• Yum, Liam Allan, and the Future of the Platform

  June 20, 2018 Alex Woodie

  It’s hard to believe, but Liam Allan has become a veteran at these things. He might be only 21 years old, but the young Englishman already has become a sought-after speaker on the IBM i event circuit and a respected voice for open source development. At COMMON’s recent POWERUp18 conference in San Antonio, Texas, Allan elaborated on Yum’s arrival on IBM i, his own open source work, and the future of the platform.

  Allan first appeared on the IBM i scene two years ago, when he won the 2016 COMMON Student Innovation Award for his work on the IBM i …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 24

  June 20, 2018 Doug Bidwell

  Rochester, we have a problem. The statement below is copied directly from an IBM notice. I did not want any confusion about its contents. The SFTP services are showing up in some places already, but not everywhere. We will let you know where and when as we are informed.

  IMPORTANT: Planned changes to ECuRep upload and download server.
  • All ECuRep servers will be requiring IBM ID authentication, soon. Please make sure that you own an IBM ID and that your processes will be able to use IBM ID authentication instead of anonymous log-in. (https://www.ibm.com/account/us-en/signup/register.html)
  • We will discontinue the 

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 22

  June 11, 2018 Doug Bidwell

  We are jumping around a bit this summer, so bear with us. We are running in both the Monday and the Wednesday editions of The Four Hundred this week to get caught up after a hiatus last week of the Wednesday issue. The news tends to be light in the summer, as you all know, so we often consolidate to one publication a week. This is particularly true after COMMON. Er, PowerUp 18.

  So here is what is going on. The Spectre/Meltdown (SM) PTFs have been rolled into the latest Security Group level for IBM i 7.3, 7.2, and …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 20

  May 23, 2018 Doug Bidwell

  Hello good people of IBM i Land. We are back in the Wednesday edition of The Four Hundred, our usual home, but during the summer the IBM i PTF Guide may end up at the tail end of the Monday edition of the newsletter depending on the vacation schedule for the Wednesday edition. The news tends to be light in the summer, as you all know, so we often consolidate to one publication a week.

  In any event, there is not much going on with IBM i and related systems software in terms of patches. This stands to reason …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 19

  May 14, 2018 Doug Bidwell

  We like to keep you on your toes here at the IBM i PTF Guide, and this week we are popping up at the tail end of the Monday edition of The Four Hundred instead of the usual Wednesday edition. This will happen from time to time, as the publishing schedule for the newsletter changes, so don’t get nervous. The IBM i PTF Guide and The Four Hundred carry on, as always.

  So, without further ado, let’s get to the patches. First up, V7R3 has a new DB2 Group – with a whopping 94 PTFs added. (Whew! Somebody’s …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 18

  May 9, 2018 Doug Bidwell

  We’ve got some new HIPER’s and Security group PTFs to share with you this week, plus we’ve added a few new links for your review. If you haven’t looked at the links tab in the guide before, make sure you take a peek. There is some good stuff out there.

  First up, there are several Temporary disk Space Recommended PTFs for V7R3 and V7R2, and of course we would advise it is always a good thing to put those on.

  V7R3	MF64447	SQE temporary storage allocation
  	MF64487	Database runtime temporary segment growth
  	SI67332	QDBRRCDL & QDBRJBRL API storage leak
  	SI67421

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 17

  May 2, 2018 Doug Bidwell

  This week’s PTF Guide brings us a Security Bulletin from IBM. There are multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL (5733-SC1) that affect the IBM i. Check this link for details on the recommended PTFs. A list of all PTFs available for OpenSSL can be found here.

  In other news, there is one situation where CPYFRMIMPF fails to convert a .csv file to a database file. You can see the details and the fix here.

  Use our archive of the IBM i PTF Guide below to help you work through the PTFs in chronological order:

  April 28, 2018: Volume 20, Number …

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• Multiple Security Vulnerabilities Reported In IBM i

  April 30, 2018 Alex Woodie

  IBM this month revealed an array of security vulnerabilities across IBM i middleware components, including OpenSSL, DHCP, and Java products. Most of the flaws were given a “high severity” rating, and all of them have been patched.

  This week’s security fun starts with DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), which is used to automate the management and distribution of IP addresses within a network. According to the April 26 IBM security bulletin, IBM i 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 are vulnerable to a pair of security vulnerabilities in the underlying DHCP protocol.

  The first DHCP flaw, which is identified as CVE-2018-5732 …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 16

  April 30, 2018 Doug Bidwell

  Yes, we normally put the IBM i PTF Guide in the Wednesday edition of The Four Hundred, but there was some changes in the publication schedule and so we are running the latest edition here on Monday. We will have the follow-on Volume 20, Number 17 in the Wednesday edition this week as normal.

  First of all, I made a typo a few weeks back (the current cume on V7R3 is 8025, not 8205), and a few of you caught it. Thank you for the catch, and for letting me know!

  Ok, so let’s get started with the meat …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 15

  April 18, 2018 Doug Bidwell

  Hello fellow residents of IBM i Land. (You know that know man is an iLand, right? Anyway . . . .) In this week’s edition of the IBM i PTF Guide, the Java group was updated on all releases. Now that HTTP Admin is converting to JDK 8, if you are running Java applications – and who isn’t running Java applications these days at least some of the time – this is worth checking out.

  See the following in the IBM i PTF Guide:

  • V7R3 SF99725
  • V7R2 SF99716
  • V7R1 SF99572

  Another warning: IBM i Access for Web, product …

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