The TAA Productivity Tools is a suite of commands and utilities that complement and enhance the IBM i, the world's best midrange platform. These high-quality tools help you control and manage your system, programs, and data.

Here you will find information about the tools, details on the latest enhancements, individual tool documentation, and much more. Take the time to explore!

Our August 15, 2025 refresh (T103) is available.

T103 is our first refresh with support for IBM i 7.6.

This refresh supports IBM i 7.3, 7.4, 7.5,, and 7.6. We recommend ordering this refresh in order to keep your tools up to date. It has been a few months since refresh T102, and this refresh contains a both fixes and enhancements as well as support for IBM i 7.6. See the notes for more details.

We fixed two intermittent but pervasive bugs in refreshes T102. These fixes are also in T103. We recommend installing T103 if you experience either of these two situations.

• RTVOBJLST - Recent IBM i PTFs include increased parameter checking in an API used by RTVOBJLST. This will sometimes issue a CPF21AB "Status value ? not valid." exception. The RTVOBJLST tool is used by several other tools as diverse as CVTIFS, CHGOBJAUT, and CRTFNDCMD. A patch for earlier refreshes is available for download if you cannot upgrade at this time.
• CVTOUTQ - We introduced a bug in CVTOUTQ in our T101 refresh when we added support for output queues on iASPs. CVTOUTQ is used in several other tools such as DLTOLDSPLF. The result is that not all the spooled files in the referenced output queues are placed into the database file and are then missed by the containing tool. Fixed in T102.

Download the new refresh and keys from our self-service keys site. You can get 90 days of temporary keys per year for any system and permanent keys for systems that are currently under maintenance. This is a great way to get temporary keys for disaster recovery and DR testing.

You can also email support@taatool.com to get a download link for the refresh.

Support for Older IBM i Releases

Refresh 72 (May 15, 2021) was the last full refresh for IBM i 7.2. No new fixes will be available for 7.2 since that release has exited its first extended support period.

Refresh 68 (April 15, 2018) was the last full refresh for IBM i 7.1. No new fixes will be available for 7.1 since that release has exited its first extended support period.

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