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Installing MDOpen Web

Version 8.6

Published March 4, 2025

Overview & Architecture

MDOpen Web is a browser-based installation of MDOpen for VSCODE.

It is installed and runs natively as a web application from an IBM i HTTP server instance.

MDOpenweb uses the same MDCMS REST APi's as MDOpen-RDi and MDOpen-VSCODE-Desktop, to retrieve the content.

MDOpenweb Architecture

MDOpenweb Architecture

Pre-Requisites

  1. MDCMS Rest API Server installed and configured with SSL/TLS/HTTPS access.
  2. Available TCP port numbers for MDOpenweb HTTP server instance. Consult with your Operations/Infrastructure Administrator
  3. IBM i Digital Certificate Manager server application name
  4. MDCMS Instance Suffix
  5. V7R2M0 IBM i OS or later
  6. *SECADM Authority

SSL/HTTPS Mandatory

Communication to the MDOpenweb HTTP server and to the MDChange REST API servers MUST be using HTTPS scheme

Installation Logs

The installation log is found in one of two places:

/mdcms/temp/<server_instance_name>_installation_audit_<date>_<time>.log

or

/www/<server_instance_name>/logs/<server_instance_name>_installation_audit_<date>_<time>.log

Info

Prefix the paths above with /<IASP name> as applicable