Qshell is an optional command-line interpreter (shell) for the IBM i operating system.
The development team of Qshell had to deal with platform-specific issues such as translating between ASCII and EBCDIC.
[1] The following is a list of commands that are supported by the Qshell command-line interpreter on IBM i 7.4.
[2] Qshell does not support the <> redirection operator or provide a command history.
It also has no job control support as IBM i operating system does not have the concept of a foreground or background process group.