• IBM i PTF Guide, Number 20, Volume 29

  July 25, 2018 Doug Bidwell

  There’s not much to report this week in PTF Land. Even HIPERs, which should come out every two weeks, are overdue. But you can still check out the usual archive of the IBM i PTF Guide below to help you work through the PTFs in chronological order.

  This week wasn’t a total loss. I attended the Ocean Tech Conference, in Costa Mesa, California, where techno-nerds and old friends had great fun and learned a lot, too! Briefly, the new ACS tool is a work of art! Creating service programs is easier than ever, and the new PDM add-on for RDi …

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• RPM And Yum Are A Big Deal For IBM i. Here’s Why

  July 18, 2018 Alex Woodie

  By now you’ve probably heard about Yum and RPM, the new processes that IBM will use to deliver open source software to IBM i customers. But you may have questions about how the process works, and what the benefits will be. IT Jungle talked with IBM’s open source guru Jesse Gorzinski to get the low down on why the new tech is so important to the platform.

  RPM, which stands for Red Hat Package Manager, is a piece of software created more than 20 years that allows customers in that Linux community to more easily distribute and install the various …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Number 20, Volume 28

  July 18, 2018 Doug Bidwell

  Some weeks are crazier than others, and this is one of those weeks with the PTF Guide. We just checked in on PTF Land in Monday issue, but already there are more changes to report. Not the predicted deluge of PTFs we thought we might see, but there are some new HIPERs and WebQuery fixes you will want to look into. There are also a couple of new parms on the TELNET command to check out.

  Here is a look at the Temporary Disk Space Recommended fixes in V7R2:

  Date Added	Fixes			Product	Description
  03/01/2018	MF64483	5770999	Data base run-time 

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 25 And 27

  July 16, 2018 Doug Bidwell

  Somehow in the summer mix, we managed to skip IBM i PTF Guide number 25, so we are adding it to number 27 to get caught up. There will be another update on Wednesday, and then we will be all caught up. (It was a complicated month here at IT Jungle in July so far. We will leave it at that.)

  Let’s start with number 25. There is an SSL certificate change coming for your HMCs. Check this link for the details.

  On the IBM i Access Client Solutions front, check out the Readme File for 5733-XJ1. That’s Version: 1.1.8.0, …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 26

  July 9, 2018 Doug Bidwell

  We are running the IBM i PTF Guide in the Monday edition of The Four Hundred this week, just to keep you on your toes during our summer holiday schedule. There was a lot of stuff going on even with the July 4 holiday in the United States impending before we went to press.

  This week we have new Groups for HIPER and Java, and, a new version of QMGTOOLS, for all three releases. The Java groups for each release have significant vulnerabilities. The fixes are included in the latest Java group for each release:

  • Release 7.3 – SF99725 level

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• 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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