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Open Source and PASE

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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.
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Delivered

Open source Node.js port

Open source the port of Node.js to IBM i in a public repository for the purposes of transparency and community collaboration. Use Case: Today I collaborated with Andrea Ribuoli, tech lead of PowerRuby.com, and had a conversation that includes the ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 Delivered

Port cron to PASE

Having the cron(n1) tool would keep PASE developers from having to shoe horn scheduling into the WRKJOBSCDE. The crontab(n2) would also need to be included. n1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronn2 - https://kb.iu.edu/d/afiz Use Case: Having the ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 4 Delivered

PHP ODBC connections to MSSQL require FreeTDS

Our websites hosted on the IBMi require PHP connections to MSSQL database servers. This was possible with the Zend Server Free edition (expiring June 2021) with a PHP PDO driver plugin "dblib". With our migration to the RPM based PHP, there is cur...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 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 6 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 Delivered

Add library list options to PASE "system" command

The "system" command within PASE allows the user to run an IBM i command. I would like to see new options added so that I could specify a Current Library and Library List (e.g. comma separated) that will be used for the The newly spawned process w...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 1 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
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 2 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 8 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 4 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...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 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...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 4 Delivered

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