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Allow IWS to ignore extra/missing fields in the input JSON

Ignoring extra fields is helpful so that the RPG program doesn't have to account for every field that is being sent in the request (i.e. 25+ fields and multiple nested data structure arrays, when only 2 values are actually required). Allowing for ...
11 days ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

"Mail from" address in SMTP email design change to allow user and domain name in lower case.

Currently the design has hard coded setting that forces Upper Case on user and domain name in SMTP on Mail From.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 Submitted

IWS wizard for creating or updating a web service: give the choice to save it as QSH script

In a world where CI/CD is more and more important the possibility to have the script creation in a git or similar instead of just creating the service is important to customers with several environments to keep trace of the changes.
4 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Functionality already exists

Enhanced dynamic switch the collections for IWS REST-SQL services

The current IWS REST-SQL service does not support a multi-schema environment and cannot dynamically switch libraries (schemas, collections) referenced by SQL statements.
6 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Submitted

IWS support for elements with attributes

Have IWS support WDSL where elements have attribute definitions like in the following example
7 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

Enhancement IWS rest api swagger

Show the output fields in SQL api
7 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Not under consideration

IWS should support boolean values in json body

IWS's pcml format currently only supports numbers and strings. It needs to be expanded to support booleans. There's probably a fundamental type mapping problem since RPGLE doesn't natively support booleans (other than indicators). In query strings...
8 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Submitted

replace parameter in restoreWebService.sh script

add the ability to restore if the service saved is modify than the online one.
8 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 5 Future consideration

Allow booleans to be returned in an IWS service response

You cannot currently return a true or a false in a json response. If you want a similar thing you would have to return either a 0 or 1 or a string representation "true" or "false". It would be helpful to be able to return a real boolean to make it...
11 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration