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Web Serving

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Enable Websphere http-server to serve bearer authorization with wizard assist

Add an wizard to configure the authorization to use bearer instead of basic
10 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 0 Submitted

IWS : Info about host server job name assigned to webservice.

Hi, It would very useful to have somewhere in i.e webservice properties from information about host server job(s) assigned to specific webservice. In developement/maintenace process for IWS webservice a host server job's joblog is usually very fir...
12 months ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

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.
over 1 year 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.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Future consideration

IWS support for elements with attributes

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

Enhancement IWS rest api swagger

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

replace parameter in restoreWebService.sh script

add the ability to restore if the service saved is modify than the online one.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Web Serving 5 Future consideration

Allow optional input parameters in IWS / Websphere Service

Allowing optional input parameters on IWS / Websphere services would prevent requiring consumers of the APIs to pass in variables that are not being used. This would make the request look better and reduce bandwidth.
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Functionality already exists

Should be able to redact/mask fields in the return data similar to headers and queryString

It's quite likely that sensitive information could be returned from a service. It should be configurable just like for inputs. Bonus points if we could configure masking rules so you can see what the return data looked like, just not the entire va...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration

Create IBM i HTTP Administration activity logging

Related to IBM Case TS009811661, we would like to have the ability to capture/log HTTP Administration activity for the creation/management of: - Integrated Web Application Servers - Integrated Web Services Servers - WebSphere Application Server...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Future consideration