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Fishbowl Manufacturing to IBM AS/400 integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Fishbowl Manufacturing 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 Fishbowl Manufacturing and IBM AS/400

Give your engineers Fishbowl Manufacturing'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 Locations, Parts, Products, Inventory from Fishbowl Manufacturing into IBM AS/400 and keeps both sides consistent in real time. Whatever Fishbowl Manufacturing 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 Fishbowl Manufacturing 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 purchase orders from procurement tools into Fishbowl and sync receipts back on arrival.
  • Sync e-commerce orders into Fishbowl as sales orders and return fulfillment status and tracking numbers.

Controlled write-back

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

Read ERP records with a query

Records from Fishbowl Manufacturing live in IBM AS/400 as ordinary tables or collections, joinable with the rest of your data.

Internal tools and automations without API code

Scripts and services read and write the synced tables; Stacksync handles the Fishbowl Manufacturing interface, limits, and retries.

What you can sync between Fishbowl Manufacturing 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.

Fishbowl Manufacturing objects IBM AS/400 objects
Purchase orders Pushed from procurement tools; receipts sync back on arrival. Journals and journal receivers The change log that enables log-based CDC on journaled files.
Manufacture orders Production work whose status feeds planning dashboards. Data queues Program-to-program messaging objects sometimes used to hand events off to integrations.
Bills of materials Component structures read for costing and material planning. Libraries The schema-equivalent containers that scope which files a sync reads.
Customers Buyer records kept aligned with a CRM. Physical files (tables) The Db2 for i tables mapped directly to sync targets.
Vendors Supplier records synced with purchasing systems. Logical files (views) Indexed or filtered views over physical files, usable as read sources.
Locations Warehouses and location groups that partition inventory quantities. Members Sub-partitions of files in legacy applications, flattened or selected during syncs.
What ships with Fishbowl Manufacturing ⇄ IBM AS/400

Connect Fishbowl Manufacturing and IBM AS/400 for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Fishbowl Manufacturing 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 Fishbowl Manufacturing 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 Fishbowl Manufacturing or IBM AS/400 record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Fishbowl Manufacturing ⇄ 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 Fishbowl Manufacturing and IBM AS/400.

How the Fishbowl Manufacturing and IBM AS/400 connectors work

Fishbowl Manufacturing

Integration surface
REST API on current versions; older installs expose an XML-over-socket API
Authentication
Application credentials plus a named Fishbowl user login that issues a session token
Change detection
Polling on last-modified fields; Fishbowl does not provide webhooks
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Practical throughput is bounded by the Fishbowl server instance rather than a published quota

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 Fishbowl Manufacturing 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 Fishbowl Manufacturing 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
    Fishbowl Manufacturing connected
    IBM AS/400 connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Fishbowl Manufacturing 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 · Fishbowl Manufacturing ⇄ 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
    Fishbowl Manufacturing IBM AS/400
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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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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