Re: Checking to see whether a given box can access a web service

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are looking to do this interactively, then?

The primary difficulty that I see is that using HTTPS requires the 
Digital Certificate Manager to be installed and the *SYSTEM certificate 
store to be created, at a minimum.  IBM currently provides tools to 
check that via a browser interface, but not the 5250 command line.   
There is an open source project that will help with working with the DCM 
from the command-line, but you say you can't install software.

Feels like a catch-22.


On 8/4/22 10:58 AM, James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
> You know, by now, that I don't exactly keep up with the "latest, 
> greatest" new OS updates.
>
> And I'm sure by now, most of you know that we host some web services. 
> Including web services that are strictly HTTPS-only. And that we use 
> Scott Klement's HTTPAPI to access them from Midrange boxes.
>
> Without installing any of our software on a given customer box, is 
> there something we can do, that will check whether that box has the 
> prerequisites for HTTPAPI to access our web services?
>
> --
> JHHL