Main concepts

ARCAD API generate web services by recording scenarios of your applications' usage in the 5250 emulator of the API Studio and then translating them into web services. it also generates web services based on an SQL query to extract data from the target IBM i database. The web services are created and tested on the ARCAD-API designer server and are deployed on the API Production Server or through API gateways.

On the design server:

  1. Connect to the IBM i on which to record the scenarios.
  2. Define all required Metadata information to be able to create and execute the service or procedure.
  3. Record a Scenario of the service or procedure on the 5250 interface.
  4. Create a Web Service Descriptor.
  5. Test the web service.
  6. Promote the web service to production.

On the production server:

  1. Create Web Services Packages and define versions.
  2. Browse the promoted services and packages.
  3. Refer to the documentation in the web service catalog.
  4. Manage the different API Gateways.