• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 13

  March 30, 2020 Doug Bidwell

  We hope everybody is keeping safe during the coronavirus outbreak. The PTFs are a-rolling again, and that means the IBM i PTF Guide is updated to keep you up to speed.

  The first new thing is that there is a Direct URL for Access to Digital Certificate Manager. For example: http://9.5.123.234:2001/QIBM/ICSS/Cert/Admin/qycucm1.ndm/main0.

  There are updates to the primary IBM i releases that still get patched, as follows:

  PTF Groups 7.4:

  • Java
  • Backup Recovery Solutions
  • WebSphere App Server V8.5
  • Content Manager OnDemand for i
  • SAP Support Required PTF List

  PTF Groups 7.3:

  • Java
  • Backup Recovery Solutions
  • WebSphere App Server V8.5
  • Content

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 12

  March 23, 2020 Doug Bidwell

  It is a quiet in IBM i PTF Land this week, and that is to be expected with the coronavirus outbreak finally – and very regretfully but not unexpectedly – making its way around the global. But we will continue to put out the IBM i PTF Guide like clockwork because keeping mission critical systems up to date and humming along is more important than ever, even if the volume of business for most companies is, at this point with few exceptions, hard to guess.

  We are here to help, and if you run into trouble on your systems because …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 11

  March 16, 2020 Doug Bidwell

  It is hard to say what effect the coronavirus outbreak will have on the release of PTFs for the several IBM i releases in the field, and the regular pattern of updates that customers are used to. But so far, things are operating as normal, and there have been some updates. This being software and not requiring travel by any parties – and indeed, systems could be remotely patched by administrators working from home if need be.

  And here is the rundown by IBM i release:

  PTF Groups 7.4

  • SAP support required PTF list
  • MQ for IBM i – v9.0.0/v9.1.0

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 10

  March 11, 2020 Doug Bidwell

  Hello fellow IBM i-ers, and a good PTF patching day to you. The new thing that hit this week is an updated microcode for Machine-Type Models: 5148-21L; 5148-22L; 8247-21L; 8247-22L; 8247-42L; 8284-21A; 8284-22A; 8286-41A; 8286-42A; 8408-44E; and 8408-E8E. This includes System Firmware Level: SV860_215, which fixes a known HIPER issue. See this link for details.

  And here is the rundown by IBM i release:

  PTF Groups 7.4

  • Temporary Storage PTFs

  PTF Groups 7.3

  • Temporary Storage PTFs

  PTF Groups 7.2

  • Nothing here, nothing at all

  PTF Groups 7.1

  • Nothing here to see here, either

  New (or Updated) Links this week: …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 9

  March 2, 2020 Doug Bidwell

  There is rarely a week that there isn’t something going on with PTF patches for the IBM i operating system, its integrated database, and the whole stack of software wrapping around that operating system. This would be one of those normal weeks, where there is nothing too crazy going on but there is stuff to pay attention to.

  We also had a leap year Saturday for the IBM i PTF Guide, which doesn’t happen very often. The Gregorian calendar has a 400-year – well, 146,097-day – cycle, and of these days, there are 97 days that correspond to February …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 8

  February 26, 2020 Doug Bidwell

  We are back in synch again this week with the IBM i PTF Guide, and I am going to offer you a bit of personal advice just to get things going: Drink lots of water, every day. You will not regret it later in your life, trust me on that one. Coffee and tea and beer and wine don’t count nearly as much as cool, clear, clean tap water. Maybe herbal tea is alright.

  Now, let’s get on with the rundown by IBM i release:

  PTF Groups 7.4

  • Backup Recovery Solutions

  PTF Groups 7.3

  • Backup Recovery Solutions

  PTF …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 6

  February 12, 2020 Doug Bidwell

  Alright people, the big news for the week is that Rational Developer for i, version 9.6.0.7, has just been released. Other than that, it has been relatively quiet on the PTF front. There are some nips and tucks for the three releases that are still being supported.

  They are as follows:

  PTF Groups 7.4

  • SAP support requited PTF list for IBM i

  PTF Groups 7.3

  • SAP support requited PTF list for IBM i

  PTF Groups 7.2

  • SAP support requited PTF list for IBM i
  • Temporary Storage PTFs

  PTF Groups 7.1

  • Nothing to see here, move along. . . .

  New …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 5

  February 3, 2020 Doug Bidwell

  Another day, another dollar. Another week, another batch of PTF patches for the IBM i stack.

  So here is what has gone down. There are multiple vulnerabilities in the IBM Java SDK and the IBM Java Runtime that affect the IBM i platform. Fixes for the vulnerabilities are contained in current Java PTF group for all four releases. IBM recommends that all users running unsupported versions of affected products upgrade to supported and fixed versions of affected products.

  Here is the rundown of the patches this week, by release.

  PTF Groups 7.4:

  • HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
  • SAP Support Required PTF List

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 4

  January 27, 2020 Doug Bidwell

  Hello once again from the IBM i PTF Guide. We hope that your 2020 is off to a great start, and that you are keeping up to date with your PTFs on your particular release of the IBM i platform. Big Blue is still releasing patches for IBM i 7.1, and even though it will be withdrawing sales and marketing for IBM i 7.2 on April 30 of this year, it will be patching this release of the operating system and database for quite some time to come, as we talked about in The Four Hundred back in June …

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• Google Launches Power Systems Cloud, But Not Yet for IBM i

  January 22, 2020 Alex Woodie

  Google last week officially unveiled IBM Power Systems for Google Cloud, a new infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering that will allow customers to run AIX, Linux, and IBM i workloads and manage it from their familiar Google Cloud accounts. Google says that AIX and Linux are ready to go, but says that IBM i customers will have to wait just a little longer to get in on the cloud action.

  The general availability of IBM Power Systems on Google Cloud has been years in the making. Google was one of the earliest enrollees in IBM’s Open Power initiative, and …

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