Tools list
The following table lists the Tools for Developer for i5/OS by functional category and the following information about each tool:
- A description
- The prerequisites for each tool, where
- p = PASE for i
- x = Xserver (for X-window based tools)
- Where the tool is callable from, where
- c = CL
- q = QSHELL
- p = PASE for i
| Tool name | Prereq | Interface | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Formatted output tools |
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| getjoblog (PDF, 477KB) | p,x | c | display job log in ez or other editor | |
| getsplf (PDF, 330KB) | p,x | c | display any spooled file in ez or other editor | |
| getcmdsplf (PDF, 257KB) | p,x | c | display results of commands such as WRKACTJOB in ez or other editor | |
Edit tools |
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| datacat (PDF, 88KB) | p | p | used to concatenate 2 files that contain ez editor styles | |
| delcr | p | p | delete or add Carriage Returns or Line Feeds | |
| edtmbr (PDF, 58KB) | p,x | c | edit a database member in ez or other editor | |
| edtstmf (PDF, 72KB) | p,x | c,p,q | edit and IFS file in ez or other editor, optionally converting to different code page first | |
| ez (PDF, 157KB) | p,x | c,q,p | ez editor | |
| ez2ascii (PDF, 91KB) | 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 (link resides outside of ibm.com) | p,x | c,p | emacs text editor | |
| ezmrg (PDF, 57KB) | 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 |
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| bison v1.25 (link resides outside of ibm.com) | c,q | GNU, parser generator and upwardly compatible with yacc | ||
| flex v2.5.4 (link resides outside of ibm.com) | c,q | GNU, produces lexical analyzers | ||
| gawk v3.0.3 (link resides outside of ibm.com) | c,q | GNU, pattern matching utility and upwardly compatible with awk | ||
| gmake v3.77 (link resides outside of ibm.com) | c,q | GNU version of make | ||
| icc (PDF, 137KB) | c,q | invokes ILE C or ILE C++ compiler from Qshell | ||
| ld (PDF, 137KB) | c,q | used to build iSeries service programs | ||
File management tools |
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| cpio v2.4.2 (link resides outside of ibm.com) | c,q | GNU, copies file archives to and from disk | ||
| del (PDF, 137KB) | c,q | similar to remove, but also removes symbolic links | ||
| dspdirinf | c,q | displays ifs directory sizes and structure | ||
| gzip v1.2.4 (link resides outside of ibm.com) | c,q | GNU, compresses and decompresses files | ||
| qar (PDF, 137KB) | c,q | utility for creating, modifying, and extracting from archives | ||
| runcmddir (PDF, 43KB) | c,q | allows a user to run a command against an entire IFS directory | ||
Miscellaneous tools |
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| iceWM (link resides outside of ibm.com) | p | p | Window manager to be used with VNC | |
| perl (link resides outside of ibm.com) | p | p | perl scripting language | |
| perl-DBD | p | p | DB2 database interface for perl | |
| perl-DBI (link resides outside of ibm.com) | p | p | Database interfaces for perl | |
| pipescript (PDF, 84KB) | p,x | p | dump stdout to a resizeable window | |
| unflow | p | p | split stdout into lines | |
| VNC (PDF, 172KB) | 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 | |
GNU licensing information:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html#SEC1
Andres Consortium information:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~AUIS/
