you who are in the United States, happy July 4th holiday, and for those of you who are not, why …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 25
June 21, 2021 Doug Bidwell
It was a relatively quiet week from IBM on the PTF patching front, and so we have used to the time to do a whole lot of tweaks to the links in the IBM i PTF Guide, which have a bunch of new and updated links embedded in the Excel spreadsheet as you will see from the list below and from the sheet itself.
But first, you know the order of operations that we stick to every week, so here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:
PTF Groups 7.4:
- MGTools
PTF Groups 7.3:
- MGTools
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 24
June 14, 2021 Doug Bidwell
Don’t get hyper this week, but the big thing happening in IBM i Land is a set of high impact and pervasive, or HIPER, PTF patches to all four current variants of the IBM i operating system. There are also tweaks to storage PTFs and for the MQSeries message queueing middleware that runs on various platforms from Big Blue, including IBM i.
Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:
PTF Groups 7.4:
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
- Temporary Storage PTFs
- MQ for IBM i – v9.0.0/v9.1.0/V9.2.0
PTF Groups 7.3:
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
- Temporary Storage PTFs
- MQ for
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 22
June 9, 2021 Doug Bidwell
We are playing a little catch up after the Memorial Day holiday here in IBM i PTF Land. It was fairly quiet over the holiday weekend, with a set of PTF updates for the Hardware Management Console. To be specific, take a look at PTFs MH01889 and MH01890, which are an interim fix, or ifix as IBM calls them, for HMC V9 R2 M951 running on virtualized X86 or Power servers, respectively. See this link for more information.
Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:
PTF Groups 7.4:
- DB2 Web Query for i V2.2.1
- Content
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 21
May 26, 2021 Doug Bidwell
Hello everyone. First, a reminder. Our apologies, ACS 1.1.8.7 is the most current version of ACS, and is not being pulled in favor of 1.1.8.8. Assumptions were made at the case level that were later resolved and not communicated to us. Again, our apologies. The current version if you apply the fix will read “TESTFIX_1.1.8.7” in the Help/About. If you download the ZIP file, the Help/About will read “1.1.8.7 Build 1170” if it includes the fix.
Here is a link to the document that tells you how to do this and here is the link to the patch itself. …
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