• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 26

  July 6, 2020 Doug Bidwell

  Well, we made it through half of 2020, and that is something of a miracle. Let’s hope the second half is not so dramatic. The odds are not favoring that at the moment, but hope springs eternal and that is how we have made it through the past 15,000 years of pre-history to today, if you think about it. It’s helpful to take the long view at critical times.

  As far as PTFs go, there is a new HIPER for the Virtual I/O Server, or VIOS, which we know all you IBM i shops love. The HIPER is IJ25390, and …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 25

  June 24, 2020 Doug Bidwell

  We’ve got some movement this week on the PowerHA front – new PTFs are available! Get more information here.

  	
  7.2 PowerHA (for IBM i 7.2 and 7.3)	SI73520
  7.4 PowerHA				SI73521
  

  Also, don’t miss this fix: MF67243 – IPL-SRCB6005122-UNPRED SYSTEM HALT DURING IPL TO APPLY PTFS

  This isn’t a HIPER yet, but, sometimes you just have to put these on. Sometimes a fix lets you put on other fixes and this is one of those.

  Security Bulletin: OpenSSL for IBM i is affected by CVE-2020-1967

  5733-SC1	7.1 – SI73429
  		7.2, 7.3 & 7.4 – SI73430
  

  Security Bulletin: …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 24

  June 15, 2020 Doug Bidwell

  Another week, and another security bulletin for vulnerabilities in open source software. This time, it is CVE-2020-1927 and CVE-2020-1934 in Apache HTTP Server that affect IBM i. You can read more about it at this link. The PTFs that fix it are:

  • Release 7.4: SI73415
  • Release 7.3: SI72840
  • Release 7.2: SI72748

  Here is the rundown by operating system release level:

  PTF Groups 7.4:

  • HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
  • IBM MQ for IBM i – V7.1.0/V8.0.0/V9.0.0

  PTF Groups 7.3:

  • HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
  • IBM MQ for IBM i – V7.1.0/V8.0.0/V9.0.0

  PTF Groups 7.2

  • Nothing to see here.

  PTF Groups 7.1

  • Nothing to see

  …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 23

  June 8, 2020 Doug Bidwell

  Some weeks are crazy when it comes to PTF patches with IBM i, and some weeks are relatively quiet. And thankfully, after a particularly crazy couple of months in the world, the patch load is pretty light this week.

  Here is the rundown by operating system release level:

  PTF Groups 7.4:

  • QMGtools
  • SAP Support Required PTF List

  PTF Groups 7.3:

  • QMGtools
  • SAP Support Required PTF List

  PTF Groups 7.2:

  • QMGtools

  PTF Groups 7.1

  • SAP Support Required PTF List

  The new or updated links in the IBM i PTF Guide sheet this week are:

  • System: Software Servers Table

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• Guru: Introduction to the Administration Runtime Expert

  June 1, 2020 Dawn May

  Business-critical applications must be up and running reliably without failure. When something unexpected occurs, you must identify the cause and correct it quickly. Whether you’re a developer launching a new application, enhancing an existing application, or maintaining a legacy application, or an administrator managing the infrastructure, we all want to find ways to make our jobs easier, and unexpected surprises are not fun. I expect the relentless push to do more with less is only going to intensify while the tolerance for failure keeps dropping. Yet identifying points of failure can be tricky as complexities scale.

  IBM i offers a …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 22

  June 1, 2020 Doug Bidwell

  First of all, thanks to the readership of the IBM i PTF Guide for catching errors and other issues in last week’s edition. We have fixed a reference to V7R3 defectives. And the number for the V7R3 cume is happening in the future, we cleaned that up, too.

  There is a New Group – TCP/IP for 7.4 – see the link in the Guide for details. Note: This group has not been added to SF99741 (All Groups) yet and it must be ordered separately.

  There is also updated microcode for Machine-Type Models: 9008-22L; 9009-22A; 9009-41A; 9009-42A; 9223-22H; 9223-42H (System Firmware …

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• The Technology Refreshes That Are Not TRs As We Know Them

  May 27, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  All of us have been expecting the Technology Refreshes – that is IBM i 7.3 TR8 and IBM i 7.4 TR2 – to come out on May 15. And when that didn’t happen, a bunch of us started scratching our heads a bit. Thus far, as we go to press, Big Blue has not put out a formal statement to customers about what is going on, but a number of big IBM i customers received a notification from somewhere up the chain of command about the situation, while at the same time, unbeknownst to many, IBM i chief architect Steve …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 21

  May 27, 2020 Doug Bidwell

  As we report elsewhere in this issue, there really is not going to be a Technology Refresh as we know it and as we were all lead to believe was coming for IBM i 7.3 and IBM i 7.4, but rather just a refresh of all the pertinent groups through the PTF process.

  Also, IBM’s Entitled Systems Support (ESS) has finally finished shedding its old coat, and the new one contains current resaves and a new way of asking for things! So be aware of that and take a gander. Moreover, Domino links have changed, thanks to Michael Mayer in …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 20

  May 20, 2020 Doug Bidwell

  It has been a weird week in PTF Land. The respin of the operating systems is temporarily unavailable from IBM’s Entitled Systems Support and as far as we can tell the Technology Refreshes – that’s IBM i 7.3 TR8 and IBM i 7.4 TR2 – are not yet available. We are trying to get to the bottom of the issue. There’s something weird going on.

  In the meantime, there are recommended High Availability fixes for IBM i 7.2., IBM i 7.3, and IBM i 7.4. There is also a Security Bulletin: Vulnerability CVE-2020-4345 in SQL that affects IBM i, 7.4, …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 19

  May 13, 2020 Doug Bidwell

  The big news this week in IBM i PTFs is that there is a new security bulletin that is out relating to Python that affects IBM i 7.2, IBM i 7.3, and IBM i 7.4. You can read about Security Bulletin: Vulnerability CVE-2020-8492 in Python at this link.

  There are no new or updated links in the IBM i PTF Guide sheet this week, so steady as she goes on that front.

  And now your weekly tip: Talk to people, take the extra time, we all need to talk to each other at this time.

  The Guide at a …

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