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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=OS/400 PASE
- x=Xserver (for X-window based tools)
- Where the tool is callable from, where
- c = CL
- q = QSHELL
- p = OS/400 PASE
| Tool name |
Prereq |
Interface |
Description |
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| Formatted output tools |
| getjoblog |
p,x |
c |
display job log in ez or other editor |
| getsplf |
p,x |
c |
display any spooled file in ez or other editor |
| getcmdsplf |
p,x |
c |
display results of commands such as WRKACTJOB in ez or other editor |
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| Edit tools |
| datacat |
p |
p |
used to concatenate 2 files that contain ez editor styles |
| delcr |
p |
p |
delete or add Carriage Returns or Line Feeds |
| edtmbr |
p,x |
c |
edit a database member in ez or other editor |
| edtstmf |
p,x |
c,p,q |
edit and IFS file in ez or other editor, optionally converting to different code page first |
| ez |
p,x |
c,q,p |
ez editor |
| ez2ascii |
p |
p |
ez2xxx convert stylized text to other formats |
| ez2other |
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
|
p,x |
c,p |
emacs text editor |
| ezmrg |
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 |
| review |
p,x |
c,p,q |
online review tools. make view comments |
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| Build tools |
| bison v1.25 |
|
c,q |
GNU, parser generator and upwardly compatible with yacc |
| flex v2.5.4 |
|
c,q |
GNU, produces lexical analyzers |
| gawk v3.0.3 |
|
c,q |
GNU, pattern matching utility and upwardly compatible with awk |
| gmake v3.77 |
|
c,q |
GNU version of make |
| icc |
|
c,q |
invokes ILE C or ILE C++ compiler from Qshell |
| ld |
|
c,q |
used to build iSeries service programs |
| makedepend |
|
c,q |
GNU, find file dependencies utility |
| |
| File management tools |
| cpio v2.4.2 |
|
c,q |
GNU, copies file archives to and from disk |
| del |
|
c,q |
similar to remove, but also removes symbolic links |
| dspdirinf |
|
c,q |
displays ifs directory sizes and structure |
| gzip v1.2.4 |
|
c,q |
GNU, compresses and decompresses files |
| qar |
|
c,q |
utility for creating, modifying, and extracting from archives |
| runcmddir |
|
c |
allows a user to run a command against an entire IFS directory |
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| Miscellaneous tools |
| ASCII telnet server (strpasesvr) |
p |
c |
enablement for TTY-based, text mode, ASCII applications, like `vi` |
| iceWM |
p |
p |
Window manager to be used with VNC |
| perl |
p |
p |
perl scripting language |
| perl-DBD |
p |
p |
DB2 database interface for perl |
| perl-DBI |
p |
p |
Database interfaces for perl |
| pflow |
p |
p |
flow a paragraph to remove newlines |
| pipescript |
p,x |
p |
dump stdout to a resizeable window |
| ps |
|
q |
displays job information from Qshell |
| unflow |
p |
p |
split stdout into lines |
| VNC |
p |
c,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
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