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    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...
    1 day ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted
    134 VOTE

    GitHub actions for ppc64le. Let's make ppc64le a standard!

    With the exponential emergence of ARM-based systems we think it is time to make ppc64le a third standard along with x86 and ARM. 1. The context The rise of containerization and cloud-native applications has emphasized the importance of Continuous ...
    over 1 year ago in Linux for Power / RHEL OpenShift (5639-OCP) 9 Future consideration

    mksysb for RHEL, ease of management and DR with same process as for AIX

    After years of using AIX one gets used to work with an operating system that really support you in regards of DR. We can use mksysb, alt_disk_”functions” and LU for AIX but is more limited in using Linux features. We would like to see how mksysb c...
    about 1 month ago in Linux for Power / RHEL 8 (5639-RH8) 0 Under review

    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...
    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.
    3 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Submitted

    Provide Exit Point support for SSHD Daemon

    We would like to utilize the standard IBM exit point program interfaces QIBM_QZDA* to provide control for the SSHD (SSH Daemon) provided with OpenSSH 5733-SC1. This protocol should have the same support available as Telnet, ODBC and FTP protocols ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Under review

    Bring the Rust programming language to IBM i PASE

    More and more open source packages depend on Rust so we would like to see the Rust language available on IBM i.
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Submitted

    Rust language that has become an essential language for UNIX based products. Many IBMi & AIX companies should have the ability to compile Rust on IBM i PASE and on AIX.

    IBM is distributing the ClamAV open source antivirus as part of the AIX but ClamAV has a new release that is based on Rust (software language). Rust has become an essential language for UNIX based products. So many IBMi & AIX companies should ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 5 Under review
    103 VOTE

    Port Go Language

    Port the Go language(n1) to IBM i PASE. n1 - https://golang.org/ Use Case: Finding that the Go language is becoming more popular and that some (popular) tooling is being built with it(n2,n3). Commentary from Kevin Adler: http://bit.ly/golang-twitt...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 15 Not under consideration

    ClamAV rpm requested for IBM i

    Please may we have a port of ClamAV (already available on AIX) for the IBM i platform incuding back to 7.1 :-) Use Case: Ability to run Open Source AV on the IBM i platform.
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 8 Planned for future release

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