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

Keep Akeneo 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 Akeneo and IBM AS/400

Give your engineers Akeneo's products, orders, and customers in IBM AS/400: read them with normal queries, write inventory and prices back through the sync, and skip the storefront API.

E-commerce data sits behind an API built for the storefront, not for your internal systems. Teams that need those records, for order routing, inventory logic, reporting, or back-office tools, end up writing integration code against a rate-limited API and maintaining it through every catalog change and platform upgrade.

Stacksync mirrors Product models, Categories, Attributes, Families and family variants from Akeneo into IBM AS/400 and keeps both sides consistent in real time. Whatever Akeneo holds, whether products, orders, customers, or inventory, those records become rows your code can query, and changes written in IBM AS/400, such as new prices, stock levels, or fulfillment status, sync back into Akeneo with its validations respected.

Merchandising and operations keep working in the storefront, engineers keep working in the database, and neither side has to reconcile against a nightly export.

Common use cases

  • 01 Use journal-based change capture to replicate IBM i data into a cloud warehouse for reporting.
  • 02 Keep customer and item files aligned with an ecommerce platform or modern ERP during phased modernization.
  • 03 Read Reference entities records such as brands and manufacturers into a data warehouse for cross-catalog reporting.
  • 04 Mirror Products and completeness data into a warehouse to track enrichment progress by channel and locale without manual CSV exports.

Common sync patterns

Controlled write-back

Choose exactly which tables and fields may flow from IBM AS/400 back into Akeneo, keeping the store authoritative on what it owns.

Read the store's data with a query

Records from Akeneo, whether products, orders, customers, or inventory, 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 Akeneo API, rate limits, and retries.

What you can sync between Akeneo 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.

Akeneo objects IBM AS/400 objects How this pairing syncs
Categories The category tree used to classify products; read out for storefront navigation or written in from an ERP to seed catalog structure. Physical files (tables) The Db2 for i tables mapped directly to sync targets. Categories is specific to Akeneo and Physical files (tables) to IBM AS/400 — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Attributes Attribute definitions plus attribute options and groups; describe the shape of product data, usually mastered in Akeneo and read downstream. Logical files (views) Indexed or filtered views over physical files, usable as read sources. Attributes is specific to Akeneo and Logical files (views) to IBM AS/400 — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Families and family variants Templates defining which attributes a product carries and how variants axis out; synced to keep catalog structure consistent across systems. Members Sub-partitions of files in legacy applications, flattened or selected during syncs. Families and family variants is specific to Akeneo and Members to IBM AS/400 — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Reference entities and records Structured lookups like brands, manufacturers, or ingredients with their own records (Enterprise Edition); synced two-way or read into a warehouse for reporting. Rows / records The unit of read and write, accessed via SQL or record-level access. Reference entities and records is specific to Akeneo and Rows / records to IBM AS/400 — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Assets Asset-family media (images, documents) managed in Akeneo's DAM; linked to products and synced to storefronts and commerce systems. Journals and journal receivers The change log that enables log-based CDC on journaled files. Assets is specific to Akeneo and Journals and journal receivers to IBM AS/400 — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Channels and locales Target-market settings that scope attribute values; read to resolve which localized or channel-specific value to map on each side of a sync. Data queues Program-to-program messaging objects sometimes used to hand events off to integrations. Channels and locales is specific to Akeneo and Data queues to IBM AS/400 — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Akeneo and IBM AS/400

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Akeneo IBM AS/400 Sub-second propagation

DetectionAkeneo notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Events API webhooks (product.created, product.updated, product.deleted, plus product-model equivalents.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to IBM AS/400 as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

IBM AS/400 Akeneo Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in IBM AS/400 are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Journal-based CDC by reading journal receivers on journaled files.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Akeneo through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Akeneo: REST protection triggers above roughly 100 requests/second per PIM instance (HTTP 429 with Retry-After); the Events API caps at 4000 requests/hour with a 500ms webhook ack timeout.
  • IBM AS/400: Bounded by system resources and subsystem configuration rather than an API quota.
What ships with Akeneo ⇄ IBM AS/400

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Akeneo 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 Akeneo 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 Akeneo or IBM AS/400 record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

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EDI

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

How the Akeneo and IBM AS/400 connectors work

Akeneo

Integration surface
REST API (plus a GraphQL API) and an Events API for webhooks
Authentication
OAuth2 password grant: client_id/secret plus an API user's username/password exchanged at /api/oauth/v1/token for a bearer access_token and refresh_token; Apps use the OAuth2 authorization-code flow
Change detection
Events API webhooks (product.created, product.updated, product.deleted, plus product-model equivalents; product.updated.delta carries old and new values); falls back to polling the 'updated' datetime search filter where the Events API is unavailable
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
REST protection triggers above roughly 100 requests/second per PIM instance (HTTP 429 with Retry-After); the Events API caps at 4000 requests/hour with a 500ms webhook ack timeout.

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

    Choose tables

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

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Secure connection options

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