We recently upgraded to V7R5 (IBMi)  and applied the latest Java Group PTFs - Level 15 as part of that upgrade.. During testing, we discovered that anything using Java 11 would fail to start due to not being able to create a JVM. After opening a ticket with IBM - they acknowledged that this is currently a "known problem" and supplied a TEST PTF that resolved the issue . They also pointed us to this KB doc outlining the problem including a potential workaround as well. 

IBM i Java Development Kit 11 64 bit VMs Fail with UnsatisfiedLinkError After IBM i Java Group PTF Apply

This issue impacts 7.4 and 7.5 Java 11 (64 bit) ONLY for Groups 28 and 15 respectively. 

My suggestion is that if you are currently using or have JAVA 11 installed on a V7R4 or V7R5 and are planning to apply the latest GROUP PTFs for that release, read the above KB doc to avoid any disruption to your applications/processes. 

Ran into the same issue -  Fortra GOANYWHERE stopped running.    Is the test PTF public?  If so,  please provide the number.     Also,   reinstalled JAVA 11 and fixed the problem,   however trying to find the PTFs for Group level 14. 

We recently upgraded to V7R5 (IBMi)  and applied the latest Java Group PTFs - Level 15 as part of that upgrade.. During testing, we discovered that anything using Java 11 would fail to start due to not being able to create a JVM. After opening a ticket with IBM - they acknowledged that this is currently a "known problem" and supplied a TEST PTF that resolved the issue . They also pointed us to this KB doc outlining the problem including a potential workaround as well. 

IBM i Java Development Kit 11 64 bit VMs Fail with UnsatisfiedLinkError After IBM i Java Group PTF Apply

This issue impacts 7.4 and 7.5 Java 11 (64 bit) ONLY for Groups 28 and 15 respectively. 

My suggestion is that if you are currently using or have JAVA 11 installed on a V7R4 or V7R5 and are planning to apply the latest GROUP PTFs for that release, read the above KB doc to avoid any disruption to your applications/processes. 

Hi Rick - No, the TEST PTF (s) are not Public and IBM is still 'tweaking' them. They respun the ones they gave me so this is still ongoing for sure. Did you try removing the PTFs they identified as causing the issue associated with level 15? 

Ran into the same issue -  Fortra GOANYWHERE stopped running.    Is the test PTF public?  If so,  please provide the number.     Also,   reinstalled JAVA 11 and fixed the problem,   however trying to find the PTFs for Group level 14. 

We recently upgraded to V7R5 (IBMi)  and applied the latest Java Group PTFs - Level 15 as part of that upgrade.. During testing, we discovered that anything using Java 11 would fail to start due to not being able to create a JVM. After opening a ticket with IBM - they acknowledged that this is currently a "known problem" and supplied a TEST PTF that resolved the issue . They also pointed us to this KB doc outlining the problem including a potential workaround as well. 

IBM i Java Development Kit 11 64 bit VMs Fail with UnsatisfiedLinkError After IBM i Java Group PTF Apply

This issue impacts 7.4 and 7.5 Java 11 (64 bit) ONLY for Groups 28 and 15 respectively. 

My suggestion is that if you are currently using or have JAVA 11 installed on a V7R4 or V7R5 and are planning to apply the latest GROUP PTFs for that release, read the above KB doc to avoid any disruption to your applications/processes. 

Rich, I wondered why Rick didn't just try removing the offending PTF also.  Perhaps it forced itself to perm.  Or the offending PTF was superceeded by another PTF which wasn't much better but got itself perm applied that way.  Or, Rick just 'oopsed' and perm applied everything.  What he did to resolve it was effective for a high stress situation.

Hi Rick - No, the TEST PTF (s) are not Public and IBM is still 'tweaking' them. They respun the ones they gave me so this is still ongoing for sure. Did you try removing the PTFs they identified as causing the issue associated with level 15? 

Ran into the same issue -  Fortra GOANYWHERE stopped running.    Is the test PTF public?  If so,  please provide the number.     Also,   reinstalled JAVA 11 and fixed the problem,   however trying to find the PTFs for Group level 14. 

