• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 26

  June 30, 2021 Doug Bidwell

  Attention all IBM i shops. You may not be aware of it, but FTP is changing to FTPS/SFTP (secure) before the end of June or in early July 2021. (It’s not clear.) All orders submitted just prior to the change will be removed.

  Also, many thanks to Ron Schmitz for the IMGCLG link that I added to the IBM i PTF Guide sheet this week, which you will see below in its usual place.

  And finally, for those of you who are in the United States, happy July 4^th holiday, and for those of you who are not, why …

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• Don’t Forget About The Co-Lo Alternative To Cloud

  June 21, 2021 Jim Kandrac

  Cloud is a consumption model, not a panacea. And for a lot of customers, moving some of their applications – or even all of them – to the cloud is something to consider. It might even possibly be the right move, right now. But for many customers who are committed to their applications and therefore to their IBM i platform, the best and lowest cost way to get infrastructure to support those applications is still to put machinery on premises or to have it installed in a co-location facility.

  The numbers bear this out, and as we pointed out before …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 25

  June 21, 2021 Doug Bidwell

  It was a relatively quiet week from IBM on the PTF patching front, and so we have used to the time to do a whole lot of tweaks to the links in the IBM i PTF Guide, which have a bunch of new and updated links embedded in the Excel spreadsheet as you will see from the list below and from the sheet itself.

  But first, you know the order of operations that we stick to every week, so here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:

  PTF Groups 7.4:

  • MGTools

  PTF Groups 7.3:

  • MGTools

  …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 24

  June 14, 2021 Doug Bidwell

  Don’t get hyper this week, but the big thing happening in IBM i Land is a set of high impact and pervasive, or HIPER, PTF patches to all four current variants of the IBM i operating system. There are also tweaks to storage PTFs and for the MQSeries message queueing middleware that runs on various platforms from Big Blue, including IBM i.

  Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:

  PTF Groups 7.4:

  • HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
  • Temporary Storage PTFs
  • MQ for IBM i – v9.0.0/v9.1.0/V9.2.0

  PTF Groups 7.3:

  • HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
  • Temporary Storage PTFs
  • MQ for

  …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 22

  June 9, 2021 Doug Bidwell

  We are playing a little catch up after the Memorial Day holiday here in IBM i PTF Land. It was fairly quiet over the holiday weekend, with a set of PTF updates for the Hardware Management Console. To be specific, take a look at PTFs MH01889 and MH01890, which are an interim fix, or ifix as IBM calls them, for HMC V9 R2 M951 running on virtualized X86 or Power servers, respectively. See this link for more information.

  Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:

  PTF Groups 7.4:

  • DB2 Web Query for i V2.2.1
  • Content

  …

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• Keeping Up With Open Source Security Updates

  May 26, 2021 Alex Woodie

  Open source is a source of technological innovation on IBM i, in multiple respects. But it also opens the platform up to additional security vulnerabilities. That’s why it’s important to stay on top of security patches, for the core operating system as well as the open source technologies that are helping to transform it.

  IBM does a good job of keeping up with security vulnerabilities are found in the operating system as well as the multitude of open source technologies that are included with it. In the last five weeks, IBM has issued several security bulletins for core open source …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 21

  May 26, 2021 Doug Bidwell

  Hello everyone. First, a reminder. Our apologies, ACS 1.1.8.7 is the most current version of ACS, and is not being pulled in favor of 1.1.8.8. Assumptions were made at the case level that were later resolved and not communicated to us. Again, our apologies. The current version if you apply the fix will read “TESTFIX_1.1.8.7” in the Help/About. If you download the ZIP file, the Help/About will read “1.1.8.7 Build 1170” if it includes the fix.

  Here is a link to the document that tells you how to do this and here is the link to the patch itself. …

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• Guru: How To Acquire The IBM i Administration Runtime Expert Product And PTFs

  May 17, 2021 Dawn May

  In past articles about the Administration Runtime Expert, I mentioned that you install the ARE licensed program product on your central system, but I never documented steps on how you acquire the 5733-ARE program product. I apologize for this oversight since, as it turns out, obtaining ARE is not immediately obvious.

  To get the 5733-ARE product, you must log into the IBM Support website and go to your Entitled Systems Support page. Under My Entitled Software, select Software Downloads. You need to select your system that is entitled to IBM software, the category of IBM i, and then …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 20

  May 17, 2021 Doug Bidwell

  As The Four Hundred reported last week, there is a major bug in Access Client Solutions 1.1.8.7. Our apologies, ACS 1.1.8.7 is the most current version and is not being pulled in favor of 1.1.8.8, as we originally said last week and then corrected. Assumptions were made at the case level that were later resolved and not communicated to us. Again, our apologies, but IBM bears some responsibility for the lack of communication, too.

  The current version if you apply the fix will read “TESTFIX_1.1.8.7” in the Help About document. If you download the Zip file, the Help About …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 19

  May 10, 2021 Doug Bidwell

  As The Four Hundred reported last week, there is a major bug in Access Client Solutions 1.1.8.7. We originally said that IBM was pulling it and replacing it soon with ACS 1.1.8.8. We were expecting it last week, but it did not happen. Since this story ran, IBM has said that customers moving to ACS 1.1.8.7 should do so and then call into IBM and get a patch called TESTFIX_1.1.8.7  and apply it. Here is a link to the document that tells you how to do this and here is the link to the patch itself. This is …

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