Doug Bidwell
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 43
October 23, 2023 Doug Bidwell
Busy, busy, busy. That is what the good people at IBM Rochester have been in the past week, with a slew of PTFs for the currently supported releases – that is IBM i 7.5 and IBM i 7.4 that are on standard support and IBM i 7.3 that just went into extended support at the end of September, a trio of security vulnerabilities in the IBM i stack, and two group PTFs for the IBM i 7.2 release that is supposed to be kaput.
Let’s start with the security vulnerabilities.
First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM i is vulnerable to …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 42
October 16, 2023 Doug Bidwell
Welcome back to work this week. IBM i 7.2 has two new PTF groups even though it has been in extended support from Big Blue since April 30, 2021. The IBM i 7.2 release is still on extended support until April 30, 2024, which is why the security and HIPER group PTFs have been updated for this release. Specifically, that is:
- SF99718 720 Group Security – level 124, which you can find out more about here.
- SF99719 720 Group HIPER – level 235, which you can find out more about there.
As we reported last week in The …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 41
October 9, 2023 Doug Bidwell
Here is something interesting. There is a new cume for IBM i 7.3, just after it goes out of standard support and is now on extended support. For years, we have been after IBM to put a cume out when it stops supporting a release, kind of a summation at end of life. This is the first time Big Blue has managed to do that.
It is likely a coincidence, but it should have always been policy. It is difficult to round up docs and PTFs for an end of life product two years after the fact. Having a stake …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 40
October 2, 2023 Doug Bidwell
In case you have been sleeping under a rock, or under an apple tree, or under a bridge, the IBM i 7.3 operating system release reached its end of standard support this Saturday on September 30. So now if you plan to keep IBM i 7.3 in production, you have to pay for an extended support Software Maintenance contract with Big Blue. You also have to do the math on whether it is worth it to hang back or to move to IBM i 7.5, which has been generally available since May 2022.
Here is the rundown of PTF Groups …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 39
September 25, 2023 Doug Bidwell
This is not new news, but recurring news. IBM has once again pushed the implementation date of an IP change for tech support out a couple of times, and, here it is again. IBM’s notice:
“Due to technical issues, the September 19/20 change has been postponed. Additional guidance will be provided by October 6, 2023. For those that have adjusted their firewall configuration, please do not remove the new entries until we provide further guidance. Preparing customer firewalls and proxies for the upcoming infrastructure changes – Call Home, Electronic Fix Distribution.”
You can find out more about this issue, which …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 38
September 20, 2023 Doug Bidwell
This episode of the IBM i PTF Guide is being put together in honor of that venerable rodeo clown and comedic actor, Louis Burton Lindley, Jr., better known to all of us as Slim Pickens. Because after a bunch of security vulnerabilities were covered in the prior issue that came out on Monday, we are now all caught up after the holiday and there is not a huge amount going on.
But there is always something you need to watch out for. So read on.
Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 37
September 18, 2023 Doug Bidwell
There are a few things you can count on in life. Death. Taxes. Coffee. Beer. The love of a good woman. And a seemingly endless barrage of security vulnerabilities for every computing platform on Earth. There are a bunch of the latter that are new to the IBM i platform this week.
First, we have Security Bulletin: OpenSSL and OpenSSH for IBM i are vulnerable to arbitrary code execution, denial of service, and security restrictions bypass due to multiple vulnerabilities, which you can find out more about at this link. The IBM i PTF number for 5733-SC1 contains the …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 36
September 13, 2023 Doug Bidwell
This issue of the IBM i PTF Guide was put together the Sunday before the Labor Day holiday in America, and as you might imagine, there is not a lot going on. But there are a few things.
First, the DIG or NSLOOKUP tool, which is used to validate DNS entries and which has been around for a while, doesn’t work anymore without PTFs. You can find out more at this link, and the PTFs you need to apply to make it work are as follows:
• V7R5M0: SI84411 • V7R4M0: SI84419 • V7R3M0: SI84438
And of course, there …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 35
September 11, 2023 Doug Bidwell
We have been on hiatus for a few weeks, and there is a lot of stuff to catch up on. There are a slew of security vulnerabilities and a whole bunch of PTFs for the current releases of IBM i that you need to deal with. Let’s start with the security issues.
First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM Java SDK and IBM Java Runtime for IBM i are vulnerable to denial of service, availability, integrity, and confidentiality impacts due to multiple vulnerabilities, which you can find out more about at this link. Here are the PTFs for this vulnerability: …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 34
August 21, 2023 Doug Bidwell
It is still summer, and the big news again this week in PTF Land is a security vulnerability. This time the hole is in the WebSphere Liberty middleware from Big Blue. See Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to a denial of service (CVE-2023-38737), which you can find out more about at this link. IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty versions 22.0.0.13 through 23.0.0.7 are affected.
Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last published:
PTF Groups 7.5:
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
- Security
- Java
- IBM HTTP Server for i
- SAP support