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Open Source and PASE

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Add libpam-google-authenticator so we can use 2FA with SSH on IBMi

Please , add libpam-google-authenticator so we can use 2FA Use Case: When trying to connect to our IBM i using SSH we can use 2FA with our smartphone to improve security
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Future consideration

Add VNC Server to IBM i YUM respository

VNC Server allows to run a remote desktop on IBM i without using Terminal Server Use Case: With VNC Server & a lightweight WM we could run some useful tools "INSIDE" our IBM i, even from a browser (VNC-JAVA), like iACS, Firefox, xTERM...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Future consideration

NGINX on IBMi baisc authentication support for system profiles

IBM Apache HTTP server supports PasswdFile %%SYSTEM%% for basic authentication. Would be great if Nginx on IBMi basic authentication also had support this
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Future consideration

PASE IP Tools

We need IP tools like ping, traceroute, netstat, ifconfig, etc in PASE environment, so we can improve scripting Use Case: When creating PASE environments/containers for users developing on OSS programming languages sometimes we need to check basic...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Future consideration

Allow naming threading resources from PASE for debugging purposes

Being able to name pthread threads, mutexes, locks, and other multi-threading resources was added to the ILE in IBM i 7.1. Thread naming is a popular non-POSIX extension to pthread, but other pthread objects being nameable is an IBM i-specific cha...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Future consideration

Update PASE equivalent AIX TL level

PASE in IBM i7.2 is based on AIX 7.1 TL1 and PASE in IBM i7.3 is based on AIX 7.1 TL3 neither of which are supported releases of AIX anymore. It would be very helpful to have PASE updated to a current TL (Technology Level) equivalency at least as ...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Future consideration

XMLsec1 porting

add the port of the XMLsec1 utility Use Case: sign XML files directly from the IBM Power system
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 0 Future consideration

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