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Re: Learning about PTFs for things you care about

I've not followed this whole thread, so please forgive me if this has been mentioned already.

Has anyone mentioned recommended PTFs? They often are not included in cumes or group PTFs.

So, is their a subscription one can make to getting notice of these?

Regards
Vern

On 2/17/2016 8:10 AM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:
Well, here's 2 good examples of notifications, received these yesterday.
These stood out because of the subject.
The SI59101 PTF appeared on Feb 4th cover letter.

Now the JV1 PTFs are another story. I'm on V7R1, but because 5761JV1 is V6R1, I missed these because I don't check V6R1 PTFs.
So in this case, the notification gained my attention.

90% of PTFs can be applied immediately, without an IPL, but IBM doesn't recommend this, can cause issues. From past experience, I've had issues applying large amounts of PTFs immediate. However, applying few at a time immediate, never had issues.

1. IBM i

- TITLE: Security Bulletin: IBM i is affected by networking BIND vulnerabilities.
- URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1021134&myns=ibmi&mync=E&cm_sp=ibmi-_-NULL-_-E
- ABSTRACT: ISC BIND is vulnerable to several security vulnerabilities.

1. IBM i

- TITLE: Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in IBM Java SDK affect IBM i (CVE-2015-7575).
- URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1021133&myns=ibmi&mync=E&cm_sp=ibmi-_-NULL-_-E
- ABSTRACT: There is a vulnerability in IBM(r) SDK Java (TM) Technology Edition that is used by IBM i. This vulnerability, commonly referred to as "SLOTH", was disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in January 2016.


Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Oberholtzer
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 12:57 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Learning about PTFs for things you care about

Paul is correct the notifications do lag a small bit, but keep in mind most folks have limited windows to apply PTFs (which still requires an IPL way too often) so I wonder if the daily notifications is really all that important, since they can only IPL once a month, or at most once a week. I have customers that can only IPL twice a year.

I find the daily ones to be more than sufficient. If we are working on a specific problem, then searching the PSPs is worth the time. In the end it's about allocation of resources and the daily notifications is usually sufficient.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Steinmetz, Paul <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Forgot to mention, the notifications are several days behind,
sometimes over a week.
Checking PTF cover letters by date link is more up to date.

Paul

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rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 9:11 AM
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Subject: RE: Learning about PTFs for things you care about

And Paul got my question 2 answered...


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From: "Steinmetz, Paul" <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'"
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Date: 02/16/2016 09:07 AM
Subject: RE: Learning about PTFs for things you care about
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Aaron,

I use the same link.

IBM has a service, called IBM My Notifications.
Emails are sent daily.
You need to initially select what you want to be notified for.
It is also by i5/OS release level.

Manage your My notifications subscriptions, or send questions and
comments.
- Subscribe or Unsubscribe -
https://www.ibm.com/support/mynotifications

Paul



-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Aaron Bartell
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 9:00 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Learning about PTFs for things you care about

How do others keep up with knowing when PTFs come out for things they
care about? For example, I now use this link (n1) (thanks Rob) to
review PTFs but I'd much prefer to have a notification sent to my
inbox whenever PTFs for 5733OPS, 5770SS1 opt 33, 5733SC1 are released.

n1 - http://www-912.ibm.com/a_dir/as4ptf.nsf/WWWPTFBYDATE?OpenView

What I would love is if IBM offered a public web service that conveyed
PTFs. Then I could do an If-This-Then-That (ifttt.com). Is such an
IBM web service available?

Thanks,
Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i
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