PASE
PASE, an acronym for Portable Application Solutions Environment, is an IBM-supplied licensed program which provides a subset of AIX functionality on the iSeries.
This can be used to port a number of traditionally unix-only capabilites to the iSeries, including zip/unzip, sftp, tcl and GnuPGP.
When released as part of V4R4, V4R5 and V5R1, PASE was a chargeable LPP. As of V5R2 and later, it has become a no-charge option.
PASE is installed as option 33 of the OS/400 LPP. On V5R3 it is 5722SS1, Option 33.
Shells
PASE includes three shells: Korn (ksh), Bourne (bsh), and C (csh). The default shell, located in the IFS at /QOpenSys/usr/bin/sh, is the Korn shell.
AIX compatability
| AIX release |
V4R4 | V4R5 | V5R1[1] | V5R2[2] | V5R3[3] | V5R4[4] | 6.1[5] | 7.1[6] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.2 (32-bit) |
Yes (4.2.1) |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No | No |
| 4.3 (32-bit) |
No | Yes (4.3.3) |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| 4.3 (64-bit) |
No | No | Yes (4.3.3) |
No | No | No | No | No |
| 5.1 (32/64-bit) |
No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 5.2 (32/64-bit) |
No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 5.3 (32/64-bit) |
No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 6.1 (32/64-bit) |
No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Java
In V5R4, the 32bit version of the JVM runs in PASE.
Perl
In addition to traditional *ux-style utilities, PASE can support various open source software like Perl. Often, the AIX version of a package can be used as-is in PASE. Sometimes you'll need RPM; see PASE_Open_Source. Perl itself can be installed via 5799-PTL.
References
External links
- http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/enable/site/porting/iseries/pase/
- OS/400 PASE from V5R3 Infocenter
- i5/OS PASE from V5R4 Infocenter
- [1] Google cache of V4R5 Software Announcement 200-167 June 12, 2000
- Young iSeries Professionals PASE page
