iSecurity Field Encryption Release News

Welcome to the iSecurity Field Encryption Release News page, your trusted source for the latest product updates, enhancements, security improvements, and maintenance releases. This page is designed to help customers, partners, and IBM i professionals stay informed about every new version of iSecurity Field Encryption, providing a comprehensive overview of new capabilities, resolved issues, performance optimizations, and compatibility updates.

Each release reflects Raz-Lee Security’s ongoing commitment to delivering innovative cybersecurity solutions that protect IBM i environments against evolving threats while helping organizations maintain regulatory compliance and operational excellence. Whether you are upgrading to the latest version, planning your maintenance schedule, or reviewing recently introduced functionality, these release notes provide the technical information you need to deploy updates confidently and efficiently.

The information published here may include new features, product enhancements, defect corrections, security fixes, usability improvements, support for new IBM technologies, operating system compatibility updates, and recommendations for installation or configuration. We encourage customers to review the release notes before installing a new version to understand any changes that may affect their environment or existing configurations.

Keeping your software up to date is an essential part of maintaining a secure IBM i infrastructure. Regular updates ensure you benefit from the latest security protections, improved performance, increased reliability, and ongoing compatibility with current IBM i releases and technologies. By following the latest iSecurity Field Encryption Release News, your organization can take full advantage of continuous product innovation while minimizing operational risks.

Our development team continuously works with customers, business partners, and IBM i security experts to improve every aspect of the iSecurity Suite. Feedback from real-world deployments helps shape new functionality and ensures that each release delivers practical value for organizations of all sizes across banking, insurance, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, government, logistics, and other industries.

Version 2.00 (April 2026)

  • All known issues were resolved and incorporated into a new version to simplify installation and upgrade.

Version 1.71 (October 2023)

New Features

  • Added items to the Maintenance Menu (STRENC > 82)
    • 1. Export Definitions
    • 2. Import Definitions
    • 5. Display Definitions
    • 78. Real-Time Definition Change Alerts

Enhancements

  • Closing files that had been left open.

Fixes

  • Mask Encryption issues with the fields TIMESTAMP(Z) DATE(L) TIME(T)
  • SQL exception had been encountered while attempting to run WebSphere.

Version 1.70 (December 2022)

Enhancements

  • Cumulative PTF includes PE010012/3/4: fields TIMESTAMP(Z) DATE(L) TIME(T) RNX9001 error message in encryption Maintenance encryption log file ENXXFP.

Version 1.69 (September 2022)

Fixes

  • MAXAVA had interpret a monitored escape message incorrectly and resent it out as an error CPF1015.
  • Encryption Maintenance now cleans the ENXXFP logs file properly.

Version 1.68 (March 2022)

New Features

  • If Encryption fails, it now sends the E Mail to the Encrypting User+Admin defined in 89>59.

Fixes

  • Option 9=Decrypt now works for Fields to include 2=All fields.

Version 1.60 (October 2020)

Fixes

  • A message in option 31: Current Values cannot be retrieved
  • Error in Fieldproc.
  • Encryption problem of BLOB field dump.

Version 1.55 (April 2020)

Fixes

  • Menu option 69 PGP Encryption > 52 Encryption Parameters Menu 1 – 2.

Version 1.54 (December 2019)

New Features

  • For selected users the format changes based on (For completeness, the full explanation follows):
  • The program that requests the decryption. i.e. Program that transmits CC transactions to clearance house will get “clear text”.
  • The display file (DSPF) with or without the record format. i.e. Front desk will get “clear text” only on the screen for changing the CC.
  • A user written exit program is called at real time to possible change to either “clear text” or ”masked”.
  • Additional methods to handle performance issues were developed and tested.
  • More mask options for numeric fields of variable length.
  • Optional enablement of data entry on masked data
  • Enable entry of data Option to Encrypted field handling.
  • Dashboard can now show the status of fields from all files together.
  • BLOB and CLOB fields of up to 2GB are supported.

 

Enhancements

  • The internal ZENCRPT subsystem is automatically activated if Encrypt or Decrypt is requested and the SBS is not active.
  • Exception groups, which control the format of the decrypted data as an addition to the standard “by user”, have been enhanced.
  • Exception groups eliminated most of the changes required in user programs to implement usage of product APIs that control the format of decryption.