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Open Source and PASE

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Service Manager for Pase

Right now every tool in pase has its own way to start it. This is hard to remember. For example to start Nginx you would run nginx -c /www/nginx/nginx.conf to end Nginx you would run nginx -c /www/nginx/nginx.conf -s stop It would be much easier i...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Delivered

port logrotate

Port the logrotate(n1) utility. n1 - https://linux.die.net/man/8/logrotate Use Case: I have had use cases in both Ruby and Node.js. In short it would be good to have a log rotation utility (logrotate specifically) that existed for all of PASE.
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Delivered

Remove looping /QopenSys link

The symbolic link /QopenSys/QopenSys points to itself and should be elimiated, because a process reading through the directory will eventually find himself being pointed to /QOpenSys over and over again. Use Case: WINDIRSTAT reading throught the IFS.
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Delivered

ship gcc with 5733OPS

Include GNU Compiler Collection (gcc) as 5733OPS option. Use Case: We find many are needing to compile native extensions for Node.js/Ruby/Python/(PHP?) which requires a C/C++ compiler. The frequency is growing for those asking for this on spaces.l...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 4 Delivered

Deliver nginx webserver in 5733OPS

The nginx web server(n1) is a very popular web server that we (Krengeltech) have been using in production for almost a year on spaces.litmis.com. It works great and setup can be automated (including the use of letsencrypt.org). That is much harder...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 4 Delivered

IBM i - AutoSSH on YUM repository

Add AUTOSSH to YUM repository. It actually works using PERZL tool. Use Case: AutoSSH allows to create persistent connections, specially tunnels between systems with SSH. We use AUTOSSH to create tunnels between AWS EC2 and our system to access rem...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Delivered

Update the IBM i Open Source Pages on developerWorks again

You created a wonderful page with an Overview about the Open Source Products you support on IBM i on your developerWorks page here:https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/IBM%20i%20Technology%20Updates/page/Open%20So...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 4 Delivered

Document how to migrate from 5733OPS to preferred distributions

I'd like to migrate from each installed option of 5733OPS to the preferred method of distribution and I'd like to see the documented steps to do so. Use Case: 5733OPS has fallen out of favor
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Delivered

open source Node.js iToolKit

The following languages have open source iToolkits that allow for community collaboration and contribution: Ruby, PHP, Python, .NET, Swift, shell(db2util). And the one that doesn't: Node.js (arguably the most popular open source language IBM i has...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Delivered

Please port Ghostscript and GhostPDL to the yum repository

Ghostscript is vastly used to create and manipulate PDF files, to print PDF files to PostScript or PCL printers, to create images files from PDF and others conversions (see https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/Devices.htm). Use Case: Print PDF file dir...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Delivered