IBM Power Systems

IBM Power Systems are servers based on IBM Power 6 / 7 architecture. They have the capability to run Linux, AIX and IBMi operating systems.

IBMi was formerly called OS/400. Developers familiar with Unix/Linux systems can use the PASE and QSH interface for development.

Here is a brief description of terminology associated with the IBM Power Systems.


CCSID

In qsh, the environment variable QIBM_CCSID controls the CCSID assigned to new files that are created.

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