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DEAR Inventory to IBM AS/400 integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep DEAR Inventory and IBM AS/400 in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect DEAR Inventory and IBM AS/400

Give your engineers DEAR Inventory's data in IBM AS/400: read it with normal queries, write back through the sync, and skip the ERP API entirely.

ERP data sits behind interfaces built for the ERP's own modules, not for your internal systems. Teams that need those records, for reporting services, internal tools, or automations, end up writing integration code against a strict API and maintaining it through every upgrade.

Stacksync mirrors Stock adjustments and transfers, Assemblies / Production, Locations, Products from DEAR Inventory into IBM AS/400 and keeps both sides consistent in real time. Whatever DEAR Inventory is the system of record for, whether financials, operations, people, or procurement, those records become rows your code can query, and changes written in IBM AS/400 sync back into DEAR Inventory with its validations respected.

Common use cases

  • Feed shipment and invoice data from the AS/400 into logistics and finance tools in near real time.
  • Expose AS/400 order, inventory, and item master data to modern SaaS tools without rewriting green-screen applications.
  • Push sale orders from a storefront or CRM into DEAR for fulfillment without manual re-entry.
  • Land orders, costs, and inventory movements in a warehouse for margin and stock-turn reporting.

React to ERP changes

Updates in DEAR Inventory arrive as row changes in IBM AS/400, so jobs and triggers can respond as the business record changes.

Where DEAR Inventory is the HR system of record: people data for internal systems

Worker and org records stay current in IBM AS/400 for provisioning, access, and reporting systems that read from the database.

Controlled write-back

Choose exactly which tables and fields may flow from IBM AS/400 back into DEAR Inventory, keeping the ERP authoritative.

What you can sync between DEAR Inventory and IBM AS/400

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

DEAR Inventory objects IBM AS/400 objects
Stock levels Per-location availability derived from inventory transactions; read-heavy in storefront syncs. Data queues Program-to-program messaging objects sometimes used to hand events off to integrations.
Sale orders Customer orders through their pick/pack/ship lifecycle; synced with storefronts and CRMs. Libraries The schema-equivalent containers that scope which files a sync reads.
Purchase orders Supplier orders and receiving records synced with accounting and planning tools. Physical files (tables) The Db2 for i tables mapped directly to sync targets.
Customers Buyer records aligned with CRM and accounting counterparts. Logical files (views) Indexed or filtered views over physical files, usable as read sources.
Suppliers Vendor records referenced on purchase orders. Members Sub-partitions of files in legacy applications, flattened or selected during syncs.
Stock adjustments and transfers Inventory movement transactions that explain changes in availability. Rows / records The unit of read and write, accessed via SQL or record-level access.
What ships with DEAR Inventory ⇄ IBM AS/400

Connect DEAR Inventory and IBM AS/400 for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every DEAR Inventory–IBM AS/400 connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in DEAR Inventory or IBM AS/400 instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever DEAR Inventory or IBM AS/400 data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single DEAR Inventory or IBM AS/400 record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your DEAR Inventory ⇄ IBM AS/400 sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between DEAR Inventory and IBM AS/400.

How the DEAR Inventory and IBM AS/400 connectors work

DEAR Inventory

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
Account ID plus application key sent as request headers
Change detection
Polling with modified-since filters; webhook notifications for sale and purchase events are available on subscriptions that include the Automation module
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's per-account API rate limits

IBM AS/400

Integration surface
SQL over JDBC/ODBC to Db2 for i (for example the JTOpen/jt400 driver), alongside native record-level access
Authentication
IBM i user profile credentials (database credentials)
Change detection
Journal-based CDC by reading journal receivers on journaled files; polling as a fallback
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
Bounded by system resources and subsystem configuration rather than an API quota.
How it works

How to connect DEAR Inventory to IBM AS/400 — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate DEAR Inventory and IBM AS/400 with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    DEAR Inventory connected
    IBM AS/400 connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the DEAR Inventory and IBM AS/400 objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · DEAR Inventory ⇄ IBM AS/400
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    DEAR Inventory IBM AS/400
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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FAQ

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SSO & SCIM

Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.

Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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