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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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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 37

September 19, 2018 Doug Bidwell

The Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution vulnerabilities are the gift that keeps on giving in terms of security worries and hurried patches, and this week in the IBM i PTF Guide is yet another demonstration of this fact.

See this link for full details on the new fixes, and check the tab in the Guide for SpectreMeltdown, which is new new.

There are new fixes for PEX and Job Watcher on V7R3, check here for details.

The Tech Refreshes are out, finally, for V7R3 and V7R2. Check the TR tab in the Guide for further information.

Links this week: …
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