We recently upgraded to V7R5 (IBMi)  and applied the latest Java Group PTFs - Level 15 as part of that upgrade.. During testing, we discovered that anything using Java 11 would fail to start due to not being able to create a JVM. After opening a ticket with IBM - they acknowledged that this is currently a "known problem" and supplied a TEST PTF that resolved the issue . They also pointed us to this KB doc outlining the problem including a potential workaround as well. 

IBM i Java Development Kit 11 64 bit VMs Fail with UnsatisfiedLinkError After IBM i Java Group PTF Apply

This issue impacts 7.4 and 7.5 Java 11 (64 bit) ONLY for Groups 28 and 15 respectively. 

My suggestion is that if you are currently using or have JAVA 11 installed on a V7R4 or V7R5 and are planning to apply the latest GROUP PTFs for that release, read the above KB doc to avoid any disruption to your applications/processes. 

I have no issue on which path people take to resolve a problem - I'm just curious as to whether that option did indeed work if he tried it. I opted to try the TEST PTF given that the machine in question is only a TEST system used by my immed team. The TEST PTF route perm applied the PTFs IBM suggested removing so when the TEST ones didn't work - I was "stuck" until IBM can determine why the TEST PTF(s) didn't work. In the end - I had to remove both TEST PTFs and then just apply ONE of them which resolved the issue. Then...just for transparency sake here, IBM respun the TEST PTFs and had me try again..unfortunately, that put me right back to not working... So..I removed both TEST PTFs and simply reapplied ONE of them and that resolved it...for now..until they get respun or something..lol

Rich, I wondered why Rick didn't just try removing the offending PTF also.  Perhaps it forced itself to perm.  Or the offending PTF was superceeded by another PTF which wasn't much better but got itself perm applied that way.  Or, Rick just 'oopsed' and perm applied everything.  What he did to resolve it was effective for a high stress situation.

Hi Rick - No, the TEST PTF (s) are not Public and IBM is still 'tweaking' them. They respun the ones they gave me so this is still ongoing for sure. Did you try removing the PTFs they identified as causing the issue associated with level 15? 

Ran into the same issue -  Fortra GOANYWHERE stopped running.    Is the test PTF public?  If so,  please provide the number.     Also,   reinstalled JAVA 11 and fixed the problem,   however trying to find the PTFs for Group level 14. 

We recently upgraded to V7R5 (IBMi)  and applied the latest Java Group PTFs - Level 15 as part of that upgrade.. During testing, we discovered that anything using Java 11 would fail to start due to not being able to create a JVM. After opening a ticket with IBM - they acknowledged that this is currently a "known problem" and supplied a TEST PTF that resolved the issue . They also pointed us to this KB doc outlining the problem including a potential workaround as well. 

IBM i Java Development Kit 11 64 bit VMs Fail with UnsatisfiedLinkError After IBM i Java Group PTF Apply

This issue impacts 7.4 and 7.5 Java 11 (64 bit) ONLY for Groups 28 and 15 respectively. 

My suggestion is that if you are currently using or have JAVA 11 installed on a V7R4 or V7R5 and are planning to apply the latest GROUP PTFs for that release, read the above KB doc to avoid any disruption to your applications/processes. 

Ran into the same issue -  Fortra GOANYWHERE stopped running.    Is the test PTF public?  If so,  please provide the number.     Also,   reinstalled JAVA 11 and fixed the problem,   however trying to find the PTFs for Group level 14. 

We recently upgraded to V7R5 (IBMi)  and applied the latest Java Group PTFs - Level 15 as part of that upgrade.. During testing, we discovered that anything using Java 11 would fail to start due to not being able to create a JVM. After opening a ticket with IBM - they acknowledged that this is currently a "known problem" and supplied a TEST PTF that resolved the issue . They also pointed us to this KB doc outlining the problem including a potential workaround as well. 

IBM i Java Development Kit 11 64 bit VMs Fail with UnsatisfiedLinkError After IBM i Java Group PTF Apply

This issue impacts 7.4 and 7.5 Java 11 (64 bit) ONLY for Groups 28 and 15 respectively. 

