Re: Using REST service created with IWS

[Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, for 7.3 it requires PTF SI66150, which this customer has not 
applied.  Which explains why I got "struc" instead of "varying".

Thanks though.  I'll definitely mention to them that they are not 
current on PTFs.

On 1/16/2019 7:26 AM, Nadir Amra wrote:
> Peter,
>
> Varying is supported in 7.2 and above by the compiler. See the following
> link:
>
> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/dW%20IBM%20Integrated%20Web%20Services%20for%20i/page/Support%20variable%20length%20fields
>
>
>
> "WEB400" <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 01/15/2019 05:49:36
> PM:
>
> > From: Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: 01/15/2019 05:50 PM
> > Subject: Re: [WEB400] Using REST service created with IWS
> > Sent by: "WEB400" <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Nadir, you were right. I had first tried making the email parms in my
> > service program varying, but IWS considered those "struc" variables. I
> > went back to "char" and removed the regular expression from the casenbr
> > parm and it works!  Thanks!
> >
> > On 1/15/2019 6:59 AM, Nadir Amra wrote:
> > > Peter, remove the regular expression for now and see if it works.
> > >
> > > Then try with regular expressions, Regular expressions are tricky and
> you
> > > need to ensure that you are specifying it correctly.  I will try to
> > > attempt to duplicate your scenario with regular expression.