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About TEWS

The CA IdentityMinder Task Execution Web Service (TEWS) is a web service interface that allows third-party client applications to submit remote tasks to CA IdentityMinder for execution. This interface implements the open standards of WSDL and SOAP to provide remote access to CA IdentityMinder. All CA IdentityMinder tasks are supported.

A client application submits a remote task as an HTTP 1.x POST request to a web service URL in the CA IdentityMinder environment. The body of the POST request is a SOAP document that conforms to the interface described in a task-specific WSDL document generated by CA IdentityMinder. The WSDL document describes the metadata that the client application requires to prepare and submit a task request.

CA IdentityMinder replies to a remote task request with a SOAP response containing one of the following:

• The requested information
• Indication that the task has been submitted for processing
• An exception that identifies a problem with the request

The client application is responsible for gathering, formatting, and sending the information required for CA IdentityMinder to perform the web service task implementation. No CA IdentityMinder APIs are provided for these purposes.