My suggestion is that if you are currently using or have JAVA 11 installed on a V7R4 or V7R5 and are planning to apply the latest GROUP PTFs for that release, read the above KB doc to avoid any disruption to your applications/processes. 

Thank you Rick!  I've been on GoAnywhere to get off of Java 11 so I can upgrade to IBM i 7.6.  This just adds more fuel to the fire.

I'm on Java Group 14.

Name                 Size       Owner        Changed 
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ilstCUME750.txt           384K  ROB          06/18/25
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QIMGCLG                   288K  QSECOFR      06/18/25

Ran into the same issue -  Fortra GOANYWHERE stopped running.    Is the test PTF public?  If so,  please provide the number.     Also,   reinstalled JAVA 11 and fixed the problem,   however trying to find the PTFs for Group level 14. 

We recently upgraded to V7R5 (IBMi)  and applied the latest Java Group PTFs - Level 15 as part of that upgrade.. During testing, we discovered that anything using Java 11 would fail to start due to not being able to create a JVM. After opening a ticket with IBM - they acknowledged that this is currently a "known problem" and supplied a TEST PTF that resolved the issue . They also pointed us to this KB doc outlining the problem including a potential workaround as well. 

IBM i Java Development Kit 11 64 bit VMs Fail with UnsatisfiedLinkError After IBM i Java Group PTF Apply

This issue impacts 7.4 and 7.5 Java 11 (64 bit) ONLY for Groups 28 and 15 respectively. 

My suggestion is that if you are currently using or have JAVA 11 installed on a V7R4 or V7R5 and are planning to apply the latest GROUP PTFs for that release, read the above KB doc to avoid any disruption to your applications/processes. 

Thank you Rob, for pushing Fortra for getting GoAnywhere off of Java 11. This is a real showstopper for upgrading to IBM i 7.6.

I just removed the PTF's 

SJ05893 - JDK1164 25_02 IBM Technology for Java
SJ05889 - JAVA-RUN JDK11 11.0.27+6 IBM Technology for Java

from our IBM i 7.5 systems, and then GA ran fine again.

Java 11 is quite old and not widely used, AFAIK. Would it even be possible to downgrade to Java 8 (for upgrading to 7.6)? I would hate to do it, but if it's the only option...

Best regards,

Christian

Thank you Rick!  I've been on GoAnywhere to get off of Java 11 so I can upgrade to IBM i 7.6.  This just adds more fuel to the fire.

I'm on Java Group 14.

Name                 Size       Owner        Changed 
ftpCUME750.txt              8K  ROB          06/18/25
ilstCUME750.txt           384K  ROB          06/18/25
sha256.txt                  8K  ROB          06/18/25
BR2S4247.TXT               16K  ROB          06/18/25
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CUME750_5.bin       3,817,472K  ROB          06/18/25
CUME750_6.bin       3,538,944K  ROB          06/18/25
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JS1S1613.TXT               16K  ROB          06/18/25
JS1S1613V01.BIN        18,432K  ROB          06/18/25
QIMGCLG                   288K  QSECOFR      06/18/25

Ran into the same issue -  Fortra GOANYWHERE stopped running.    Is the test PTF public?  If so,  please provide the number.     Also,   reinstalled JAVA 11 and fixed the problem,   however trying to find the PTFs for Group level 14. 

We recently upgraded to V7R5 (IBMi)  and applied the latest Java Group PTFs - Level 15 as part of that upgrade.. During testing, we discovered that anything using Java 11 would fail to start due to not being able to create a JVM. After opening a ticket with IBM - they acknowledged that this is currently a "known problem" and supplied a TEST PTF that resolved the issue . They also pointed us to this KB doc outlining the problem including a potential workaround as well. 

IBM i Java Development Kit 11 64 bit VMs Fail with UnsatisfiedLinkError After IBM i Java Group PTF Apply

This issue impacts 7.4 and 7.5 Java 11 (64 bit) ONLY for Groups 28 and 15 respectively. 

My suggestion is that if you are currently using or have JAVA 11 installed on a V7R4 or V7R5 and are planning to apply the latest GROUP PTFs for that release, read the above KB doc to avoid any disruption to your applications/processes. 

