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  • IBM To Stop Unencrypted Fix Downloads In February

    November 28, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    We have caught word from the IBM business partner community that starting on February 15, 2023, Big Blue will stop allowing customers to get operating system software patches that are not encrypted.

    The notification, which you can see here, was sent to business partners on November 23, just before the Thanksgiving Day holiday in the United States. Various IBM support methods, including IBM Electronic Fix Distribution (EFD), IBM Electronic Customer Care (ECC), and IBM Fix Central are all affected by this change.

    “Many leaders of the internet industry – such as World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Internet Engineering Task …

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