• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 42

  October 23, 2019 Doug Bidwell

  Some weeks are slow, and some weeks we have lots to share. This is one of those busy weeks in PTF Land. First up, we have the following message to share: APAR MA47979 – INCORROUT – HLIC – 94XXDASD – HIPER. This Hard Disk drive code has a bug! You can read this link for details. It’s not on cume yet, but see the following fixing PTFs:

  • R710 MF66663
  • R720 MF66664
  • R730 MF66665
  • R740 MF66666

  We also learned at TechU there are new announcements with a planned Availability Date of November 16, so stay tuned.

  A Security Bulletin has popped …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 41

  October 16, 2019 Doug Bidwell

  We were busy at IBM Systems Technology University in Las Vegas last week and also had to chew through the Technology Refreshes for IBM i 7.3 and IBM i 7.4, so we are not our normal chatty selves here at the IBM i PTF Guide. Please do forgive.

  So what’s new, you ask? There are new HIPER groups on all four releases. Yes, even IBM i 7.1, with MF66663, which deals with hard disk issues. That’s enough excitement for one week, really.

  New (or Updated) Links this week: None this week, busily gleaning useful tidbits from TechU calls material! …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 40

  October 9, 2019 Doug Bidwell

  It’s time once again to peruse and ponder the updates Big Blue is making to the IBM i stack. As we report elsewhere, the Technology Refreshes have been announced for IBM i 7.3 and 7.4, which are coming out in the middle of November. And as always, there are some things to check out inside the IBM i PTF Guide for other stuff that is going on – and in this case, this was stuff that happened before the TRs were announced on Tuesday concurrent with IBM Systems Technology University, or TechU, being held in Las Vegas.

  The big warning …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Numbers 38

  September 25, 2019 Doug Bidwell

  It looks like the usual gang of PTF suspects are being rounded up for the latest batch of patches for the IBM i platform, plus a few extras thrown into the clink.

  These include:

  • SAP Support update for IBM i releases 7.4, 7.3, 7.2!
  • New groups for DB2 and DB2 Mirror at IBM i 7.4.
  • New Java group for IBM i 7.4, 7.3, 7.2, and 7.1.
  • New MGtools for 7.4, 7.3, and 7.2.
  • New IBM MQ for IBM i – V7.1.0/V8.0.0/V9.0.0 group for 7.3, and 7.2.

  There is not a lot in the way of New (Updated) Links this week, …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 35

  September 9, 2019 Doug Bidwell

  Good people of IBM i Land, in this latest edition of the IBM i PTF Guide you will see that there are new HIPERs and Security groups for all four of the operating system releases. If you are on V7R1, please read the HIPER cover letter – there are over 100 fixes that are not on the cume and lots of dependencies. Please read and heed! And note that the PTFs for vulnerabilities below are not in this new Security group!

  There is a new DB2 for IBM i group for version 7.2, and a new version of MGTools …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 34

  August 26, 2019 Doug Bidwell

  It’s still summer here in PTF Land, at least in the Northern Hemisphere, so there is not a lot of action right now. In this week’s episode of the IBM i PTF Guide, we have new SAP support info for the 7.4, 7.3, and 7.2 releases of IBM i and we also have a new Content Manager Group PTF SF99652 for 7.4 and updated groups for 7.3 and 7.2. You will also find updated Backup and Recovery Group for 7.4, 7.3, and 7.2.

  As for New (Updated) Links in this week’s Guide:

  • SSHD, RUNRMTCMD: Remote Command Execution from

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Numbers 32 And 33

  August 19, 2019 Doug Bidwell

  It’s “ketchup time” here at the IBM i PTF Guide, and we have two weeks of stuff lined up. So let’s just go through it in order and get you all current.

  In Number 32 of the Guide, there is a Security Bulletin for Vulnerabilities, which includes CVE-2019-0196, CVE-2019-0197, and CVE-2019-0220 in the IBM i operating system as it related to the HTTP Server. Here’s the link. Releases 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4 of IBM i are affected.

  • Release 7.2 – SI69901
  • Release 7.3 – SI69900 and SI69828
  • Release 7.4 – SI69187 and SI69189

  There is a new …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 31

  August 12, 2019 Doug Bidwell

  Here’s what’s new with PTFs for the IBM i platform here in the summer of 2019.  There are new HIPER PTFs for IBM i 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4 as well as a new Java Group for IBM i 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4. IBM has also released SF99675, which is a stack of Hardware and Related PTFs for IBM i 7.4. MGTOOLS is new for IBM i 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4, and finally MQ for IBM i V7.1.0/V8.0.0/V9.0.0 are updated for IBM i 7.2 and 7.3.

  Here are the New and Updated Links in the IBM i PTF Guide this …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 30

  August 5, 2019 Doug Bidwell

  It is definitely summer in IBM i PTF Land. There are a few things to report this week, but not the deluge it has been in prior weeks. There are updates to the Backup and Recovery Group for IBM i 7.4, 7.3 and 7.2, and the SAP 7.1 Final update. There is also a new MGTOOLS for all of the current releases.

  As for tips, August 1 was National Water Balloon Day, and we did not know there was such a thing. But it is the first Friday every August. Go figure. We will be going through new and updated …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 29

  July 22, 2019 Doug Bidwell

  We pay attention to bugs and fixes for the IBM i platform here at the IBM i PTF Guide, and we saw some information in Big Blue’s support databases about APARs – short for Authorized Program Analysis Reports – which is an official response from IBM when customers report a problem with a system or find a suspected defect. Not all APARs get PTFs or permanent fixes in subsequent releases, but many, of course, do.

  Here is the interesting set of statistics, which has the number of APARs by operating system release level:

  • 19,392 on V7R1
  • 11,383 on V7R2
  • 7,182

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