Programs in PASE Fail with "Execute permission denied"

Troubleshooting

Problem

A program runs in QSHELL; however, it fails in PASE with

/QOpenSys/usr/bin/-sh: db2: 0403-006 Execute permission denied.

This is most often due to the program being a QSYS/ILE program which PASE cannot execute.

Resolving The Problem

In some cases, a program that runs fine in the QSHELL environment fails in the PASE environment. When it fails, it fails with a message similar to the following:

/QOpenSys/usr/bin/-sh: db2: 0403-006 Execute permission denied.

This error is most often due to the program being an ILE/QSYS program in the QSYS.lib file system. QSHELL is capable of executing PASE programs; however, PASE is not capable of executing ILE/QSYS programs.

An easy way to verify whether the program will run or not is to do something similar to the following:

STRQSH
$
whence db2
/usr/bin/db2
$
ls -l /usr/bin/db2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 QSYS 0 22 Oct 22 2007 /usr/bin/db2 -> /QSYS.LIB/QZDFMDB2.PGM

[{"Type":"MASTER","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB57","label":"Power"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU058","label":"IBM Infrastructure w\/TPS"},"Product":{"code":"SWG60","label":"IBM i"},"ARM Category":[{"code":"a8m0z0000000CJRAA2","label":"PASE"}],"ARM Case Number":"","Platform":[{"code":"PF012","label":"IBM i"}],"Version":"All Versions"}]

Historical Number

588568711

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Document Information

Modified date:
09 February 2023

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