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Todd Jones
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Within a fex I need to use RESTful web services to execute a Report Caster job. I need real examples of anyone setting up RESTful to connect to Report Caster. Is anyone doing this?

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Ram Prasad E
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Refer to below documentation to make RESTful call for executing RC Schedule.

http://infocenter.informationb...Fsource%2Fopener.htm

Goto Chapter 5(ReportCaster), then to Running a Schedule.

IBI missed to include &IBIRS_action=run along with the URL.

So here is the complete sample URL to run/execute RC schedules.

http://localhost: port-number/ibi_apps/rs/ibfs/WFC/
Repository/RESTful_Web_Services/Car_Reports/REST_Schedule.sch?IBIRS_action=run

Since you asked for sample working example.
At the end of your fex, add a HTMLFORM and then create a iframe. make visiblity of iframe to hidden/false.
Load the above URL within iframe using SRC attribute.

Also you can use AJAX/JQuery to achieve the same.


To IBI, Can you update the documentation to include IBIRS_action=run as mentioned above.

Thanks,
Ram


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Hi,

As another alternative (if you are licensed for this) You can set up a rest adapter to your environment.

Then create 2 synonyms one for signon and one for runsched

You can then create a fex that TABLE FILES the REST Signon synonym (report caster wants this)
this validates the ID to be used to run the schedule you can then table your execute synonym and pass it the schedule you want to execute.

we have one fex that kicks off the process and then in the post process calls the fex with the rest calls in it. We pass in the variables for what needs to be ran. We have checks in and messages so if it fails at any point in the "flow" we know where.

Had planned to do a presentation on this at summit but got my paperwork in late Smiler

It's something that can be done and without using HTML.


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Ram Prasad E
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Thanks for sharing CLH.

-Ram


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One other option is to use DSTRUN, this is old but reliable. We used that for years until migrating to WebFOCUS 8 and Keberos SSO. There is a bug that is keeping DSTRUN from working in our WebFOCUS 8 enviroment.

As a result, I now have a small MODIFY program that updates the Next Run Date/Time in the desire ReportCaster Schedule.


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Yeah we used dstrun until 8 and we went to HTTPS then we converted the dstrun items to use REST.

Crystal


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Can someone help us on configuring the REST adapter. We are not sure what to provide for
1. Service Description
2. Base URL
3. Security
-Sudhakar


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CLH
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At our site we used none for the service description. The base URL is the url to the client example - (https://wf.net/ibi_apps) and for security we selected none.

Crystal


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