Where do I begin?

It is easy, but I suspect the problem is the language and terminology being used to describes web-services is different to what you are used to. I know when I had to work with some AS400 guys they might as well have been talking ancient babylonian.

Who is your vendor, I presume it vendor is IBM, if so try reading these which should help you bridge the web-services terminology with something you are used to.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.w ... wg27009770
http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg061808-story01.html

If not IBM then who?

Do you have a WSDL/WADL for the Web-Service you need to consume?

Thanks MartinSpamer, I really appreciate your post.

I will read the documents at the two links that you sent, in the hopes that they will help with the terminology. It is very challenging. Both of these documents seem to deal with "Creating" a Web Service on a AS/400. That's isn't what I am trying to do. I am trying to "Consume" (I think that's the correct term) a Web Service with my AS/400 from a 3rd party vendor. The 3rd part vendor is:
http://www.shawtracking.ca/
The WSDL that I'm attempting to use to create a Service Program on my AS/400 is:
https://www.hos.myshawtracking.ca/QHOSW ... .asmx?WSDL

We have been trying to get this to work for over 6 months. There always seems to be some sort of problem either with java authority, certificates, tokens, etc...etc... It seems a ridiculous amount of time and effort to do something that I think is relatively simple, that's why I see Web Services as anything but easy.

Thanks again for your post. I really appreciate it.
Paul.

Is there nobody else with any suggestions on where to begin with this stuff?

Paul.

WOW...no help at all...hard to believe that everyone was just natuarally born with this ability. Have fun.

paulAtErb wrote:
WOW...no help at all...hard to believe that everyone was just natuarally born with this ability. Have fun.

1) Create a work space (this assumes you have some version of Soap UI Installed) because you need atleast 1 for your project or projects to live in
2) Create a project (project is going to be the place to test your web service and you can have multiple web services in 1 project). File -> New Soap Project
3) The first thing it will ask for is a Name and WSDL or WADL (so give it a meaningful name and the WSDL/WADL...this is just the URL of the Web Service).
4) Don't worry about making any specific selections...there will be some defaults that will be auto selected. So just trust me and hit "ok"
5) Now you should have a project with the name you picked...and if the Web Service URL you put in should have been validated and will be listed (there's a little green hour-glass or atleast that is what it looks like to me)

...reply and tell me if you made it this far...then we can continue

Hello Shephen...I have a project...what's next?

Now we want to make sure that the WSDL or Endpoint URL that you given work. So what you should have is a green hour-glass looking thing... this is the WSDL binding to the Endpoint URL (in plain terms it the web service).

1) Expand the green hour-glass (when it expands you should have at least 1 item listed (each item is referred to as an "operation")
2) Expand the first Operation or any of them you care about, but since your testing this you should know which one you need to look at...if not ask the developer that sent the WSDL to you which operations had changes.
3) When you created you project, but default there should be 1 soap request under each operation ("Request 1")
4) Double click on the "Request 1" under any of the operations (you will now be looking at an XML "sample request" for your webservice)
5) Now you need to look at the request and try to populate values for everthing that has a "question mark"..."?" are entered by default for every "required" and "optional" value, so not all of them are required.
6) If there is something like username / password...which is very common. Then you have to provide a valid username/password to get this sample request to work. Note: you need to be focused on just getting something to work at this point so focus on only the required values. a required value will generally NOT be comment and showing in green...normally those are optional
7) Once you have the "?" either all have been populated or atleast all of the required one's, then you can click on the "Green Arrow" pointing to the right and you with get a Response to display

Try this an let me know if you get a valid response.

Question: Where did you get the WSDL URL that your using? If I know more about it I could be of more help.

Thanks clarksj71

The WSDL URI I am trying to use is:
https://hos.myshawtracking.ca/QHOSWSNA/driver.asmx?WSDL

None of the "operations" that this WSDL brings into SoapUI works as you descrive that they should work. You cannot just enter the "placeholders" and run the service. It doesn't return anything for me.

I'll look at your WSDL and see if I can get it to work.

Can you email me a screen shot of the respose? stephen@apptestqa.com