• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 14

  April 8, 2025 Doug Bidwell

  If you need a little something to wake you up, or a little night reading before you  drift off to sleep, check out the Known Issues And Fix Information database at Big Blue for the IBM platform, which you can see here. The IBM i PTF Guide is meant to save you from having to be familiar with this, of course. But it can’t hurt to be aware of this database.

  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
  • Backup Recovery Solutions
  • Content Manager

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 13

  April 2, 2025 Doug Bidwell

  Good day, good people of IBM i Land. This week we start out with two security vulnerabilities and a known issue to beware of the BLOB!

  Let’s start with the security vulnerabilities.

  First we have Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to a denial of service due to Netty (CVE-2025-25193), which you can find out more about at this link. IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty versions 21.0.0.2 through 25.0.0.3 are affected.

  Second, we have Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to a denial of service due to Apache CXF (CVE-2025-23184), and here is …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 12

  March 24, 2025 Doug Bidwell

  In this week’s IBM i PTF Guide, we contemplate the SF99741 patch and the following note from IBM:

  Recent change to contents – IBM Db2 Mirror for i (SF99668 Group PTF) has been removed from the order.

  Description:  This PTF group includes all PTF groups for the current IBM i release except the Cumulative PTF Package PTF group and WebSphere MQ PTF group. The PTF groups are included by listing them as related PTF groups. Use option 9 (Display related PTF groups) on the Work with PTF Groups (WRKPTFGRP) command to display the included PTF groups. Each time you order …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 11

  March 17, 2025 Doug Bidwell

  Last week was a busy week for PTF patches, but not for security vulnerabilities. And this week is even quieter, but there are new defective PTF reports this week that you need to keep an eye on, as is usually the case in most weeks.

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

  PTF Groups 7.5:

  • None

  PTF Groups 7.4:

  • MQ for IBM i – v9.0.0/v9.1.0/v9.2.0/v9.3.0

  PTF Groups 7.3:

  • None

  Tip O’ The Week: We are thinking.

  New (or Updated) links added to the ‘Links’ tab in The Guide this week:

  • None

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 10

  March 10, 2025 Doug Bidwell

  There are new PTF group updates for the current releases of IBM i – that would be 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 – but not much in the way of the occasional weirdness we see in the software stack or the never-ending stream of security vulnerabilities. Take it while you can get it. . . .

  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
  • IBM MQ for IBM i – v9.2.0/v9.3.0
  • PowerHA Tools for IBM i – Full System FlashCopy (FSFC)
  • PowerHA Tools for IBM i

  …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 9

  March 3, 2025 Doug Bidwell

  If you are using Rational Developer for i to create applications and your company uses the Singularity endpoint manager from SentinelOne, then you might be having an issue.

  According to this notice from IBM, after updating Windows 11 to 24H2, Rational Developer for i 9.8.0.3 may be ended abruptly by SentinelOne. IBM adds: “There may be a Java dialogue left showing “Java was started but returned exit code=-1073741571” and the Windows event viewer will show that the problem happened in ntdll.dll.” The temporary workaround is to revert to Windows 11 23H2 or whitelist RDI in SentinelOne until IBM figures …

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• 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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