• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 1

  January 10, 2022 Doug Bidwell

  While we were away on holiday, the Log4J and Log4Shell vulnerabilities hit the enterprise systems of the world, including the IBM i platform. So right off the bat here with the first edition of The IBM i PTF Guide in 2022, we want to point you to Big Blue’s Log4j/Log4Shell on IBM i update, which will help you figure out if you are vulnerable. See more at this link.

  Here are the Security Bulletins for this:

  Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-44228) affects Power HMC V9

  Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-44228) affects Power HMC V8

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• Thoroughly Modern: Time To Develop Your IBM i HA/DR Plan For 2022

  December 6, 2021 Josh Osborne

  Disasters and unplanned downtime can hit any company at any time – regardless of where its applications or data sits. Establishing a high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) plan is paramount to getting your mission critical IBM i applications and your business back up and running – fast!

  2021 saw its fair share of challenges. Everything from bush fires to earthquakes to flash floods, and the continuation of the pandemic. And, those are just the ones mother nature sent our way. The manmade risks in the form of cyberattacks and ransomware also grew exponentially in 2021. With over 30,000 security …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 48

  December 6, 2021 Doug Bidwell

  It is a fairly light week for PTF patches for the IBM i platform, so we are going to go off the board a little bit here in the IBM i PTF Guide this week. Winter is coming and while plenty of us love this season, or all four of them, some of us are not happy when the snow flies.

  Well, after watching this video here, which you should do when you actually have 18 minutes and 49 seconds to really pay attention, you will never look at snowflakes quite the same way again. An amazing hobby from …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 47

  December 1, 2021 Doug Bidwell

  We hope you enjoyed a few days off over the Thanksgiving holiday if you’re here in the U.S., but we never sleep here in IBM i PTF Land and it’s time to get back to business. If you haven’t been keeping up on your PTFs, now is a good time to get caught up. Don’t let it lapse into the New Year, we promise you’ll feel better when it is done. This week, there is not too much to worry about, just a few HIPERs you should review. Read on to get the latest, and be sure to utilize the …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 46

  November 17, 2021 Doug Bidwell

  If you are on older releases of IBM i 7, you are getting a breather this week when it comes to PTF patches for your systems. There just ain’t a lot going on, and in the operating system and security world, you take that as a win. Those of you on the IBM i 7.4 release, you have a few things to think about but it is fairly straightforward and related to the Db2 for i database and for those of you who have it, the Db2 Mirror for i database clustering software.

  Here is the rundown of PTF Groups …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 45

  November 10, 2021 Doug Bidwell

  Don’t get hyper, but there are new High Impact/Pervasive PTFs that you need to take a look at for the supported releases of the IBM i platform. Those are HIPERs in the IBM lingo. There are also some patches for Temporary Storage PTFs that you also need to be aware of.

  Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:

  PTF Groups 7.4:

  • HIPERs
  • Temporary Storage PTFs

  PTF Groups 7.3:

  • HIPERs
  • Temporary Storage PTFs

  PTF Groups 7.2:

  • HIPERs

  PTF Groups 7.1:

  • Nothing going on here, as is typical but not always true.

  New (or Updated) Links for …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 44

  November 3, 2021 Doug Bidwell

  Here is to hoping that all of you enjoyed the Halloween weekend, which is the unofficial beginning of the holiday season here in the United States at least. Mercifully, this has been a quiet week on the PTF front. Don’t get used to it. The situation never stays this way for very long. Variety, like the colors of the leaves and the seasons of the year, is the stuff of life.

  Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:

  PTF Groups 7.4:

  • MQ for IBM i – v7.1.0/v8.0.0/V9.0.0/V9.1/V9.2
  • QMGTOOLS

  PTF Groups 7.3:

  • MQ for IBM i

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• IBM to Resell DSI’s VTL In Its IBM i Cloud

  November 1, 2021 Alex Woodie

  IBM last week announced that it is now reselling Dynamic Solutions International (DSI)’s virtual tape library (VTL) technology with its IBM i cloud offering. By running DSI Restore in its Power Virtual Server, IBM is giving its public cloud customers another option for backing up and recovering data sets of all sizes.

  DSI Restore is a Linux-based VTL solution designed specifically to back up and recover IBM i environments of varying sizes. It’s based on DSI’s popular VTL appliance, and emulates LTO drives while integrating with common backup and recovery tools for IBM i, such as BRMS, HelpSystems Robot/SAVE, …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 43

  October 27, 2021 Doug Bidwell

  It’s time for another security alert. Check out Security Bulletin: IBM Java SDK and IBM Java Runtime for IBM i are affected by CVE-2021-2369 and CVE-2021-2432, which you can see at this link. Here are the patches by release:

  • Release 7.4 – SF99665 level 12
  • Release 7.3 – SF99725 level 23
  • Release 7.2 – SF99716 level 33
  • Release 7.1 – SF99572 level 47

  Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:

  PTF Groups 7.4:

  • HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
  • Backup Recovery Solutions

  PTF Groups 7.3:

  • Backup Recovery Solutions

  PTF Groups 7.2:

  • Backup Recovery Solutions

  PTF Groups 7.1: …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 42

  October 20, 2021 Doug Bidwell

  It’s a mixed bag for Program Temporary Fixes, or PTFs, for the supported releases of the IBM i operating system, with some tweaks here and there and some High Impact/Pervasive, or HIPER, patches coming out for IBM i 7.4 and IBM i 7.3.

  A relatively quiet week is a good thing about this time of the year, with the fall season underway and everyone gathering up strength to do push through the final two months of the year once Halloween gets here. (That is a line of demarcation, isn’t it?) We are not expecting a lot in the way of …

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