SOAP Web Services Fail After WebSphere Liberty Patched

December 5, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you had not yet gotten around to putting the October 2022 HTTP Group PTF patches for the WebSphere Liberty web application server on your IBM i system, that may turn out to be a fortunate thing. There is something wonky about SOAP web services running in conjunction with Integrated Web Services (IWS v2.6) and Integrated Application Server (IAS v8.5) middleware on the IBM i platform that is causing SOAP fault errors.

This error is documented here by IBM, and the techies that we know are trying to figure out the full extent of the issue. Doug Bidwell, our …