[#JRA-13135] CLONE -IBM i5 incompatibility

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CLONE -IBM i5 incompatibility

Created: 19/Jul/07 04:42 PM Updated: 22/Jul/07 11:13 PM

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CONF-8957 IBM i5 incompatibility

Participants:	Anton Mazkovoi [Atlassian], Jeff Turner [Atlassian] and Jeremy Largman [Atlassian]
Since last comment:	42 weeks ago
Resolution Date:	22/Jul/07 10:37 PM
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IBM "i5 OS" is a new name for IBM OS/400. i5 OS does have good Java support, so you would think it could run Confluence Standalone. It has a "Unix-like" shell environment called "qshell". However i5 OS is not a Unix operating system, and qshell does not have all the commands and programs that a full Unix environment has. It will not run Tomcat's bin/startup.sh script.

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Anton Mazkovoi [Atlassian] - 19/Jul/07 09:49 PM

Wer are currently looking to consolidate the number of supported platforms, rather than add to them. Therefore we will not be looking at testing the i5 OS platform.

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Jeremy Largman [Atlassian] - 20/Jul/07 11:12 AM

Sorry - I see my comment didn't copy during the clone operation; this applies to Confluence as well. My suggestion is to upgrade the docs to call this out as an unsupported platform, not to try to support it.

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Jeremy

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Anton Mazkovoi [Atlassian] - 22/Jul/07 08:27 PM

Jeremy,

Do you mind chasing this up with the support heavy weights? e.g. Tony or Jeff?

The reason is, that I am not sure we need to list all platforms that we do not support. I imagine there will be hundreds if not thousands of them. I will live this open for now, but please chase this up.

Cheers,
Anton

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Jeff Turner [Atlassian] - 22/Jul/07 10:37 PM

JIRA should work on i5 OS on any application server that avoids shell scripts for starting and stopping, eg. Orion. That said we certainly don't encourage customers running JIRA in unusual environments such as this, as we have no evidence that there aren't weird problems waiting to be encountered.