Thank you Rob, for pushing Fortra for getting GoAnywhere off of Java 11. This is a real showstopper for upgrading to IBM i 7.6.

I just removed the PTF's 

SJ05893 - JDK1164 25_02 IBM Technology for Java
SJ05889 - JAVA-RUN JDK11 11.0.27+6 IBM Technology for Java

from our IBM i 7.5 systems, and then GA ran fine again.

Java 11 is quite old and not widely used, AFAIK. Would it even be possible to downgrade to Java 8 (for upgrading to 7.6)? I would hate to do it, but if it's the only option...

Best regards,

Christian

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Christian Jorgensen
IT System Administrator | CEAC member
Network of Music Partners A/S

Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 15, 2025 08:06 AM
From: Robert Berendt
Subject: JAVA 11 Group PTF Issue

Thank you Rick!  I've been on GoAnywhere to get off of Java 11 so I can upgrade to IBM i 7.6.  This just adds more fuel to the fire.

I'm on Java Group 14.

Name                 Size       Owner        Changed 
ftpCUME750.txt              8K  ROB          06/18/25
ilstCUME750.txt           384K  ROB          06/18/25
sha256.txt                  8K  ROB          06/18/25
BR2S4247.TXT               16K  ROB          06/18/25
BR2S4247V01.BIN       131,072K  ROB          06/18/25
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CUME750_2.bin       1,392,640K  ROB          06/18/25
CUME750_3.bin       3,784,704K  ROB          06/18/25
CUME750_4.bin       3,489,792K  ROB          06/18/25
CUME750_5.bin       3,817,472K  ROB          06/18/25
CUME750_6.bin       3,538,944K  ROB          06/18/25
CUME750_7.bin       1,884,160K  ROB          06/18/25
JS1S1613.TXT               16K  ROB          06/18/25
JS1S1613V01.BIN        18,432K  ROB          06/18/25
QIMGCLG                   288K  QSECOFR      06/18/25

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Robert Berendt IBMChampion
Business Systems Analyst, Lead
Dekko
Fort Wayne

Original Message:
Sent: Mon July 14, 2025 09:29 PM
From: Rick Eggleston
Subject: JAVA 11 Group PTF Issue

Ran into the same issue -  Fortra GOANYWHERE stopped running.    Is the test PTF public?  If so,  please provide the number.     Also,   reinstalled JAVA 11 and fixed the problem,   however trying to find the PTFs for Group level 14. 

------------------------------
Rick Eggleston

Original Message:
Sent: Fri July 11, 2025 12:19 PM
From: Rich Malloy
Subject: JAVA 11 Group PTF Issue

We recently upgraded to V7R5 (IBMi)  and applied the latest Java Group PTFs - Level 15 as part of that upgrade.. During testing, we discovered that anything using Java 11 would fail to start due to not being able to create a JVM. After opening a ticket with IBM - they acknowledged that this is currently a "known problem" and supplied a TEST PTF that resolved the issue . They also pointed us to this KB doc outlining the problem including a potential workaround as well. 

IBM i Java Development Kit 11 64 bit VMs Fail with UnsatisfiedLinkError After IBM i Java Group PTF Apply

This issue impacts 7.4 and 7.5 Java 11 (64 bit) ONLY for Groups 28 and 15 respectively. 

My suggestion is that if you are currently using or have JAVA 11 installed on a V7R4 or V7R5 and are planning to apply the latest GROUP PTFs for that release, read the above KB doc to avoid any disruption to your applications/processes. 

------------------------------
Rich Malloy
Principal Systems Engineer - IBMi
Cox Automotive
Draper UT
------------------------------

Ran into the same issue -  Fortra GOANYWHERE stopped running.    Is the test PTF public?  If so,  please provide the number.     Also,   reinstalled JAVA 11 and fixed the problem,   however trying to find the PTFs for Group level 14. 

We recently upgraded to V7R5 (IBMi)  and applied the latest Java Group PTFs - Level 15 as part of that upgrade.. During testing, we discovered that anything using Java 11 would fail to start due to not being able to create a JVM. After opening a ticket with IBM - they acknowledged that this is currently a "known problem" and supplied a TEST PTF that resolved the issue . They also pointed us to this KB doc outlining the problem including a potential workaround as well. 

