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New Nav Makes Progress, But Still Not Caught Up with Old Nav

October 26, 2022 Alex Woodie

The Technology Refreshes have brought IBM closer to completing the transition to the new Navigator from the old Navigator product, which is susceptible to the Log4j security vulnerability. While the advances in IBM i 7.5 TR1 and 7.4 TR7 will help customers, the new Navigator product will still not be at feature parity with old Nav when the plug is pulled on the heritage product at the end of the year.

IBM has been encouraging its IBM i customer base to accelerate its adoption of the new Navigator, which debuted just over a year ago with the introduction of IBM …
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Inside IBM i’s New Geospatial Functions For Db2

October 24, 2022 Alex Woodie

One of the more interesting elements of the recent IBM i Technology Refreshes is the addition of Watson-based geospatial functions to the Db2 for i relational database. According to IBM, the new capabilities will make it simpler and easier to incorporate advanced geospatial functions into IBM i applications.

As its name implies, Db2 for i’s new geospatial functions allow people to compute data that has a geographical aspect to it. In this case, the geographical data takes the form of latitude and longitude readings on the Earth, and the functions provide ways to manipulate those points (as well as lines …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 43

October 24, 2022 Doug Bidwell

We are happy to report that there are no new security vulnerabilities in the IBM i stack and related open-source software this week – at least as far as we know. So, rejoice in that. There are a bunch of HIPER PTFs and fixes for Java that span the current IBM i releases on support and extended support, so be aware of those.

And just a reminder to keep checking out The Four Hundred in each issue as we drill down into new details related to the Tech Refreshes announced this month, and that are coming in December.

Now, here …
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Doing Disaster Recovery Planning Right For Your IBM Power Iron

October 19, 2022 Jason Hardy

As I was writing this article, I saw this in my LinkedIn news feed, according to Axios.com: “billion-dollar weather disasters now happen once every 18 days.” My perception was that the United States was getting more frequent significant weather events and it turns out that data from the National Weather Service backs that up.

Now add in hardware/software failures, cyber security events and local disasters (fire, water damage, power outages) and it makes sense that disaster recovery is one of the top challenges facing CIOs today. If this is a topic you are contemplating, here are a few questions to …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 42

October 17, 2022 Doug Bidwell

The hot news this week, which we have reported about previously and which we will be drilling down into more deeply, is that the Fall 2022 Tech Refresh updates for IBM i have been announced and will be generally available on December 2. The theme from IBM is “Let’s create a new level of integrated simplicity,” and you can see more about IBM i 7.5 Technology Refresh 1 at this link and more about IBM i 7.4 Technology Refresh 7 at that link.

Keep checking out The Four Hundred as we drill down into new details related to the …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 41

October 10, 2022 Doug Bidwell

Just a reminder in case you didn’t see it last week: End of Marketing for IBM i 7.3 is 4/28/23 and end of standard support for IBM i 7.3 is 9/30/23. You can read IBM’s support statement about it here and you can see our related coverage on it there.

Also: QMGTOOLS and FTP Credentials required for Enhanced Customer Data Repository (ECuRep), find out more at this link.

Now, 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
- MustGather: How To Obtain and Install
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 40

October 3, 2022 Doug Bidwell

It’s the fall now, and in the wake of the September IBM i announcements, upgrade season has begun. Now, we will see if companies are in a mood to upgrade before the end of the year or will push it out into 2023.

This week, we want to let you know that QMGTOOLS and FTP Credentials required for Enhanced Customer Data Repository (ECuRep), which you can find out more about here.

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

PTF Groups 7.5:
- IBM MQ for IBM i – v9.2.0/v9.3.0
- TCP/IP
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 39

September 26, 2022 Doug Bidwell

Another week, another security vulnerability. This one could be a biggie, so pay attention. Security Bulletin: IBM Common Cryptographic Architecture (CCA) is vulnerable to denial of service (CVE-2022-22423), which you can find out more about here. The vulnerability can be fixed by applying a PTF to IBM i. Releases 7.5, 7.4, 7.3, and 7.2 of IBM i will be fixed. Each PTF bundles updates to CCA 5.x MTM for 4767 and CCA 7.x MTM for 4769, bringing their respective firmware levels to 5.7.12 and 7.3.44 or later, respectively.

Here are the fixes for this particular vulnerability:
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 38

September 19, 2022 Doug Bidwell

It is a quiet week for PTFs, with two security vulnerabilities for the IBM i platform and not much else.

We will start with Security Bulletin: Samba for IBM i is vulnerable to attacker obtaining sensitive information due to a memory leak with SMB1 requests (CVE-2022-32742), which you can find out more about at this link. Here are the fixes:
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IBM i Release	5770-SS1	PTF Number	
                7.4		SI80816	
                7.3		SI80815
```
And then there is Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty for IBM i is vulnerable to identity spoofing with authenticated user and ability to bypass security restrictions due …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 37

September 14, 2022 Doug Bidwell

Some weeks are loud and noisy, like cats fighting, when it comes to IBM i PTFs, and some weeks are quiet, like mice trying to avoid the notice of the cats. This week is one of those quiet ones, albeit still with High Impact/Pervasive patches and Security patches for all four current IBM i releases.

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
- MustGather: How To Obtain and Install QMGTOOLS
PTF Groups 7.4:
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
- Security
- MustGather: How To Obtain and Install QMGTOOLS
PTF …
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