Because of the productivity benefits, business-to-business communication via APIs is growing at an exponential rate. The IBM i world is no exception as more and more IBM i users are building and using APIs. Integrating shipping data from transportation providers with core IBM i applications is one of the most popular API use cases we […]
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As more IBM i users begin integrating APIs into their application development strategy, we are hearing increasing concerns about API performance. IBM i users are accustomed to the instantaneous response they get from their 5250 screens and the extremely high-speed performance they get from IBM i transaction processing. At the same time, web users expect
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“I feel like I have been working with hand tools and somebody just gave me a power saw and drill.” That’s how a customer described to me his experience of building web services and APIs in JavaScript for his IBM i applications. “Don’t get me wrong”, he said, “I still love RPG and we will
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It’s exciting to see the number of IBM i users who have discovered the power of extending their RPG and COBOL applications using APIs and web services. The challenge they now face is how to maintain and manage those connections. Many customers we have worked with are connecting applications across their internal networks via APIS.
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After my last blog post on using publicly available web services to quickly and easily add new functions to your RPG applications (https://eradani.com/2020/10/26/quickly-add-exciting-new-capabilities-to-your-rpg-applications-using-open-source/), I had several requests from readers for additional API use cases. So here goes… Barcode Label Printing We have spoken with several customers who have been using Advanced Function Printing Utilities
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A customer of ours responded to one of my blog posts on APIs and said, “you are missing one of the great benefits of using APIs!” “What would that be?”, I asked. She replied, “The ability to call out to services and open source functions right from our RPG programs! It makes it so easy
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Every time I talk to a customer, I learn about great new use cases for calling web services from IBM i applications or calling IBM i functions from open source. What I have found is that although RPG is a much better language for business applications, JavaScript is the right language for web services. Customers
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It’s time to get aggressive about leveraging APIs to build your business. In previous blogs, I’ve written about the power of open source for rapidly adding capabilities to your applications. APIs are like open source components on steroids. APIs allow you to take advantage of the explosion of data sources and capabilities that are being
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How would you like to add thousands of programmers to your staff at little or no cost? Would it help your organization if you could add powerful new functions to your applications without writing them yourself? With APIs, you can! There are literally millions of functions you can access from your applications to help
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A customer asked me recently to help them solve the problem of directly calling web service APIs from RPG. They told me that their warehouse managers needed to ensure they had the right people and the right equipment at the loading dock when shipments arrive. They wanted to know if they could add a
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