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Add nmap to IBM i repository to be downloaded via ACS

Hi IBM, can you add NMAP package to the IBM i repository? NCAT is part of NMAP and it will be useful to problem remote systems ports from IBM i
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

Make available in ibm yum repo major ODBC DBMS

Would be nice and of value having major DBMS available in IBM yum repo readily available to pull. For example we have already in @ibmi-base freetds-odbc.ppc64 for freetds would be nice to have for example mysql odbc, postgres compiled for PASE. th...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

Add mktemp utility to qshell & pase shell

Provide the mktemp utility that is generally standard in most *nix environments. https://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/mktemp.html
4 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Functionality already exists

More visibility into ASP utilization across the system using NCDU and displaying it visually in Navigator

Often it is challenging to find files that need to be cleaned up on a system; especially since these systems have been around for 40+ years. Using NCDU I can scan the Libraries, DLO, and IFS and see where my disk utilization is and drill down from...
4 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

Adoption of GOLANG (GO Compiler) by Google in the ibmi-ioss supported within PASE

Nodejs Open source applications are beginning to leverage the GO compiler to increase performance. These tend to be things like Angular, typescript etc.
5 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

Add support for golang on power i

We run node servers built from typescript projects on power i. Typescript has recently announced they will be porting over their transpiler to golang https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port/ Angular has already switched to...
5 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

Google Pub/Sub support on IBM i OS

We have tried to develop a solution to interact with Google Pub/Sub directly on the IBMi and have been unable to due to restrictions related to the processor on the IBMi. This has included attempts to run a Python coded solution on the IBMi direct...
6 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 4 Submitted

Enhancing network performance analysis on IBM i with iPerf Integration

iPerf (iPerf - The TCP, UDP and SCTP network bandwidth measurement tool) is a widely used command-line tool designed for measuring network performance by generating TCP and UDP traffic between two endpoints. It allows network administrators, engin...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

Make pytorch available for install from ACS/Open Source Package Managment.

It would be much more practical, and much easier to install pytorch/ppc64 from a well known place. As for now, it's really hard to find instructions of where and how to install a version of pytorch, built for the Power PC architecture.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Submitted

Db2 for i GeoServer extension

We need to deliver geospatial data to the company via GeeoServer but we haven't found an extension that allows us to use DB2 for i as a datastore. There is a extension to DB2, but is for DB2 LUW and do not work with DB2 for i. (https://docs.geoser...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted