Also, John, there's an IBM web site for HTTP server where you might be able to find out if it supports SOAP (might only be supported by the *MORE EXPENSIVE* - NOT FREE - Websphere Application Server (WAS))
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/webservers/httpservers/library/index.html Regards, Peggy On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 11:28:49 -0500, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We are running z/OS 1.4 (1.6 Q4, I think). I have the "free" HTTPD >server running. Our management wants to "integrate" (more or less) the >creation and deletion of userids. What they want is for the Windows >people to be more-or-less responsible for adding most users (non-Tech >Services, basically). Using the free HTTPD server, I have created a >series of Web pages which are RACF secured. These pages accept the >required information and do the actual RACF functions in a CGI. OK, I >haven't really done all of that yet, just the "proof of concept" in that >I don't actually issue the RACF commands. > >Anyway, it appears that this is not really what is desired. What is >wanted is a way for the Windows program (?) to do a SOAP request to the >z/OS system and get a response back. I don't know SOAP. I cannot find >any reference to SOAP in the "z/OS: HTTP Server Planning, Installing, >and Using" manual. I'll bet it is not supported. > >Anybody know a good reference web site for doing SOAP stuff via a Web >Server? Anybody know a __FREE__ (as in beer) z/OS Web server which will >do SOAP? Or anything else which is __FREE__ (as in beer) which can >process SOAP requests (can SOAP even require RACF authenication?) > >A pointer to a "SOAP for Ignorant z/OS Sysprogs" would be nice as well. > >Please remember that any solution must be __FREE__ (as in beer). > > >-- >John McKown >Senior Systems Programmer >UICI Insurance Center >Information Technology > >This message (including any attachments) contains confidential >information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its' >content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you >should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, >copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action >based on it, is strictly prohibited. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html