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You can now deploy service programs procedures that have up to 248 parameters as web services. You will need to get the following HTTP group PTF:
V7R3M0 SF99722 Level 31
V7R4M0 SF99662 Level 12
IBM agrees with the request and a solution appears to be desirable and feasible. IBM intends to provide a solution. However, IBM's plans may change and no commitment is made that a solution will be provided.
We use data structures as parameters to receive & send data for HTTP POST/PUT methods where the payload is sent using message body but the parameter limitation restricts while we use HTTP GET where data is received through path, query, matrix parameters. We have complex search criteria based on several attributes and IWS does not support mapping path, query, matrix parameters to data structure subfields
While 7 does seem a rather low limit, it seems to me that coding procedures that require more than 7 parameters rather than accepting a Data Structure or array as a parameter is perhaps not the best design. Perhaps modifying the design would make more sense. I have worked with other customers who hit this limit and in each case the original design was based on thinking that originated in the days of RPG400 when it was awkward to pass a DS as a parameter. Changing the design made it much easier for non-IBM i clients to call the service.
While 7 does seem a rather low limit, it seems to me that coding procedures that require more than 7 parameters rather than accepting a Data Structure or array as a parameter is perhaps not the best design. Perhaps modifying the design would make more sense. I have worked with other customers who hit this limit and in each case the original design was based on thinking that originated in the days of RPG400 when it was awkward to pass a DS as a parameter. Changing the design made it much easier for non-IBM i clients to call the service.