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Unleash your AS/400

Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs are ubiquitous. They can also be challenging to implement on the AS/400 (IBM i). Rocket® Process Integration is here to help you implement RESTful services to empower your core AS/400 applications. AS/400-powered APIs created with Rocket Process Integration are powerful and secure, pushing reliable AS/400 functionality into a modern web framework via REST and SOAP.

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An Introduction to Rocket API

Rocket Process Integration improves portability with discrete systems

One of the core capabilities of RESTful and other services is the ability to separate the UI from data access and manipulation so you can create distinct and simple components that are easier to manipulate and scale. Rocket Process Integration enables you to bring this capability to your AS/400, enabling services to be created on that platform as or more easily than any other.  With Rocket Process Integration, you can build and maintain APIs without having to dive into RPG or COBOL code, making Rocket Process Integration easier for building and maintaining APIs than virtually any other method.

Rocket Process Integration creates a uniform technical experience

With RESTful services, your IT team can interact with your system in a predictable, reliable way. Components and resources are dealt with the same way every time, with simplified representations that engage with your core systems using hypermedia and self-descriptive messages. This enables your application to operate more efficiently, relying on existing services rather than reinventing the wheel. Rocket Process Integration brings AS/400-based services into the mix, using REST to extend the value of your core applications to web and mobile applications easily and quickly. 

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Rocket Process Integration frees your best people to use their best skills

One of the biggest advantages of REST is that its web service architecture allows for access by any language that can call an API.  Since Rocket Process Integration/ looks like any other, your value of your core AS/400 application functionality can now be made available at the level of granularity you choose, virtually anywhere.  Your web and mobile programmers don’t need to be concerned with the RPG or COBOL that powers these functions to take advantage of your core business systems.   

Rocket Process Integration improves client functionality at minimal cost to your system

Another useful application of REST architecture is the use of applets or scripts to give clients the programs and executables they need to use your services without providing all the processing yourself. This lowers the number of features that need to be baked into your web service, which improves functionality for every client individually as well as your teams working behind the scenes. Rocket Process Integration enables you to connect this improved, efficient functionality effortlessly to your powerful AS/400 system so that its full set of abilities can be released to the applications that need it. Use REST with Rocket Process Integration to funnel your core application functions through a lightweight, uniform architecture to propel your company into its next stage of evolution.

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