Re: HTTP Apache V5R3 problem

Dr. Syd Nicholson skrev den 07-10-2008 13:35:

I don't think that is possible.

EDTF runs under i5/OS. When you use QSH or PASE you are running a "virtual"
AIX unix session. EDTF cannot run in that environment.

QSH is just a thin layer giving Unixy look of the world. PASE (as far as I know) provides an AIX system interface but does not contain an AIX kernel (the system calls apparently is implemented by calling OS/400 routines).

There is a "system" command which can do SOME stuff, but not edtf unfortunately. I was wondering if some magic with

You can run any AIX program, providing it does not need a GUI screen. There
are likely to be editors on the internet you can download and install.

You do not need a separate partition to run unix based programs on the
system i. The system i even has X server/client options.

I have played with this. The JVM's graphics part is just a straight port of the X11 code so you can run e.g. SwingSet demo just by setting the DISPLAY variable to an X server.

I would like to here comment from IBM, but I often wonder if i5/OS is built
on top of unix.

Don't think so. The OS/400 way of thinking is so vastly different from the Unix way of thinking that that would be rather difficult. The other way around is another matter - Unix is designed for dumb machinery so the requirements are pretty small - hence PASE :)


I'd just like for PASE programs to be able to access the display programatically - I can run an xterm so it should be possible one way or another. Sigh.