5799-PTL is a no-charge PRPQ for OS/400. Its name is IBM Tools for Developers for IBM i (formerly iSeries Tools for Developers PRPQ). It is available as a SAVF for V4R5M1 and V5R4M0.
- "iSeries Tools for Developers - 5799-PTL - is a PRPQ product that contains various tools that aid in development, building, porting and deployment of OS/400 and i5/OS applications."
It includes various UNIX commands such as bison, gawk, and gmake, among others.
List of tools
Formatted output tools
| Tool name
|
Prereq
|
Interface
|
Description
|
| getjoblog
|
p,x
|
c
|
display job log in ez or other editor
|
| getsplf
|
p,x
|
c
|
display any spooled file in ez or other editor
|
| getcmdsplf
|
p,x
|
c
|
display results of commands such as WRKACTJOB in ez or other editor
|
Edit tools
| Tool name
|
Prereq
|
Interface
|
Description
|
| datacat
|
p
|
p
|
used to concatenate 2 files that contain ez editor styles
|
| delcr
|
p
|
p
|
delete or add Carriage Returns or Line Feeds
|
| edtmbr
|
p,x
|
c
|
edit a database member in ez or other editor
|
| edtstmf
|
p,x
|
c,p,q
|
edit and IFS file in ez or other editor, optionally converting to different code page first
|
| ez
|
p,x
|
c,q,p
|
ez editor
|
| ez2ascii
|
p
|
p
|
ez2xxx convert stylized text to other formats
|
| ez2plain
|
p
|
p
|
ez2xxx convert stylized text to other formats
|
| ez2punchcard
|
p
|
p
|
ez2xxx convert stylized text to other formats
|
| emacs
|
p,x
|
c,p
|
emacs text editor
|
| ezmrg
|
p,x
|
c,q,p
|
compare and merge files
|
| mred
|
p,x
|
c,q,p
|
edit ez files without styles (shows control characters)
|
| mrhex
|
p,x
|
c,q,p
|
Edit files in ASCII or EBCDIC
|
Build tools
| Tool name
|
Prereq
|
Interface
|
Description
|
| bison v1.25
|
-
|
c,q
|
GNU, parser generator and upwardly compatible with yacc
|
| flex v2.5.4
|
-
|
c,q
|
GNU, produces lexical analyzers
|
| gawk v3.0.3
|
-
|
c,q
|
GNU, pattern matching utility and upwardly compatible with awk
|
| gmake v3.77
|
-
|
c,q
|
GNU version of make
|
| icc
|
-
|
c,q
|
invokes ILE C or ILE C++ compiler from Qshell
|
| ld
|
-
|
c,q
|
used to build iSeries service programs
|
File management tools
| Tool name
|
Prereq
|
Interface
|
Description
|
| cpio v2.4.2
|
-
|
c,q
|
GNU, copies file archives to and from disk
|
| del
|
-
|
c,q
|
similar to remove, but also removes symbolic links
|
| dspdirinf
|
-
|
c,q
|
displays ifs directory sizes and structure
|
| gzip v1.2.4
|
-
|
c,q
|
GNU, compresses and decompresses files
|
| qar
|
-
|
c,q
|
utility for creating, modifying, and extracting from archives
|
| runcmddir
|
-
|
c,q
|
allows a user to run a command against an entire IFS directory
|
Miscellaneous tools
| Tool name
|
Prereq
|
Interface
|
Description
|
| iceWM
|
p
|
p
|
Window manager to be used with VNC
|
| perl
|
p
|
p
|
perl scripting language
|
| perl-DBD
|
p
|
p
|
DB2 database interface for perl
|
| perl-DBI
|
p
|
p
|
Database interfaces for perl
|
| pipescript
|
p,x
|
p
|
dump stdout to a resizeable window
|
| unflow
|
p
|
p
|
split stdout into lines
|
| VNC
|
p
|
p
|
Virtual Network Computing allows a user to run X-window applications on the iSeries
|
| xcut
|
p
|
p
|
send text to cut buffer or print out cut buffer
|
Notes
- The prerequisites for each tool:
- p = PASE for i
- x = Xserver (for X-window based tools)
- Where the tool is callable from:
- c = CL
- q = QSHELL
- p = PASE for i
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