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This thing is still operating the ERP of many brick and mortar french businesses. A few software companies have the guys able to maintain it, so they are well o
by nkg 4y ago
This thing is still operating the ERP of many brick and mortar french businesses. A few software companies have the guys able to maintain it, so they are well off, charging big bucks for every maintenance operation.
As a developer I have been asked a few times to build websites that feed on flat files exported from AS400 (don't bother asking about APIs). It was a pain every single time.
- wil421 4y agoOuch, you brought up nightmares about flat files from a previous job. I’m betting it was an AS400 or something similar providing the data I needed to ingest. It was painful.
- a-dub 4y agofile drop apis weren't so bad. drop a file in the input directory with a unique name, wait for the response to appear in the output directory. with samba these became easy to work with. i wrapped a couple of these with soap webservices back in the day and any reliability issues almost always came from the soap server. ups used to be a gigantic as/400 shop... i wonder if they're still using them...
- bluedino 4y agoZend provides PHP that runs on the i, so you should be able to get pretty much any information you want out of and exchange information with SOAP or build an API just like you would on Linux https://www.zend.com/products/zend-server/ibmi https://www.zend.com/products/zend-server/ibmi