Re: Trying to learn about REST and IBM i services

Thanks. I will look into these too.

My purpose for all of this is to learn (or at least understand) the tools
that IBM provides in case I run into a customer that has them already in use
or wants to use them.


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From: WEB400 <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 12:27 PM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Trying to learn about REST and IBM i services

I wrote a basic intro here:
https://techchannel.com/SMB/02/2016/creating-web-services-rest
<https://techchannel.com/SMB/02/2016/creating-web-services-rest>

I also gave a live presentation on deploying an RPG program via IWS (Service
program works the same way). If you are only interested in that aspect and
don't need all the intro stuff you can find it here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/WlQ6Zz6s7BU8Wn9QXvCh0pfDzMVzELoGzqYr9INcQnc
I0RQ2mKPlTvThe2XLBSYz6_VaF38YFBugsP-K.0XKkSIYQMYyAQNQ6?autoplay=true&startTi
me=1604418587000
<https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/WlQ6Zz6s7BU8Wn9QXvCh0pfDzMVzELoGzqYr9INcQn
cI0RQ2mKPlTvThe2XLBSYz6_VaF38YFBugsP-K.0XKkSIYQMYyAQNQ6?autoplay=true&startT
ime=1604418587000> start at around the 42 minute mark for just the program
stuff.

Scott Klement has presentations on developing web services on his
presentations area. In particular this one
https://www.scottklement.com/presentations/#PROVIDING
<https://www.scottklement.com/presentations/#PROVIDING>

For micro services you should look at ILEastic
https://github.com/sitemule/ILEastic <https://github.com/sitemule/ILEastic>
which is blazingly fast and does not require Apache or any other server
software.


Jon Paris

On Sep 15, 2021, at 12:08 PM, smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks Tim for including the youtube videos. They never turned up in my

google searches. I did a quick skim of them and they might be more of what
I was looking for because I am after the down and dirty, not the overview of
what is can do. I will review them closer over the next week or two.

Using the fast forward method (clicking and jumping ahead), it looks like

the one is for SQL not programs and I couldn't tell for sure what the second
one did. Do either of these show how to configure a new service using *PGM
or *SRVPGM objects where source is also available for the programs? That
will allow me to look at both sides to understand how they talk to each
other.

So you know, the docs that I was referring to as being old and out of date

are located here...
https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/i-rest-web-services-server2/. This is
part 2 of a 3 part series posted in 2015.

-----Original Message-----
From: WEB400 <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Tim Rowe
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 10:55 AM
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Trying to learn about REST and IBM i services

Greetings.

The doc for the IWS support...the integrated Rest API engine is updated
regularly,
-
[1]https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/integrated-web-services-ibm-i-web
-services-made-easy

Near the bottom of the page is a link to the Red book like doc that has
lots of details.

Additionally, there are a couple of youtube vides on this support that
could be helpful.
[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-hp0_a6ka8
[3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMPUbsrRXnk


Tim

Tim Rowe, timmr@xxxxxxxxxx
Business Architect Application Development & Systems Management for IBM

i

IBM i ISV Council
IBM i Development Lab, Rochester, MN
(507) 253-6191 (Tie) 553-6191

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/are/index.html
http://ibm.biz/IBMi_ACS



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Date: Wed, Sep 15, 2021 9:11 AM

From the responses that I'm getting, I should have been a little

clearer in
my request.

I have been writing C#.Net REST services for a while and wanted to

play

with
RPGLE. I already understand REST services, I just can't figure out

how

to
configure the service on the IBM i. I am the type of developer that
needs a
working example so I can play with it and learn from it what I need to
do to
make it do what I want it to do. I have tried to go through the
configuration but nothing I have found matches up with the screens my
system
provides so I'm not sure what parts of the config are doing what and

now

to
do the config. The IBM developer pages are from 2015 and aren't even
close
to the current version. I am running V7.3.

-----Original Message-----
From: WEB400 <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Brad

Stone

Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 8:53 AM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
<web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Trying to learn about REST and IBM i
services

Are you looking to consume web service or provide them (sounds like

the

latter).

Have you any CGI experience with RPG? There's not a lot of difference
if
you want to use RPG and Apache for it.

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 9:41 PM <smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm not sure this is the correct list for this. Please let me know
if there is a better list.



I am trying to learn how to build a REST web service using RPGLE and
all I can find is outdated information on the sites that show how to
add / configure the site. Are there any websites with instructions
that are not from 2015?

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