Re: Has anybody ever heard of a way to run Google's "gsutil" on an AS/400?

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 12:16 PM Mark Waterbury
<mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It appears to be written in Python ... try it and see?

Not *quite* as simple as that, since it has dependencies. On a
mainstream system, you can reasonably expect pip to handle all of that
for you, even if some of those dependencies are compiled to native
binary (i.e. not pure Python). On PASE, pip will still work for pure
Python code, but may or may not work for stuff that needs to be
compiled to binary.

There are two versions of Python available for PASE as part of 5733-OPS etc., and also iSeries Python that runs in ILE ... see:
http://www.iseriespython.com

Google's gsutil as yet doesn't support Python 3, so that eliminates
one of the 5733-OPS versions. Anyone installing any IBM Python for the
first time should be using the RPM bootstrap and then yum (and not
messing with 5733-OPS at all). Actually, Python 2.7 is already part of
the RPM bootstrap, though I'm not sure pip is. This is likely your
best best for getting gsutil working on the i.

There's definitely no pip for iSeriesPython, so if you want to try
that, you have to assemble all the pieces on your local machine and
then transfer them over. It will definitely not work if any of those
pieces has to be compiled to native binary. (You could, in principle,
port anything implemented in C over to ILE C to work with
iSeriesPython, but that is not for the uninitiated.)

John Y.