Doug Bidwell
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 31
August 5, 2020 Doug Bidwell
Forget the coronavirus pandemic, we have been crazy busy here at DLB Associates. So this week, of necessity, we will be short and sweet. Like Shirley Temple. Or barbeque ribs. Or real Italian espresso. Or memories from early childhood – well, some of the time.
In PTF Land this week, there appears to be a new re-spin of the licensed internal code (LIC) for IBM 7.2, Q version to be precise. Here’s the PTF rundown by release:
PTF Groups 7.4:
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
- SAP Support Required PTF List for IBM i
- QMGTOOLS
PTF Groups 7.3:
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
- SAP Support
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 30
July 27, 2020 Doug Bidwell
As you know, IBM tweaked the entry part of the Power Systems lineup running Power9 processors, and The Four Hundred reported on this on announcement day, which was July 14.
There are some PTF angles to this, which Steve Will, the System i architect at Big Blue, explained thus: “On July 14, several new IBM Power Systems announcements are happening, and to support those announcements, the IBM i 7.4 TR2 PTF Group (SF99737 PTF Group Level 2) and the IBM i 7.3 TR8 PTF Group (SF99727 PTF Group Level 8) will be made available on July 17.” We have …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 29
July 22, 2020 Doug Bidwell
OK, last week I said that the action never stops here at the IBM i PTF Guide. But it does slow down and it does get very much focused from time to time. And it is no surprise when things slow down during July and August. Even with the coronavirus pandemic adversely affecting all of our lives and loves, people are taking a little downtime from living at work – no, we are not working from home. It is the other way around, clearly. And most of us are living in a restaurant and many of us are living …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 28
July 20, 2020 Doug Bidwell
The action never stops here at the IBM i PTF Guide. Which is probably a good thing because if a platform isn’t being constantly updated, expanded, tweaked, and fixed, then it probably is not going to live for much longer in this fast-changing world. No one can say that about the IBM i platform. Nope.
So for you security buffs, check this out. Security Bulletin: BIND for IBM i is affected by CVE-2020-8616 and CVE-2020-8617, which has an insanely long link buried here. The link above provides details, but the gist of it is also here by release: …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 27
July 14, 2020 Doug Bidwell
Welcome to the second half of 2020 after a brief holiday hiatus from The Four Hundred and therefore the IBM i PTF Guide.
There is another new HIPER for the Virtual I/O Server, or VIOS, which again we know all of you IBM i shops love dearly. The HIPER is IJ25390, and it is for slow TCP performance with the Virtual Ethernet adapter and large send. Here is some more on that LSO – short for large send offload – and specifically a link that explains it better than we did two weeks ago, plus another link to a …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 26
July 6, 2020 Doug Bidwell
Well, we made it through half of 2020, and that is something of a miracle. Let’s hope the second half is not so dramatic. The odds are not favoring that at the moment, but hope springs eternal and that is how we have made it through the past 15,000 years of pre-history to today, if you think about it. It’s helpful to take the long view at critical times.
As far as PTFs go, there is a new HIPER for the Virtual I/O Server, or VIOS, which we know all you IBM i shops love. The HIPER is IJ25390, and …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 25
June 24, 2020 Doug Bidwell
We’ve got some movement this week on the PowerHA front – new PTFs are available! Get more information here.
7.2 PowerHA (for IBM i 7.2 and 7.3) SI73520 7.4 PowerHA SI73521
Also, don’t miss this fix: MF67243 – IPL-SRCB6005122-UNPRED SYSTEM HALT DURING IPL TO APPLY PTFS
This isn’t a HIPER yet, but, sometimes you just have to put these on. Sometimes a fix lets you put on other fixes and this is one of those.
Security Bulletin: OpenSSL for IBM i is affected by CVE-2020-1967
5733-SC1 7.1 – SI73429 7.2, 7.3 & 7.4 – SI73430
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 24
June 15, 2020 Doug Bidwell
Another week, and another security bulletin for vulnerabilities in open source software. This time, it is CVE-2020-1927 and CVE-2020-1934 in Apache HTTP Server that affect IBM i. You can read more about it at this link. The PTFs that fix it are:
- Release 7.4: SI73415
- Release 7.3: SI72840
- Release 7.2: SI72748
Here is the rundown by operating system release level:
PTF Groups 7.4:
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
- IBM MQ for IBM i – V7.1.0/V8.0.0/V9.0.0
PTF Groups 7.3:
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
- IBM MQ for IBM i – V7.1.0/V8.0.0/V9.0.0
PTF Groups 7.2
- Nothing to see here.
PTF Groups 7.1
- Nothing to see
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 23
June 8, 2020 Doug Bidwell
Some weeks are crazy when it comes to PTF patches with IBM i, and some weeks are relatively quiet. And thankfully, after a particularly crazy couple of months in the world, the patch load is pretty light this week.
Here is the rundown by operating system release level:
PTF Groups 7.4:
- QMGtools
- SAP Support Required PTF List
PTF Groups 7.3:
- QMGtools
- SAP Support Required PTF List
PTF Groups 7.2:
- QMGtools
PTF Groups 7.1
- SAP Support Required PTF List
The new or updated links in the IBM i PTF Guide sheet this week are:
- System: Software Servers Table
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 22
June 1, 2020 Doug Bidwell
First of all, thanks to the readership of the IBM i PTF Guide for catching errors and other issues in last week’s edition. We have fixed a reference to V7R3 defectives. And the number for the V7R3 cume is happening in the future, we cleaned that up, too.
There is a New Group – TCP/IP for 7.4 – see the link in the Guide for details. Note: This group has not been added to SF99741 (All Groups) yet and it must be ordered separately.
There is also updated microcode for Machine-Type Models: 9008-22L; 9009-22A; 9009-41A; 9009-42A; 9223-22H; 9223-42H (System Firmware …
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