Many of you are correct with your suggestions, confirming that I previously didn’t waste my time checking those possible causes, although in my case none of them have been the correct one in this case. The only possible exception is the recreation of the service, which is something I have not manually done, and which may remain even after a complete reinstall of the systems with the newest options from webMethods website. Although since I did uninstall the application and reinstall it, I am not sure if the service was removed during the uninstall.
webMethods suggested that what they thought was the same issue which I was experiencing seemed to be a glitch solve by a reboot which didn’t work in my case.
Martin, can you provide information as to how you recreated the IS service? I am assuming you used a webMethods tool and did not write code, although maybe you used sc,instsrv.exe/regedit or srvinstw.exe.
net stop servicename
?
net start servicename
Thanks to everyone,
Walter
P.S. - After all this, I suppose it could be something I missed in the documentation.