IBM® Connect:Direct® Web Services 1.0
IBM Connect:Direct Web Services (CDWS) enables other external applications to invoke commands or integrate with Connect:Direct (CD) nodes through RESTful Application Programming Interface (API). The REST API supports create, query, update, and delete operations on resources by using standard HTTP GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE methods and provides resource data in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format. Connect:Direct Web Services (CDWS) provide APIs for different Connect:Direct functions such as submitting file transfer process, process control, fetching statistics , netmap update for remote nodes , user authorization , user proxy , secure plus configuration , controlling tracing etc. These APIs can be directly invoked through different clients like CLI, customized scripts , browser interface and can be seamlessly integrated with business applications. This release of CDWS provides REST API functionality support for Connect:Direct UNIX on Linux (REDHAT and SUSE).