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

Keep IBM AS/400 and SAP 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 IBM AS/400 and SAP

Give your engineers SAP'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 Outbound Deliveries, Billing Documents, GL Accounts and Journal Entries, Production Orders from SAP into IBM AS/400 and keeps both sides consistent in real time. Whatever SAP 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 SAP with its validations respected.

Common use cases

  • Use journal-based change capture to replicate IBM i data into a cloud warehouse for reporting.
  • Keep customer and item files aligned with an ecommerce platform or modern ERP during phased modernization.
  • Expose sales order and delivery status to customer portals through a synced Postgres database instead of direct SAP access.
  • Publish plant-level inventory to e-commerce and planning systems on change or on schedule.

React to ERP changes

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

Where SAP 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 SAP, keeping the ERP authoritative.

What you can sync between IBM AS/400 and SAP

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.

IBM AS/400 objects SAP objects
Logical files (views) Indexed or filtered views over physical files, usable as read sources. Business Partners The unified customer and supplier master in S/4HANA, the anchor object for CRM and procurement syncs.
Members Sub-partitions of files in legacy applications, flattened or selected during syncs. Materials (Products) Item master with plant and sales views, synced to commerce, PLM, and CRM systems.
Rows / records The unit of read and write, accessed via SQL or record-level access. Sales Orders Order documents written from external channels and read for status and fulfillment.
Journals and journal receivers The change log that enables log-based CDC on journaled files. Purchase Orders Procurement documents synced with supplier portals and spend tools.
Data queues Program-to-program messaging objects sometimes used to hand events off to integrations. Outbound Deliveries Shipment documents synced to WMS, carriers, and customer portals.
Libraries The schema-equivalent containers that scope which files a sync reads. Billing Documents Invoices read for AR status and replicated for revenue reporting.
What ships with IBM AS/400 ⇄ SAP

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever IBM AS/400 or SAP 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 IBM AS/400 or SAP record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the IBM AS/400 and SAP connectors work

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.

SAP

Integration surface
OData (v2/v4) APIs on S/4HANA; BAPI/RFC and IDoc on ECC and on-prem systems; SOAP services
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 or basic auth via communication arrangements on cloud editions; SAP user credentials for RFC on-prem
Change detection
Business events via SAP Event Mesh on S/4HANA; change pointers with IDocs or timestamp polling on ECC
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Throttling is configured at the gateway and tenant level rather than as a single published rate limit
How it works

How to connect IBM AS/400 to SAP — 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 IBM AS/400 and SAP 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
    IBM AS/400 connected
    SAP connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the IBM AS/400 and SAP 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 · IBM AS/400 ⇄ SAP
    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
    IBM AS/400 SAP
    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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