• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 7

  February 17, 2025 Doug Bidwell

  How secure you feeling today? Well, IBM i is generally pretty rock solid, but you have to stay on top of the security vulnerabilities. And there are two of them that are new this week.

  First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM Java SDK and IBM Java Runtime for IBM i are vulnerable to a partial denial of service and a JNI function returning incorrect value length due to multiple vulnerabilities. You can find out more about this issue at this link, and here are the patches for it:

  IBM i Release                         PTF Group

  7.5                                             SF99955 Level 13

  7.4                                             SF99665 …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 6

  February 10, 2025 Doug Bidwell

  It is a quiet week as far as security vulnerabilities go, so if you are in North America, or you like American football, we hope you enjoyed Super Bowl LIX and know that there is nothing too serious you need to handle right now with your IBM i system. There are some new HIPERs and patches to Java and the Apace Web server.

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

  PTF Groups 7.5:

  • HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
  • Java
  • IBM HTTP Server for i

  PTF Groups 7.4:

  • HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
  • Java
  • IBM HTTP

  …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Numbers 3 And 4

  January 27, 2025 Doug Bidwell

  We are finally getting back into synch between The Four Hundred and the IBM i PTF Guide, and with this week’s issue numbers 3 and 4, you will be all caught up.

  In Number 3, dated January 18, we note that IBM has put out the latest service pack 950.D0 for system firmware levels VL950, VM950, and VH950, which you can read all about here. The updates are available for the following Power9 machines:

  • Power System S914 (9009-41G)
  • Power System E950 (9040-MR9)
  • Power System E980 (9080-M9S)
  • Power System H922 (9223-22H)
  • Power System H922 (9223-22S)
  • Power System H924 (9223-42H)

  …

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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 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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