Welcome to Release Day 2024.1 

These pages are designed to give you highlights of the innovative new features now available within the latest versions of the solutions you rely on. The products you use on a daily basis fall within suites that solve similar business requirements. These suites fall into three major portfolios, Infrastructure Protection & Data Security, Intelligence & Automation, and IBM i & Additional products. This new structure has been created to build solutions that meet specific organizational needs, and ultimately create the best experience for our customers.

You'll notice a Fortra Release Rocket beside some release announcements, denoting a major release. Note that you'll still see timely bug fixes and minor releases throughout the year to provide you with the best usability and experience for your Fortra products. 

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The Latest from Powertech

Powertech is your security partner in managing evolving data privacy threats with automated solutions. Our solutions are designed to help you simplify security, so you can easily meet auditor demands and harden your system to protect your organization’s most valuable asset: your business-critical data. 

Recent product releases include:

  • Powertech Compliance Monitor for IBM i 4.3 
    • Added the ability to use a relative date, such as "30 days in the future" or "60 days in the past," as a filter on any date column in a report. 
    • Added the ability to send an email from the Batch Assessment without a link to report output files in the IFS instead of including outputs as attachments. 
    • Added support for audit journal entry types that are new in IBM i 7.5 and entry fields that have changed in IBM i 7.5, including: support for new entry types C3 (Advanced Analysis Configuration), FTP (FTP client operations), and many new and modified fields in existing entry types. 
    • Included the new QPWDLVL (password level) value 4 in the security policies. 
    • Added the new IBM i 7.5 field Max Sign-on Attempts to the User Profile reports. 
    • In system value reports, new values introduced in IBM i 7.4 for system value QSSLCSL, corresponding to TLS ciphers, are now supported. 
    • Fixes 
      • Fixed an issue with the Expiration Date on the User Profile reports. 
      • Fixed an issue where the Consolidator's Automatic Collection properties were not displaying correctly when viewing the endpoint's properties. 
      • Fixed an issue when the Assessment "Run Again" feature ran multiple assessments. 
      • Fixed an issue where the Default Password report was missing some profiles. 
      • The (T:VP) Network Password Errors report now includes the Long Computer Name field. 
      • Fixed a low-risk vulnerability issue regarding HTTP OPTIONS. 
      • Fixed an issue with the PT Category on the System Values by Category report. 
      • Fixed an issue where copying a batch assessment with object limits did not maintain the object limits. 
      • Fixed an issue with the System Values Side by Side report when the endpoint name contained periods. 
      • Fixed an issue with some dates not displaying correctly on the User Profile reports. 
      • Fixed an issue where the Exp Sch (Expiration Scheduled) column was not populating correctly.  
      • Fixed an issue on the System Value reports where the QPWDLVL and QSECURITY values were reporting the pending values instead of the current values. 
      • Fixed an issue where attempting to generate an encrypted password key resulted in an error. 
      • Fixed an issue where a report created by a batch assessment had the wrong date. 
      • Fixed an issue where the Collections and Available reports were not displaying the assessment. 
      • Fixed an issue where the (T:PW) User/Password Failures was showing "n/a" as the Profile Text. 
      • Fixed an issue where an Assessment is failing due to a MCH0601 Space Offset error. 
      • Fixed an issue where the Assessment was being emailed multiple times. 
      • Fixed an issue caused when updating from version 3.20 and attempting to remove a non-existing directory. 
      • Fixed an issue where history data was not being removed. Some systems may have a large amount of history data to purge, this may increase the initial time the Consolidator starts after an update. 
      • The description was missing from the Scorecard reports. This has been resolved. 
  • Powertech Multifactor Authentication 1.5.3 
    • Tomcat has been upgraded to 9.0.82 to alleviate security vulnerabilities. 
    • Resolved an ActiveMQ vulnerability logged under CVE-2023-44604. 
  • Powertech Encryption for IBM i 4.01 
    • The Field Encryption Configuration report (Option 22 on a Field Registry Entry) has been updated to include "Authorization list caching" option. 
    • Fixes: 
      • An issue that caused the backup of an incorrect file, when using the Translate File Field Keys (TRNFILKEYF) command, has been fixed. 
      • The issue that caused cut off error message text has been fixed. 
      • The Export Field Encryption Entry (EXPFLDENCE) command’s output has been updated to reflect all current parameters for a field encryption entry. 
      • A warning pop up containing an incorrect warning for IFS encryption exit point validation has been fixed. 
      • A potential security concern has been resolved. 
      • The issue that caused the Change Symmetric Key (CHGSYMKEY) command to error out has been fixed. 
      • Configuration reports, where key and keystore were not accurately reported, have been fixed. 
      • Error messages generated when using the Start RLA Sort Utility (STRRLASRT) command have been resolved. 
      • Help text information regarding IFS encryption algorithms has been improved. 
      • Fixed an issue that caused failures in active jobs after Live Partition Mobility was used to move a partition. 


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