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Allow documenting of fields and structures in PCML

It would be great if a PCML had a documentation attribute for fields and structures. This would allow to generate a much better Swagger documentation using the apiDiscovery Liberty feature. Use Case: Provided Swagger documentation would not only b...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 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

Add conversion to/from RPG Date/Time/Timestamp and Axis types in WebService client (wsdl2rpg.sh)

Wsdl2rpg.sh generates a web service client based on Axis, and an RPG wrapper.This RPG wrapper provides the classical C structure for the RPG variable types Date, Time and Timestamp : D xsd_tm DS align qualified template D sec 10i 0 D* seconds afte...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 4 Not under consideration

More flexible list

When defining a Web Service using IWS it's only possible to limit the size of the returned list by selecting a return parameter that is placed as a first level parameter field when using the "Count" feature or by using the hard coded feature "Dete...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Future consideration

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

Manage dates before 1970 in the ILE web service client

As described here http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/iws/faq/index.html#primary4, the web service client can't manage dates before 1970. Improving the management dates for of compatibility with the RPG date type : 0001-01-01 to 9999-12...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 4 Future consideration

IWS R7V4 SQL service add security to not allow SQL

R7V4 addition of SQL statements for IWS Application Services should be secured to prevent entry Use Case: The Manage Permissions should be enhanced to secure the entry of SQL statements. SQL should not show as an option if developer not allowed to...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Web Serving 3 Not under consideration

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