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Open Source and PASE

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Port Pandoc

Pandoc is a useful tool that allows conversion between different document types. One example is markdown to pdf. https://pandoc.org/ Pandoc is written Haskell so it would likely need to be ported prior. Haskell has support for AIX so porting shoul...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Not under consideration

PASE port for RCLONE

Please, port RCLONE an publish on YUM repository.Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from: Use Case: We could perform some simple backups and colaborate using lots of cloud providers, including IBM Cloud Object St...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

Folding@home

Port Folding@home to be Used on Power specifically the IBM i. Use Case: Folding@home allows anyone to donate computer resources to help run simulations of protein dynamics which can bring insights into the development of therapeutics. At the time ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

Add Deno a runtime for TypeScript to IBM i

Add Deno to the open source RPM for IBM i.https://github.com/denoland/deno Use Case: Have an alternative to Node that is a more secure secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript. 1.) Improve security with secure defaults such as scripts not havi...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 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...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

Port .NET (Core) to IBM i via RPM

Now that Mono runs on IBM i (thanks to Calvin Buckley again!), it should be possible to port .NET Core, which is now the main .NET Framework, to IBM i without such a big effort. Use Case: Porting lots of .NET Server Applications to IBM i, using DB...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

Pleas port ImageMagick to the yum repository

ImageMagick is a great tool for images creation and manipulation (https://www.imagemagick.org/). It also have options to convert images to a format suitable for printing. Use Case: Examples:- print an image directly from IFS,- convert a png image ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

Add Orion to Yum repository

Please add Orion to Yum rpm repository. It was/is available as 5733OPS licensed product but not as rpm package. Use Case: There is no development tool on IBM i for open source languages. It would be nice to have a server based development tool, li...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

filebeat for IBM i / PASE

Enable filebeat to run on IBM i PASE. If not possible, enable an OpenSource substitute for filebeat. Filebeat is a very popular log shipper for solutions such as IBM Log Analysis and OpenSource ELK Use Case: log files generated and written to the ...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Not under consideration

Add CDRECORD & DVDRECORd to yum repositories

Add the open source cdrkit (or cdrecord & dvdrecord) utilities to the IBM i yum repositories so that CD & DVD images can be built entirely on the i. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdrkithttps://sourceforge.net/projects/cdrtools/ Use Case: T...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Not under consideration

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