A popular insurance supplier asked PIO to modernize their financial services platform to increase connectivity and data exchange
About The Client
The client provides financially stable insurance products to its customers. Being in business for over 60 years, it has enhanced the process of buying insurance and annuity products. It delivers outstanding performance and believes in service beyond expectation. In September 2018 the client announced its partnership with FAST, a leading digital platform, making itself the first insurance company to be entirely cloud-based. By introducing new technology and a forward-thinking business model, this insurance and security corporation has transformed the experience of buying insurance. From the processes being time-consuming, complicated, and stressful the company has made it simple, fast, and easy. Programmers.io has helped this client to tackle its issues related to IBM i platform and provided long lasting solutions for the same.
- Industry: Insurance
- Headquartered: USA
- Platforms: IBM i / AS400, RPGLE, CLLE, SQLRPGLE, Java, AWS
- Team Size: 26 Members
The Challenge
Our client’s ERP runs on IBM i and it is using Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud service to store its data. AWS Cloud was used for this process because:
- It offers a complete range of services to store, access, govern and analyze data
- It provides reduced costs, increased agility and simplified storage management
- It makes it simple and fast to move large amounts of data online between on-premises storage
The data stored by the client on AWS included files related to banking such as Commission statement files, EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer) Premium files, GL (General Ledger) etc. The client used to extract these files and created dynamic folders on AWS for its daily processes. As these daily processes of the client ran on the IBM i platform, the major concern of the client was to access the data on AWS cloud from IBM i/AS400 IBM i.
Our Solution
Planning the Modernization Strategy
The developers from Programmers.io first discussed all the requirements of the client and prepared an approach to modernize the website by using existing codes.
Native IBM i Support
Discussing the solutions with the client, we decided to opt java as a solution. Main reasons that led to this choice are:
- The IBM i platform supports Java widely and provides a JDK to run java applications on their System.
- AWS provides AWS SDK for java which helps take the complexity out of coding by providing Java APIs for AWS services.
Java Utility Development
Our team of java experts created a java utility by using AWS provided APIs to access the data on AWS cloud and copy those files to IFS (File directory Offered by IBM i). As a result, processes on IBM i could call our java utility to copy the data on IFS and access data with Java easily.
Business Impact
Our solution added value with surprising results because we were able to deliver a high-quality product on time.
We helped the client to support the cross-domain database input for their existing programs.
We have used the JAVA platform to ease the connectivity and data exchange between IBM i and AWS.
Here’s how we did it
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Seamless Cloud-Legacy Integration
Enabled IBM i processes to access and use AWS-hosted files efficiently without rewriting legacy programs.
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Reduced Manual Effort
Automated data transfer from AWS to IBM i, minimizing human intervention and errors.
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Preserved Legacy Stability
Maintained existing workflows while modernizing integration, ensuring system reliability.
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Faster Data Access
Streamlined file retrieval and processing, improving operational speed and responsiveness.
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Scalable Solution
Established a framework that can easily handle future data and platform expansions.
Seamless Cloud-Legacy Integration
Enabled IBM i processes to access and use AWS-hosted files efficiently without rewriting legacy programs.
Reduced Manual Effort
Automated data transfer from AWS to IBM i, minimizing human intervention and errors.
Preserved Legacy Stability
Maintained existing workflows while modernizing integration, ensuring system reliability.
Faster Data Access
Streamlined file retrieval and processing, improving operational speed and responsiveness.
Scalable Solution
Established a framework that can easily handle future data and platform expansions.
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