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Yes and no. i5/OS has two optionally installable components -- Qshell and PASE -- that many sites install as standard options nowadays. Qshell is the 'native' shell and can be entered with the STRQSH (or simply QSH) command. PASE is an AIX run-time environment that supports AIX binaries and supplies a few different shells, e.g., Korn, Bourne, and C shells. Basic access is via an easy API call -- CALL QP2TERM.
PERL can be obtained --
IBM Porting Central for System i. Note that Zend Core for i5/OS -- PHP development and production environment for i5/OS -- is discussed on the same page.
Lots of IBM documentation is available. And plenty of internet help is out there.
Tom
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Oct 23 2009 7:50 PM GMT by TomLiotta 
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