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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 33

August 15, 2022 Doug Bidwell

First up, IBM has tweaked its temporary additional use policy for Power Systems software for migrations to Power E1080, Power E1050, and Power S1024 servers. You can read about it here.

Here is the significance of this. When you do an upgrade, you get 70 days from install to use the systems software for free. That can be extended once for 40 days, and then that can be extended again, once, for 3 days. After that, you have to beg for more if you need more time to do the upgrade. IBM doesn’t care about partitions, it’s the host …
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Multiple Security Vulnerabilities Patched on IBM i

June 22, 2022 Alex Woodie

In recent weeks, IBM has disclosed a handful of vulnerabilities in its IBM i operating system and related IBM i products, including Db2 Mirror, WebSphere, Navigator for i, the Java development and runtime tools, and OmniFind Text Search Server. IBM has shipped PTFs for the security problems, which range in severity from medium to high.

IBM warned of security holes in the HTTP Server (the one powered by Apache) in a June 13 security bulletin. The flaws, identified as CVE-2022-22720 and CVE-2022-22721, carry the risk of a HTTP request smuggling that could poison the Web cache, bypass firewalls, and …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 23

June 8, 2022 Doug Bidwell

Welcome to this week’s edition of the IBM i PTF Guide. We start out with a correction to the Technology Refresh tab in the spreadsheet, where the “LIC Resave” values that were for 7.4 TR6 and 7.3 TR12 were based on an IBM site that was itself incorrect. That site has since been corrected, and now we have corrected the information in the sheet. Many thanks to Jeff at IBM for catching this!

And now, a bevy of Security Bulletins – four different vulnerabilities that affect the IBM i platform, to be specific.

First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 22

June 1, 2022 Doug Bidwell

Well, there is a lot of stuff going on with IBM i PTFs this week, with cumulative patch rollups, or Cumes as we call them, Technology Refreshes, and other goodies. Specifically, IBM i 7.3 and IBM i 7.2 have Cume rollups, as well as their respective TR6 and TR12 updates of new functionality.

There are also two new security vulnerabilities. First, there is Security Bulletin: IBM Navigator for i is vulnerable to an SQL injection (CVE-2022-22495), which you can read about at this link. The patches for this vulnerability are as follows:
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 20

May 18, 2022 Doug Bidwell

It was busy last week in the world of PTFs, but this week it is pretty quiet, excepting a few things. Which is good, because maybe you are not quite yet caught up anyway, right? It has been a long four years since we have new machines to play with, and we’re looking forward to getting our hands on IBM i 7.5 and, more importantly, seeing what kind of machines and deals that IBM will be making with the Power10 machines in July.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last published, with …
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Springing Anew: IBM i Tech Refresh Expected Soon

April 13, 2022 Alex Woodie

If you’ve been waiting for the spring IBM i Technology Refreshes, you’re not alone. We’re nearly a month into spring, but IBM has yet to embark upon the bi-annual pilgrimage of operating system enhancements. The good news is that the good news is nearly here.

“Big IBM i Announcements Coming Soon,” Steve Will, the chief architect of IBM i, wrote in 22.5 point font on his “You and i” blog, which was recently resurrected on TechChannel, the online successor to the now-defunct IBM Systems Magazine, where his column ran for years.

“It’s time to hint at things that …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 5

February 2, 2022 Doug Bidwell

Another week, another security vulnerability. This time, there is one in the Db2 stack for IBM i. Specifically, we present to you Security Bulletin: IBM Db2 Mirror for i is vulnerable to denial of service due to gson 217225, which you can read in full at this link. As the Db2 Mirror database clustering technology is only available on IBM i 7.4, this is the only IBM i release that is affected.

The IBM i Group PTF number containing the fix for this vulnerability follows: Release 7.4 – SF99668 level 17.

Just a reminder that there is a new …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 46

November 17, 2021 Doug Bidwell

If you are on older releases of IBM i 7, you are getting a breather this week when it comes to PTF patches for your systems. There just ain’t a lot going on, and in the operating system and security world, you take that as a win. Those of you on the IBM i 7.4 release, you have a few things to think about but it is fairly straightforward and related to the Db2 for i database and for those of you who have it, the Db2 Mirror for i database clustering software.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups …
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IBM i 7.3 And 7.4 Get Their Autumn Tech Refreshes

October 9, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Big Blue is hosting its IBM Systems Technical University this week, and used the occasion to quietly launch the Technology Refreshes, or TRs as they are known, for IBM i releases 7.3 and 7.4. If you were running around the Venetian Hotel, you could probably stitch together the extent of the updates to the platform, and to be honest, we are still trying to get all of the details, which were not available as we went to press.

We will tell you what we know now, and then circle back and drill down into the details as appropriate.

First of …
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