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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 23

June 8, 2020 Doug Bidwell

Some weeks are crazy when it comes to PTF patches with IBM i, and some weeks are relatively quiet. And thankfully, after a particularly crazy couple of months in the world, the patch load is pretty light this week.

Here is the rundown by operating system release level:

PTF Groups 7.4:
- QMGtools
- SAP Support Required PTF List
PTF Groups 7.3:
- QMGtools
- SAP Support Required PTF List
PTF Groups 7.2:
- QMGtools
PTF Groups 7.1
- SAP Support Required PTF List
The new or updated links in the IBM i PTF Guide sheet this week are:
- System: Software Servers Table
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Guru: Introduction to the Administration Runtime Expert

June 1, 2020 Dawn May

Business-critical applications must be up and running reliably without failure. When something unexpected occurs, you must identify the cause and correct it quickly. Whether you’re a developer launching a new application, enhancing an existing application, or maintaining a legacy application, or an administrator managing the infrastructure, we all want to find ways to make our jobs easier, and unexpected surprises are not fun. I expect the relentless push to do more with less is only going to intensify while the tolerance for failure keeps dropping. Yet identifying points of failure can be tricky as complexities scale.

IBM i offers a …
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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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The Technology Refreshes That Are Not TRs As We Know Them

May 27, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

All of us have been expecting the Technology Refreshes – that is IBM i 7.3 TR8 and IBM i 7.4 TR2 – to come out on May 15. And when that didn’t happen, a bunch of us started scratching our heads a bit. Thus far, as we go to press, Big Blue has not put out a formal statement to customers about what is going on, but a number of big IBM i customers received a notification from somewhere up the chain of command about the situation, while at the same time, unbeknownst to many, IBM i chief architect Steve …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 21

May 27, 2020 Doug Bidwell

As we report elsewhere in this issue, there really is not going to be a Technology Refresh as we know it and as we were all lead to believe was coming for IBM i 7.3 and IBM i 7.4, but rather just a refresh of all the pertinent groups through the PTF process.

Also, IBM’s Entitled Systems Support (ESS) has finally finished shedding its old coat, and the new one contains current resaves and a new way of asking for things! So be aware of that and take a gander. Moreover, Domino links have changed, thanks to Michael Mayer in …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 20

May 20, 2020 Doug Bidwell

It has been a weird week in PTF Land. The respin of the operating systems is temporarily unavailable from IBM’s Entitled Systems Support and as far as we can tell the Technology Refreshes – that’s IBM i 7.3 TR8 and IBM i 7.4 TR2 – are not yet available. We are trying to get to the bottom of the issue. There’s something weird going on.

In the meantime, there are recommended High Availability fixes for IBM i 7.2., IBM i 7.3, and IBM i 7.4. There is also a Security Bulletin: Vulnerability CVE-2020-4345 in SQL that affects IBM i, 7.4, …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 19

May 13, 2020 Doug Bidwell

The big news this week in IBM i PTFs is that there is a new security bulletin that is out relating to Python that affects IBM i 7.2, IBM i 7.3, and IBM i 7.4. You can read about Security Bulletin: Vulnerability CVE-2020-8492 in Python at this link.

There are no new or updated links in the IBM i PTF Guide sheet this week, so steady as she goes on that front.

And now your weekly tip: Talk to people, take the extra time, we all need to talk to each other at this time.

The Guide at a …
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What’s New With Db2 Web Query?

May 11, 2020 Alex Woodie

Db2 Web Query, which is IBM’s strategic business intelligence tool for IBM i, doesn’t follow the same release cycle as the operating system itself. But as part of activity surrounding the latest round of Technology Refreshes (TR) for IBM i 7.3 and 7.4, IBM discussed the recent updates that it’s made to Db2 Web Query, along with new features that are due very soon.

To get the lowdown on the new Db2 Web Query features, we tuned into a recent presentation made by Doug Mack, IBM’s Db2 Web Query product manager. Mack presented a session with Db2 for i …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 18

May 6, 2020 Doug Bidwell

Hello good people of IBM i Land. This week, there are updates for Rational Developer for i Version 9.6.0.8, for all releases of IBM i. This has been an on again/off again dance with IBM, and we are not sure why Big Blue posted it a few weeks ago, then unposted it, and then reposted it. However, the updates for RDi are for real – and available this week!

Aside from that, it has been a pretty quiet week for PTFs in Lake Bugsbegone up in lovely Minnesota, the Land of Lakes, with no new groups for the two current …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 17

April 27, 2020 Doug Bidwell

Welcome to the next issue of the IBM i PTF Guide. There are updates for Rational Developer for i Version 9.6.0.8, and for all IBM i 7.X releases. We added an OS Resave column to Technology Refresh tab, since it turns out there was a resave on IBM i 7.3 last year that impacted PTFs. We need to keep track of that.

And, once again, just a reminder: The Technology Refreshes for IBM i 7.3 and IBM i 7.4 are not going to be available until the middle of May, so the IBM i PTF Guide will not reflect …
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