Open Source iSeries Toolkit April 11, 2006
While searching for an open source software for my other project, I came across Open Source iSeries Toolkit. For those of you new to Open Source Software, it is a program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design free of charge. Open source code is typically created as a collaborative effort in which programmers improve upon the code and share the changes within the community. Open source sprouted in the technological community as a response to proprietary software owned by corporations. Learn more about it at opensource.org.
iSeries Toolkit is a bag of utilities that support Dynamic SQL, Messaging, IFS file access, User spaces, User indexes, Dynamic Native File Access, XML, and Source Generation. These RPGIV ILE and Java tools work on most recent releases of the iSeries and AS/400.
Get Involved
Apart from being a user of this toolkit, you can get involved as a developer. You can actually help developing the iSeries Toolkit by either fixing the bugs reported or adding / enhancing the utilities by checking the features requested. This open source project has a very active community that is constantly working on improving the toolkit. You can download the toolkit and try it yourself.
Here are some of the features requested:
- UDF suggestion for dates
- Include a complete list of subprocedures
- DMPSQL data from a table.
- ILE Module Information
- New feature in Seq().
- UserSpace Viewer.
- Add support for the Qp0lGetAttr API
- Update Debug info in CHGOBJ Command
- New SAVZIP Command
Are you ready to accept these challenging tasks?
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