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  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 27

    July 14, 2020 Doug Bidwell

    Welcome to the second half of 2020 after a brief holiday hiatus from The Four Hundred and therefore the IBM i PTF Guide.

    There is another new HIPER for the Virtual I/O Server, or VIOS, which again we know all of you IBM i shops love dearly. The HIPER is IJ25390, and it is for slow TCP performance with the Virtual Ethernet adapter and large send. Here is some more on that LSO – short for large send offload – and specifically a link that explains it better than we did two weeks ago, plus another link to a …

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  • 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

    This week’s tip …

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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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