Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity Thompson
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bafana

Is this possible? Is there an exposed WSDL that I can point visual studio at?
Posted 8/27/2007 2:15 PM

jteelms

Did you ever get an answer to your question? Because I think the answer is yes, it can be done.
ZMF 5.6.1 has a Web Services (SOAP) interface to the XML Services that will be documented for the first time in the Holyrood release. We've been testing it in our own cross-product integrations since ZMF 5.6.0, but we didn't want to open it up to the whole world until we'd shaken out the gotchas ourselves.
What version of ZMF are you running?
Posted 11/6/2007 6:50 PM

montanahuck

I am running ZMF 5.6.1. I am interested in invoking the ZMF web services from an ASP using VBScript, but can't find any documention on it? I think I know how to do the call, and I have tested an XML document that is well formed and will give me a correct response, but I can't figure out the address that I should be posting my XML to.
I found the TCP/IP setting for my environment:
SMFI.SUBS APP DOT.TED.DEC.MAL PORT# TCPIPROC
MGEP.SERP CMN 172.21.9.81 05500
What I don't understand is trying to translate this into the http address I should try to hit. I tried http//172.21.9.81:5500 but it won't accept me posting an XML document there? Does anyone know how to translate my setting above into a workable address?
Posted 1/3/2008 12:29 PM

coryfromsymcor

Did you have any luck completing this? I am stuck at a similar point.
Posted 3/12/2008 11:11 AM

jteelms

Web Services connectivity to ZMF is supplied by a proprietary client running on the Windows server that talks directly to SERNET over TCP/IP. If you don't speak SERNET, you can't get into ZMF. Access to that client is part of what will be opened up in Holyrood, and that may be where you're stuck.
At this point, you might want to call Customer Support and see what they can tell you about customer access to Web Services in ZMF 5.6.1. That release was never intended to support customer access to Web Services, and everything about the way the services are implemented now will be changing in Holyrood, so I'm not sure how much good this will do you, but it's an option.
Serena Professional Services will gladly customize anything for a fee, including Web Services access to ZMF 5.6.1. Again, the underlying technology will be changing in Holyrood, so you might have to redo everything later. But if you have an urgent need right now, or you definitely plan to stick with 5.6.1 for a while after Holyrood ships, Professional Services could probably make things happen for you.
Alternatively, you might want to consider becoming a beta test customer for ZMF Holyrood to get early access to the new Web services technology. That way, you could get the Holyrood WSDLs and the updated SERNET client sometime this summer.
If you take the beta test route, anything you find out about .NET connectivity to Holyrood is something I'd love to know about so I could document it for other customers. There's a move afoot in Serena to open up more of our documentation to customers even before they buy our products, so that information could eventually help a lot of people.
-- Teresa Elms
Sr Technical Writer, Serena Software
Posted 3/12/2008 12:23 PM

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