• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 36

  September 12, 2022 Doug Bidwell

  Let’s get right into it. There are PDF transform issues with IBM i 7.5. This issue was encountered by our friends in San Diego: Thank you, Nancy, for sharing! They were receiving “Transformation task cancelled due to a print fidelity error” when converting from SCS to PDF. IBM issued the following PTFs to fix the issue:

  PTF ID                                  
  SI79773	 5770SS1  
  SI79689  5770TS1
  SI79684  5770TS1
  

  Now, let’s turn to Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in IBM Java SDK affects IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty due to July 2022 CPU plus deferred CVE-2021-2163. You can see more at this …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 35

  August 29, 2022 Doug Bidwell

  Hello good people of IBM i Land. To start off, a reminder that the Memo To Users for supported releases were last updated April 2022. Clients should review the full “What’s New” details to understand recent changes and impact these may have. See the Links tab in the guide to access the Memo for your release, and, check periodically. these should be considered living documents, meaning, they evolve over time, and as such, read frequently!

  Also, ADMIN2 is back at 7.5! IBM turned it off at earlier releases to mitigate the log4j vulnerability in those releases. At V7R5 GA, the …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 34

  August 22, 2022 Doug Bidwell

  New defective PTFs – meaning PTFs to fix bugs in PTFs that should not be there to fix bugs in software that should not have been there in the first place – issued this week by IBM, and we are only now seeing that you could have been misinterpreting the meaning of “defective PTFs” all of these years. It is to fix defects in PTFs, as some of you might not be thinking. Language is not as good at communication as we sometimes give it credit for. There is always some ambiguity in the packets that are exchanged when two …

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• IBM Puts The Finishing Touches On PowerHA For IBM i 7.5

  August 15, 2022 Alex Woodie

  If you have been waiting to use the new release of PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM i 7.5, then we have good news for you: IBM has finally completed the paperwork necessary to enable customers to actually get it.

  Unless you have a soft spot in your heart for IBM product IDs and feature codes (we know you’re out there), the August 9 software announcement doesn’t have a whole lot of actionable information. IBM says that it has updated the product “with the necessary product IDs and feature codes to complete the required ordering and upgrade structure,” which is IBM-speak for …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 33

  August 15, 2022 Doug Bidwell

  First up, IBM has tweaked its temporary additional use policy for Power Systems software for migrations to Power E1080, Power E1050, and Power S1024 servers. You can read about it here.

  Here is the significance of this. When you do an upgrade, you get 70 days from install to use the systems software for free. That can be extended once for 40 days, and then that can be extended again, once, for 3 days. After that, you have to beg for more if you need more time to do the upgrade. IBM doesn’t care about partitions, it’s the host …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 32

  August 8, 2022 Doug Bidwell

  It has been a very quiet week on the PTF front for IBM i, which is a good thing after several weeks of lots of security vulnerabilities and other tweaks to the system.

  Just a reminder that we have moved V7R1M0 from the weekly update to the archive. Anything new we are informed of that impacts IBM i 7.1, we will post here in the What’s NEW! Section at the top of the story. Also, if you have any IBM i 7.1 requests going forward, we will do our best to provide responses for. Thank you for your readership and …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 31

  August 3, 2022 Doug Bidwell

  As often happens with systems software these days, there are a bunch of new security vulnerabilities with the IBM i stack that you need to be aware of.

  First, there is Security Bulletin: OpenSSL for IBM i is vulnerable to arbitrary command execution (CVE-2022-2068), which you can find out more about at this link. The IBM i PTF numbers contain the fix for the vulnerability:

  IBM i Release	5733-SC1	PTF Number
  7.5		SI80588
  		7.4, 7.3, 7.2	SI80587
  

  Then there is Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to Identity Spoofing (CVE-2022-22476), which you can find out more …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 30

  July 25, 2022 Doug Bidwell

  Just to keep you on your toes, we have to catch you up on a recent Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (CVE-2022-22477), which you can find out more about here. IBM WebSphere Application Server 9.0 and IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 are both affected by this security vulnerability. This vulnerability follows five vulnerabilities in last week’s issue.

  Please note that we will be moving V7R1M0 from weekly update to archive. Anything new we are informed of that impacts IBM i 7.1, we will post here in the What’s NEW! Section at the top …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 29

  July 20, 2022 Doug Bidwell

  Please note that we will be moving V7R1M0 from weekly update to archive. Anything new we are informed of that impacts IBM i 7.1, we will post here in the What’s NEW! Section at the top of the story. Also, if you have any IBM i 7.1 requests going forward, we will do our best to provide responses for. Thank you for your readership and support!

  To begin with, there are Save and Restore Enhancements for IBM i 7.5, which you can find out more about here. RSTUSRPRF USRPRF(*ALL) no longer requires a dedicated system. The progress message displayed …

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• More IBM i Security Flaws Revealed

  July 13, 2022 Alex Woodie

  The summer slowdown might have started in your particular business, but things are just getting warmed up IBM security researchers, who disclosed a series of new vulnerabilities across IBM i products over the past couple of weeks, including IBM i Merlin, WAS Liberty, OpenSSL, the Digital Certificate Manager, and Zlib.

  On June 27, IBM disclosed that the collection of open source and proprietary tools and technology it’s brought together as IBM i Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration (Merlin) suffers from no fewer than 16 separate security flaws.

  Among the most series of these flaws is a CVE-2022-22965, a data binding …

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