On October 9^th, 2023, the SAP Support Required PTF Lists, formerly known as Information APARs, have been updated to include new High Impact/Pervasive PTF Group levels with fixes for the most recent security bulletins and a few other individual PTFs for recently discovered problems.

The PTF lists can be found at the following links:

IBM i 7.3: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/sap-support-required-ptf-list-ibm-i-73
IBM i 7.4: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/sap-support-required-ptf-list-ibm-i-74
IBM i 7.5: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/sap-support-required-ptf-list-ibm-i-75

If you want to download the PTF lists to your SAP systems with the help of a program, take a look at our sample program and blog entry from July 18^th, 2022.

We recommend that you apply the current PTF levels for preventive maintenance whenever you are performing your next scheduled maintenance.

Please note: To improve overall system security, the SQL function QSYS2.PTF_INFO was recently changed so that users of the function must now have *USE authority for the command DSPPTF in order to execute this function. The PTF levels are listed at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1119273. By default, the SAP user profile <sid>ADM does not have *USE authority for this command.

When running on IBM i 7.3, the SAP code is using the function QSYS2.PTF_INFO to decide which CDS-related database features are already available on the current system. With the current PTFs applied, this may fail with messages:

BY2 Database: Database error -443 at EXE
BY0 Database: > SQL0443 (SQLSTATE 42501) - Routine Error on QDBSSUDF2: NOT
BY0 Database: > AUTHORIZED TO USE QSYS/DSPPTF (<nnnnnn>/<sid>ADM/WP<nn>)

If you see this error or as preventive measure, you can grant the necessary authority to the SAP user profiles, for example with the command:

GRTOBJAUT OBJ(QSYS/DSPPTF) OBJTYPE(*CMD) USER(R3GROUP) AUT(*USE)