IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 44

October 30, 2023 Doug Bidwell

Last week was busy, and this week is quiet when it comes to PTFs. With the release of Technology Refreshes coming out starting to roll out next week, this stands to reason.

Now, a note about the ESS Outage. Due to extensive infrastructure upgrades, the ESS website and all of its components, including Base Composer and Cloud Management Console functions, will be fully unavailable from November 3, 2023, at 11 a.m. UTC until November 6, 2023, at 3 a.m. UTC.

Now, there is also a security vulnerability, which you can read about in Security Bulletin: IBM i is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation due to flaws in Management Central (CVE-2023-40685, CVE-2023-40686). You can find out more in this link.

IBM i Release	5770-SS1 
7.5	SI84794
7.4	SI84792
7.3	SI84791
7.2	SI84788
IBM i Release	5770-SS1 Option 3
7.5	SI84787
7.4	SI84784
7.3	SI84783
7.2	SI84782

Just a reminder: The SF99719 720 Group HIPER – level 236 is available at this link, and the SF99718 720 Group Security – level 125 is available at this link.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last published:

PTF Groups 7.5:

None

PTF Groups 7.4:

None

PTF Groups 7.3:

None

Tip O’ The Week: IBM System Planning Tool for Power Systems. Find more at this link.

New (or Updated) links added to the ‘Links’ tab in the guide this week:

DCM (All): What is a Wildcard Certificate? (Digicert), N/A

New (or Updated) links added to the ‘QMGtools’ tab in the guide this week:

QMGTOOLS: Installation Manager Collector for IBM i (IMCOL), 672636

New (or Updated) links added to the ‘ACS_NAV’ tab in the guide this week:

DCM: How to Backup/Migrate/Replicate my Digital Certificate Management (DCM) Environment?, 6614285

New (or Updated) links added to the ‘Prtr Links’ tab in the guide this week:

Nothing

New (or Updated) links Redbooks added this week:

Nothing

The Guide at a glance: There are new defectives this week (10/28/23). Here is the defective PTF rundown, which is the last defective for each release:

	Defect		Defective	APAR	Fixing
	Date		PTF			PTF
	--------	--------	-------	------------------------	
7.5	10/06/23	SI84569		SE80598	xxxxxxx (When available)
7.4	10/06/23	SI84583		SE80598	SI84817 (When available)
7.3	10/06/23	SI84586		SE80598	SI84842 (When available)

Be sure to access the link in the Guide for further details.

Below is the usual archive of the IBM i PTF Guide to help you work through the PTFs in chronological order:

October 28, 2023: Volume 25, Number 44

October 21, 2023: Volume 25, Number 43

October 14, 2023: Volume 25, Number 42

October 7, 2023: Volume 25, Number 41

September 30, 2023: Volume 25, Number 40

September 23, 2023: Volume 25, Number 39

September 16, 2023: Volume 25, Number 38

September 9, 2023: Volume 25, Number 37

September 2, 2023: Volume 25, Number 36

August 26, 2023: Volume 25, Number 35