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Workspace IBM i
Categories Web Serving
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 21, 2018

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IWS web service hard coded library path

When defining a Web Service using IWS, the library path name for the ILE program must be specified and is hard coded.


Use Case:

A large customer with has a multi-library environment where they may have different versions of programs with the same program name deployed to different libraries. The program version resolution is dynamically controlled by use of library list. New versions of programs are deployed into production without outages.


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 14, 2018

    PTFs that allow you to change the program object path of the web service implementation code have been released. In order to use the support, one needs to apply the PTF and redeploy the web service.

    Once this is done, you can use the setWebServiceProperties.sh with the new -programObject parameter to change the path. If one does not redeploy, the call to setWebServiceProperties.sh with the new -programObject parameter will do nothing - it will always call the original program object. Once the program object path is changed, the web service will need to be restarted.

    In the near future we plan on adding GUI support in IBM i 7.2 and i 7.3.

    SI68745 V7R2M0
    SI68746 V7R3M0
    SI68785 V7R1M0

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 23, 2018

    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.

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