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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Numbers 1 And 2
January 20, 2025 Doug Bidwell
With these two first editions of the IBM i PTF Guide, we start the patching of the venerable descendant of the OS/400 operating systems for 2025. And so, it still being January, we can wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year and, for those of you who are struggling because of natural disasters, medical issues, or economic woes, we feel your pain. It is hard for a lot of us right now.
With that, let us dive into the first and second of the Guides for 2025.
With Numero Uno, there was not a whole lot going …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Numbers 48 Through 50
January 13, 2025 Doug Bidwell
With The Four Hundred on hiatus for the holidays in late December and early January, we are playing catch up with editions of the IBM i PTF Guide. This week, we will close out 2024 with the final three editions put together in December.
Let’s start with Volume 26, Number 48, which came out December 7. It starts with Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in IBM Java SDK affect IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty due to October 2024 CPU, which you can learn more about here. The affected products include WebSphere Application Server 8.5 and …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 47
December 9, 2024 Doug Bidwell
Just a reminder: For the first time in a long, long while there are pre-requisites for a Technology Refresh. Sorting out the contingencies will keep us busy for a while. Here’s the word from IBM: OSP-Technology Refresh : Prereq licensed internal code PTFs, which you can find out more about at this link. These are the pre-reqs for the Technology Refreshes:
- IBM i 7.5: SJ02898
- IBM i 7.4: SJ02897
Now there is another issue you need to be aware of. Specifically: Potential to render new Feature Code EN24 / EN26 CCIN EC2A adapters inoperable, which you can find out …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 46
December 4, 2024 Doug Bidwell
First time in a long, long while there are pre-requisites for a Technology Refresh. Sorting out the contingencies will keep us busy for the rest of the year!
Here’s the word from IBM: OSP-Technology Refresh : Prereq licensed internal code PTFs, which you can find out more about at this link. These are the pre-reqs for the Technology Refreshes:
- IBM i 7.5: SJ02898
- IBM i 7.4: SJ02897
There are also a number of other issues – three to be specific – that have been reported to Big Blue and that have been issued tweaks to correct them. They are …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 45
December 2, 2024 Doug Bidwell
It was pretty quiet in PTF Land just after The Four Hundred went on publishing hiatus, and we are still playing catch up getting out the sequential changes to the IBM i patch stack and any security vulnerabilities you may need to be aware of.
The good news this time around is that we have not run across any security issues. So carry on, and have a look at the High Impact/Pervasive (HIPER) and security patches that have been put out for IBM i 7.3, IBM i 7.4, and IBM i 7.5.
Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 44
November 11, 2024 Doug Bidwell
The number of patches slowed down last week, and we are not sure if that had anything to do with the election in the United States, but what we do know is we all got a break. And we will take it, and then get back to work.
There are a number of security vulnerabilities with WebSphere middleware, an issue with drive logging, and several fixes for TGTRLS in the RPG compilers.
First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability (CVE-2024-45086), which you can read about here. This …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 43
November 6, 2024 Doug Bidwell
It is one of those quite weeks in PTF Land, and that is not surprising given the election that was underway as we went to press with this edition of The Four Hundred. This week, there are a bunch of PTF patches for the core IBM i releases that are still supported by Big Blue, but no security vulnerabilities that we could find and no weird things, either. Go figure.
Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last published:
PTF Groups 7.5:
- Memo to Users
- RPG Café
- PowerHA Tools for IBM i
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 42
November 4, 2024 Doug Bidwell
Welcome to this week’s edition of the IBM i PTF Guide. Just a note of explanation to start off. In the Defective PTF section below, we only show you the first one for each release. Often there are more than one. If there is a new one that you haven’t encountered before, please follow the link in the Guide (for your release level) to get the complete list of defectives. And please review the special instructions – things sometimes become more complex the deeper you dig, especially with defectives.
Now, here is a bug for you in PowerHA. Some …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 41
October 21, 2024 Doug Bidwell
Don’t get hyper about HIPERs, but there are some issues you need to deal with if you have moved to IBM i 7.5. High Impact / Highly Pervasive (HIPER) Issue Potential undetected data loss can occur on LPARs using NPIV with certain Fibre Channel adapters. Potential undetected data loss can occur on LPARs using NPIV over Fibre Channel adapters with the following Feature Codes: EN1E/EN1F, EN1G/EN1H, EN1J/EN1K, EN2L/EN2M, and EN2N/EN2P.
You can read about this HIPER PTF at this link.
Now, there are also two security vulnerabilities on this week’s To Do list.
First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 40
October 14, 2024 Doug Bidwell
First off this week, there is a security vulnerability for you to deal with in your IBM i systems. Specifically, we have Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in MD5 Signature and Hash Algorithm affects IBM i (CVE-2015-7575), which you can read more about here. IBM i releases 6.1, 7.1. and 7.2 are supported and will be fixed as follows:
5770-999, 5770-SS1:
- Release 6.1.1 – MF60292
- Release 7.1 – SI59229, MF61242, MF60291
- Release 7.2 – SI59230, MF61243, MF60290
5770-UME:
- CIM 1.3: SI59244
- CIM 1.4: SI59193
Also, be aware of changes to data upload for IBM Support – Preparing customer firewalls and proxies …
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