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My votes: Open Source and PASE

Add Python FastAPI support to PASE environment of IBM i

Python has become one of the primary languages for AI, automation, data engineering, and API development. FastAPI has emerged as the industry-standard framework for building: REST APIs AI inference services Agentic AI platforms MCP (Model Context ...
3 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE Submitted

Request for Missing Python 3.13 Packages in Open Source Package Management

We are upgrading the patches for the Open Source Package Management environment. However, we found that some of the required Python 3.13 packages are not available in the Open Source Package Management repository.For your reference, we have attach...
3 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE Submitted

enable interactive user and password authentication on sftp client

It would be useful to have the same possibility that is present on all other Windows and Linux systems.
8 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE Submitted

Requesting DNF build to manage OSS on IBM i.

Requesting DNF build to manage OSS on IBM i. This will help to move out of Python2 version (default from YUM) and make use of the latest Python versions. Will help on the compliance side as well to not use Python2.
9 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE Future consideration

Add nmap to IBM i repository to be downloaded via ACS

Hi IBM, can you add NMAP package to the IBM i repository? NCAT is part of NMAP and it will be useful to problem remote systems ports from IBM i
10 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE Submitted

Make available in ibm yum repo major ODBC DBMS

Would be nice and of value having major DBMS available in IBM yum repo readily available to pull. For example we have already in @ibmi-base freetds-odbc.ppc64 for freetds would be nice to have for example mysql odbc, postgres compiled for PASE. th...
11 months ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE Future consideration

Add mktemp utility to qshell & pase shell

Provide the mktemp utility that is generally standard in most *nix environments. https://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/mktemp.html
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE Functionality already exists

Add support for golang on IBM i

We run node servers built from typescript projects on power i. Typescript has recently announced they will be porting over their transpiler to golang https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port/ Angular has already switched to...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE Future consideration

Google Pub/Sub support on IBM i OS

We have tried to develop a solution to interact with Google Pub/Sub directly on the IBMi and have been unable to due to restrictions related to the processor on the IBMi. This has included attempts to run a Python coded solution on the IBMi direct...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE Under review

Enhancing network performance analysis on IBM i with iPerf Integration

iPerf (iPerf - The TCP, UDP and SCTP network bandwidth measurement tool) is a widely used command-line tool designed for measuring network performance by generating TCP and UDP traffic between two endpoints. It allows network administrators, engin...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE Under review