Re: subject: Odd behavior in Integrated Web Services: two systems that SHOULD be the same are behaving differently.

[James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Rowe wrote:
> Greetings.  Issue with the Web Administration GUI.  First, the path that
> you are describing on the failing system is the path for the Create
> Application Server.

> Or at least that is what it sounds like. The Create Web
> Services Server can be access vis multiple locations. From the Main 'Setup'
> tab, or in the left navigation under the 'Common Tasks and Wizard' list .
> Please try both of these routes.  If this does not work then a PMR is the
> best route to get this corrected. Up the severity as necessary.

I'm using the same path on both systems, but getting different results.

Going to "HTTP Server Administration" from  the "I5/OS Tasks" menu, I 
get a new tab with a menu on the left. I go to the wizard from "Create 
Web Services Server" in the top section, "Common Tasks and Wizards."

On our box, it takes me to "Specify web services server name"; on the 
customer box, it skips that and takes me directly to "Specify User ID 
for Server."

We've got a PMR open, but there are very severe limits to what they can 
do with us on a box that isn't ours. They suggested that the customer 
should be opening the PMR, or empowering us to open one on their behalf.

Einstein once defined insanity as "doing the same thing, repeatedly, 
under the same conditions, and expecting different results." I guess a 
corollary would be that "presenting different results from the same 
actions under ostensibly the same conditions" would be a definition of 
an insane system.

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JHHL