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IBMi IWS ILE service program procedure limitation of 7 parameters

We use IBM i IWS (Integrated Web Services Server) to expose ILE service programs as REST web services. Each REST resource (represented by unique URI) is mapped to an ILE service program and corresponding REST methods to procedures within the servi...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 5 Delivered

Integrated Web Services Server Start Up

We are a provider of Healthcare applications utilizing IBM's Power Server running IBM i (v7r2m0 or better) OS. The HCS application uses IBM Websphere Application server express to serve up Java Script application to the users via a browser. Data r...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Delivered

IBM i IWS HTTP PATCH Support

IBM i IWS (Integrated Web Services Server) currently supports HTTP request methods GET, PUT, DELETE, POST but there is no support for PATCH method. Unlike PUT method, PATCH method allows client to send only modified resource information instead of...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Delivered

Web service server returning HTTP status AND errors details in the Body

id like, on REST web service, be able to returning HTTPstatus and errors details in the Body (for exemple in JSEND format) Use Case: it's better for the client (for exemple during a creation with POST) to signal an error (500) and the reason(s) wh...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 6 Delivered

Show the correct HTTP Server status in the IBM Web Administration GUI for HTTP Server running in user defined subsystem

As described in IBM web doc http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1020061, IBM i has been enhanced to allow running an HTTP server in a user defined subsystem other than the default QHTTPSVR, but the status of the HTTP server is not r...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Delivered

Change user of Integrated Webservice Server

Currently it is not possible to change the user of the webservices server without deleting, recreating and redeploying all services. Please extend the setWebServicesServerProperties.sh script with a -user parameter so that QWSERVICE (or any other ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Delivered

MessageTracing - not available in IWS 2.6

Dear Team, In HTTP server release V2.6 (compare to release V1.5), we did not fine the equivalent of « Message Tracing=enabled » any more. This to be able to control once the Xml Requests & responses managed by the server (sent by different Cli...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Delivered

Axis api and binary data

we ask that Axis API be added support for transferring binary and not just text data. The need is to be able to send and receive files in pdf format Use Case: Our software uses AXIS transport APIs to communicate with the web services of one of our...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 4 Delivered

IWS - Remove the limit in the number of fields in the program parameters

Our development system uses IWS to expose RPG programs to the UI. The structure of the interfaces is divided into a classic scheme with two parameters: request and response. Some of these programs have a large number of fields (more than 2,000) an...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Delivered

NULL management by IWS

Currently IWS has no capability regards to null values when a SOAP or REST service is published. When a field in a request is null, the RPG ile program or procedure will receive: For char fields -> all blanks For varchar fields -> a lenght o...
12 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Delivered

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