Work area service settings
Manage the work area service.
The work area service manages the scope and implicit propagation of application context. The work area service panel in the administrative console configures the UserWorkArea partition only and has no effect on the work area partition service panel.
From the admin console, click...
Servers > Server Types > WebSphere application servers > server > Business Process Services > Work area service.
For additional information about work area, see the com.ibm.websphere.workarea package in the Application Programming Interfaces (API) documentation. The generated API documentation is available in the information center table of contents from the path Reference > >Programming interfaces > APIs - Application Programming Interfaces.
Enable service at server startup
Specifies whether the server attempts to start the work area service.
- Selected
- When the application server starts, it attempts to start the work area service automatically.
- Cleared
- The server does not try to start the work area service. If work areas are used on this application server, the system administrator must start the service manually or select this property and then restart the server.
Maximum send size
Maximum size of data that can be sent within a single work area.
Information Value Data type Integer Units Bytes Default 10000 Range -1, 0 (no limit) and 1 to 2147483647 The following values are also used to define the maximum send size.
Information Value Default -1 No limit 0
Maximum receive size
Maximum size of data that a single work area can receive.
Information Value Data type Integer Units Bytes Default 10000 Range -1, 0 (no limit) and 1 to 2147483647 The following values are also used to define the maximum receive size.
Information Value Default -1 No limit 0
Enable Web service propagation
Specifies whether the work area is propagated on Web service requests. This option is disabled by default.
Propagating work area context over Web services Manage local work with a work areas