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Please enhance Web Service Client for DCM applid

We need to have the Web Services Client enhanced to allow use of a DCM application id. We have hit an issue where the user profile must have read/execute access to the default KDB. Our clients will not allow this and don't want to maintain a separ...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 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...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Delivered

IWS REST Time field

bring the IWS in line to support the PCML 6.0 data types. Use Case: In creating a service program install a REST service and using RPG field type T is accepted when generating PCML 6.0. However when installing the REST webservice in the IWS a data...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Delivered

Route IAS/IWS servers to user-defined subsystem

Hello,Not able to route IWS job to another subsystem than QHTTPSVR. Impossible to start IWS server job in another subsystem than QHTTPSVR. He created sbsd, jobd, jobq... and route http job in the new sbs. But it seems that startup.lwiSubsystem is ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Delivered

Administration Runtime Expert for i

This is RFE is for IBM i product: 5733ARE - IBM Administration Runtime Expert for i (Application Runtime Expert) Under 'System Environment' selection- component User IDs I would like to request that we have the ability to build a template to revie...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Delivered

Swagger.json contains _LENGTH fields that are not returned

The swagger.json that is generated includes _LENGTH fields that do not get returned. Use Case: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><example_getCodesResult> <response> <Codes_LENGTH>0</Codes_LENGTH> <Codes> ...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 1 Delivered

IWS with Service Program conflicting PCML structs

I have a service program with multiple procedures. Two of the exported procedures have a parameter "REQUEST" that is like a template qualified data structure "T_REQUEST". "T_REQUEST" is not global. Each procedure has it's own version of "T_REQUEST...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 2 Delivered

Integrated Web Services Server native VARCHAR support

VARCHAR parameters are not natively supported in the Integrated Web Services Server and are instead broken out into structures. In the case of incoming parameters on a RESTful web service the sender cannot simply send the character string; they mu...
over 7 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...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 6 Delivered