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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Open Source and PASE
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 6, 2018

RELATED IDEAS

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 things like system availability (ping/traceroute), or confirm actual IP address using commands or scripting.


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 2, 2022

    I know that you can launch such tools from IBMi (or system command), but a native "unix" like solution in PASE it is expected... not by default, but at least installable from the Yum standard IBMi repo.

    Diagnostic tools like

    • ping

    • traceroute

    • lft (Layer Four Traceroute)

    • whois

    • nmap etc...

    IMHO should be in the yum PASE open repo, readily installable (not by default on the machine).


    I think ifconfig is not necessary and redundant, it is too low level, and one can just use the IBMi shell for this.


    thanks

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 7, 2018

    Using the PASE system command you call IBM i commands directly.

    https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_71/rzalf/rzalfpasesystem.htm

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