IBM i Java Development Kit 11 64 bit VMs Fail with UnsatisfiedLinkError After IBM i Java Group PTF Apply

This issue impacts 7.4 and 7.5 Java 11 (64 bit) ONLY for Groups 28 and 15 respectively. 

My suggestion is that if you are currently using or have JAVA 11 installed on a V7R4 or V7R5 and are planning to apply the latest GROUP PTFs for that release, read the above KB doc to avoid any disruption to your applications/processes. 

We recently upgraded to V7R5 (IBMi)  and applied the latest Java Group PTFs - Level 15 as part of that upgrade.. During testing, we discovered that anything using Java 11 would fail to start due to not being able to create a JVM. After opening a ticket with IBM - they acknowledged that this is currently a "known problem" and supplied a TEST PTF that resolved the issue . They also pointed us to this KB doc outlining the problem including a potential workaround as well. 

IBM i Java Development Kit 11 64 bit VMs Fail with UnsatisfiedLinkError After IBM i Java Group PTF Apply

This issue impacts 7.4 and 7.5 Java 11 (64 bit) ONLY for Groups 28 and 15 respectively. 

My suggestion is that if you are currently using or have JAVA 11 installed on a V7R4 or V7R5 and are planning to apply the latest GROUP PTFs for that release, read the above KB doc to avoid any disruption to your applications/processes. 

We recently upgraded to V7R5 (IBMi)  and applied the latest Java Group PTFs - Level 15 as part of that upgrade.. During testing, we discovered that anything using Java 11 would fail to start due to not being able to create a JVM. After opening a ticket with IBM - they acknowledged that this is currently a "known problem" and supplied a TEST PTF that resolved the issue . They also pointed us to this KB doc outlining the problem including a potential workaround as well. 

IBM i Java Development Kit 11 64 bit VMs Fail with UnsatisfiedLinkError After IBM i Java Group PTF Apply

This issue impacts 7.4 and 7.5 Java 11 (64 bit) ONLY for Groups 28 and 15 respectively. 

My suggestion is that if you are currently using or have JAVA 11 installed on a V7R4 or V7R5 and are planning to apply the latest GROUP PTFs for that release, read the above KB doc to avoid any disruption to your applications/processes. 

Here's an update for all those who 'care'

From my case with IBM :

Development has marked the following PTFs defective that caused the problem:

7.4 - SJ05892

7.5 - SJ05893

The test PTFs are now generally available. A new Java group PTF will be released tomorrow that include these PTFs. In order to get a clean install and remove the defective PTF, we may want to uninstall/reinstall 5770JV1 opt. 19 apply SF99955 level 16 when that is available with an IPL. Another option would be if you have another system at 750 that does not have the defective PTF applied, we could perform a SAVLICPGM of JV1 opt. 19 then uninstall it from the problem system, restore from the save file and then apply SF99955 level 16 with an IPL.

The (no longer test) PTFs for 7.5 are SJ06457 and SJ06454. These are co-req PTFs for 5770JV1 (again 7.5)
These PTFs were GA'd last night so hopefully available for download now.

Hope this helps those who have been following.....

We recently upgraded to V7R5 (IBMi)  and applied the latest Java Group PTFs - Level 15 as part of that upgrade.. During testing, we discovered that anything using Java 11 would fail to start due to not being able to create a JVM. After opening a ticket with IBM - they acknowledged that this is currently a "known problem" and supplied a TEST PTF that resolved the issue . They also pointed us to this KB doc outlining the problem including a potential workaround as well. 

IBM i Java Development Kit 11 64 bit VMs Fail with UnsatisfiedLinkError After IBM i Java Group PTF Apply

This issue impacts 7.4 and 7.5 Java 11 (64 bit) ONLY for Groups 28 and 15 respectively. 

My suggestion is that if you are currently using or have JAVA 11 installed on a V7R4 or V7R5 and are planning to apply the latest GROUP PTFs for that release, read the above KB doc to avoid any disruption to your applications/processes.