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My votes: Open Source and PASE

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    Port XGZIP and zlibNX to IBM i

    With Power9 compatibility mode enabled we could improve compression and file transfers using SSH or SFTP. Traditionally SSH compression on IBM i is not lightning fast, and this could help improve file transfer times.I guess 5733ICC can improve pre...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Not under consideration

    PASE - Allow to run while on restricted state

    This RFE is connected with #154063 For a better integration with Open Source tools it would be great to allow commands in PASE while system is in restricted stated.Even without TCP services will be useful. I can think of two scenarios:* PASE can r...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

    Node ODBC use user's library list that is running the process

    When using the odbc connector in a Nodejs application I want the connector to use the library list of the user that is running the application. Currently I have to manually add a list of libraries to the connection string. Use Case: It is not idea...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

    Provide GCC compiler support in RDi

    Provide compiler option for GCC compiler within the RDi IDE to allow seamless compiles of IFS based source. Also allow compiler options to be set as part of the set up. Use Case: Allows the creation of Open Source objects from within the RDi IDE e...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 4 Not under consideration

    Would like to see the NMAP commands be made available for the operating system.

    Would like to see the NMAP commands be made available for the operating system. Because the tools are good to have if someone asks you to probe a remote server to see what ports are available. This is especially needed if someone put in firewall r...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Under review

    Offer nginx stream modules

    nginx is currently available through the IBM yum repository. The project has modules to facilitate TCP streaming; however, these are not built by default. Could we please find a way to provide these additional modules for customers that may requir...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 4 Planned for future release

    Provide IBM i observability support for OpenTelemetry.io

    OpenTelemetry or "Otel" for short provides a vendor-neutral open-source Observability framework for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics and logs. As an industry-standard it is natively suppor...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Future consideration

    add the Julia language to the IBM i ecosystem

    I discovered recently a project of portage of Julia language on Power platform. I would be very interested by a portage specific to the IBM i machines, with a DB2 for i connector optimized for this environment. The presence of this modern and high...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

    Add "tig" to yum repo

    "Tig is an ncurses-based text-mode interface for git. It functions mainly as a Git repository browser, but can also assist in staging changes for commit at chunk level and act as a pager for output from various Git commands." (from https://github....
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Planned for future release

    Enable use of R from Jupyter Notebook in IBM i

    In order to boost the use of R in IBM i it will be very useful to have the option to run it in Jupyter Notebook. As I understand that means to port IRkernel to IBM i. Use Case: Build R reports in IBM i.
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Not under consideration

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