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Big Blue Bolsters Navigator For i With New Stuff

October 14, 2024 Alex Woodie

Changes are afoot with Navigator for i, the Web-based administrative tool for the IBM i platform, which gains a range of new capabilities with the latest Technology Refresh. Some of the more visible additions to Navigator include complete support for the Advanced Job Scheduler and expanded support for new security journal data mart. But not to be overlooked are the retirement of the old Web Admin GUI (with replacements in Navigator), and enhancements to PDI.

Navigator for i is IBM’s strategic Web-based console for administrating the IBM i server. The product enables administrators to monitor and manage various components of …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 12

March 25, 2024 Doug Bidwell

It’s a pretty quiet week in IBM i PTF Land, which is just want you want as Spring has sprung and we are getting ready for the Easter holiday coming next weekend. So, no security vulnerabilities to report this week, which is a good thing. There are some group PTFs for the current releases and we have added some new links to the IBM i PTF Guide spreadsheet as well.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last published:

PTF Groups 7.5:
- DB2 for IBM i
- SAP support required PTF list for IBM
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 11

March 18, 2024 Doug Bidwell

This week in IBM i is sponsored by security vulnerabilities and precious little else. There are three security vulnerabilities that are new that you need to be aware of, so let’s get to it and let you get back to work.

First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM Db2 Web Query for i is vulnerable to a remote attacker bypassing security restrictions or to denial of service, which you can read more about here. The fixes are as follows:
```
IBM Db2 Web Query for i 		Release		OS Release
5733WQX 		2.4.0		7.4 and 7.5
				SI85982
				SI85987
```
Second, we have Security Bulletin: …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 47

November 27, 2023 Doug Bidwell

Happy Belated Thanksgiving, welcome back to work, and pass the turkey and cranberry sauce leftovers if you don’t mind.

Speaking of leftovers, there are some new patches for IBM i 7.2, which were updated on November 14. You can check out SF99719 720 Group HIPER – level 237 at this link and SF99718 720 Group Security – level 126 at that link.

There is also a security vulnerability you need to be aware of, specifically Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK affect IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty due to the October 2023 …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 21

May 22, 2023 Doug Bidwell

As we report elsewhere in this week’s edition of The Four Hundred, there is a critical security vulnerability in the PowerVM hypervisor when it is running on Power9 and Power10 systems.

This HIPER/Pervasive patch is described as fixing this: An internally discovered vulnerability in PowerVM on Power9 and Power10 systems could allow an attacker with privileged user access to a logical partition to perform an undetected violation of the isolation between logical partitions which could lead to data leakage or the execution of arbitrary code in other logical partitions on the same physical server.

The Common Vulnerability and Exposure …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 49

December 7, 2022 Doug Bidwell

It is another one of those weeks when there are a slew of security vulnerabilities to attend to. Four that we know of, to be precise.

First, there is Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to a denial of service due to Google protobuf-java (CVE-2022-3171, CVE-2022-3509), which you can read more about at this link. This vulnerability affects IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty versions 21.0.0.2 through 22.0.0.12.

Second, there is Security Bulletin: ISC BIND on IBM i is vulnerable to denial of service due to memory leaks and a flaw in resolver code (CVE-2022-2795, CVE-2022-38177, CVE-2022-38178), …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 21

May 25, 2022 Doug Bidwell

Not to give you any work to do, but I am going to give you some work to do. There is a new service pack for system firmware level MH1010, and this service pack, which you can read about here, addresses a HIPER issue. Next, compression with the ZLIB algorithm with Geographic Mirroring synchronization is coming soon! You can find out more about it at this link. And finally, check out the infrastructure changes that are coming to IBM Electronic Fix Distribution / IBM Fix Central system, which might necessitate customer firewall and proxy setting changes, which you …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 35

September 9, 2019 Doug Bidwell

Good people of IBM i Land, in this latest edition of the IBM i PTF Guide you will see that there are new HIPERs and Security groups for all four of the operating system releases. If you are on V7R1, please read the HIPER cover letter – there are over 100 fixes that are not on the cume and lots of dependencies. Please read and heed! And note that the PTFs for vulnerabilities below are not in this new Security group!

There is a new DB2 for IBM i group for version 7.2, and a new version of MGTools …
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