PASE

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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.

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 (IBM Tools for Developers for IBM i).

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

References

Java

In V5R4, the 32bit version of the JVM runs in PASE.

External links

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