Doug Bidwell
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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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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 21
May 27, 2020 Doug Bidwell
As we report elsewhere in this issue, there really is not going to be a Technology Refresh as we know it and as we were all lead to believe was coming for IBM i 7.3 and IBM i 7.4, but rather just a refresh of all the pertinent groups through the PTF process.
Also, IBM’s Entitled Systems Support (ESS) has finally finished shedding its old coat, and the new one contains current resaves and a new way of asking for things! So be aware of that and take a gander. Moreover, Domino links have changed, thanks to Michael Mayer in …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 20
May 20, 2020 Doug Bidwell
It has been a weird week in PTF Land. The respin of the operating systems is temporarily unavailable from IBM’s Entitled Systems Support and as far as we can tell the Technology Refreshes – that’s IBM i 7.3 TR8 and IBM i 7.4 TR2 – are not yet available. We are trying to get to the bottom of the issue. There’s something weird going on.
In the meantime, there are recommended High Availability fixes for IBM i 7.2., IBM i 7.3, and IBM i 7.4. There is also a Security Bulletin: Vulnerability CVE-2020-4345 in SQL that affects IBM i, 7.4, …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 19
May 13, 2020 Doug Bidwell
The big news this week in IBM i PTFs is that there is a new security bulletin that is out relating to Python that affects IBM i 7.2, IBM i 7.3, and IBM i 7.4. You can read about Security Bulletin: Vulnerability CVE-2020-8492 in Python at this link.
There are no new or updated links in the IBM i PTF Guide sheet this week, so steady as she goes on that front.
And now your weekly tip: Talk to people, take the extra time, we all need to talk to each other at this time.
The Guide at a …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 18
May 6, 2020 Doug Bidwell
Hello good people of IBM i Land. This week, there are updates for Rational Developer for i Version 9.6.0.8, for all releases of IBM i. This has been an on again/off again dance with IBM, and we are not sure why Big Blue posted it a few weeks ago, then unposted it, and then reposted it. However, the updates for RDi are for real – and available this week!
Aside from that, it has been a pretty quiet week for PTFs in Lake Bugsbegone up in lovely Minnesota, the Land of Lakes, with no new groups for the two current …
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