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PTF and Service

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    Provide a tool Admins can use to review PTF cover letters for Special and Activation Instructions

    Currently there is no tool available to assist Admins when reviewing PTF cover letters prior to loading and installing PTF's. This would be helpful as there are thousands of PTF's in a typical deployment. It is impossible to review each cover lett...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 2 Submitted

    Have possibility to download PTFs via https

    Hello, in our company we are forbidden to use java web start as it was marked as vulnerability and FTP connection is being slowly banned out as well. Would there be option (same as for fixes for other IBM products like storage etc) to use https fo...
    4 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

    Warn customers before Defective PTFs are applied

    Customers often download CUMEs or HIPERs well before they plan to apply them. During the interim, one or more PTFs may be marked defective, but the system allows the PTFs to be applied without warning customers. The following scenario is a possibl...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

    Size decrease when downloading PTFs Groups

    Hello, My idea is simple. When downloading PTF group images, we would have option to upload some kind of PTF output file (which will tell fix central which PTFs are already on IBM i partition) which will be than processed on fix central and make d...
    4 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

    QMGTOOLS Option to Compare/Order Cross Reference PTFs Before an OS Upgrade

    In QMGTOOLS option 24, PTF menu, can IBM add an option to compare/order cross-reference PTFs when planning for an OS upgrade, like from 7.4 to 7.5?
    8 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

    Add the description of the PTF is the summary of PTF groups, cumulative, etc...

    When you are about to install a PTF group is nice to check which are the PTFs it includes, especially if you want to solve a certain problem. Also is good to check between 2 different groups to check why something works with one group PTF and not ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Under review

    Group PTF apply date

    Keeping IBM i up-to-date is becoming more and more important when you look at today's threads. (Just think of December 2021 and the log4j issue.)As a result of that reporting when an IBM LPAR was protected also becomes more and more important for ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 8 Future consideration

    When using GO PTF option 8, have a splash screen before options menu to remind review of PTF instructions such as cume

    When using GO PTF opt 8 a splash screen comes up before the options menu that states if doing a major PTF update (such as cume and groups) to review the cume instructions and make sure any pre-req steps which are part of the cume instructions are ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 1 Future consideration

    WRKPTFGRP vs. DSPPTFGRP

    The service below requires the user to be authorized to the WRKPRTGRP. But the service only list information not changing anything, so why not only require authorization to DSPPTFGRP? Improvement suggestion to IBM… SELECT CURRENT SERVER CONCAT ' i...
    10 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

    Clarification of the Technology Refresh

    The following is the screen text for the PTF package apply for a special handling or a Technology Refresh PTF pack. Confirm IPL to Complete PTF InstallSystem: DATA1A technology refresh PTF and/or special handling PTF requires an initialprogram loa...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 3 Future consideration

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