Storing Documents Created on IBMi Server in AWS S3

[caseywhite]

Has anyone created a solution where you create documents on your IBMi server and then store them in AWS S3? We want to allow users to submit requests for downloads and make them available for a period of time. Rather than storing these documents on the IBMi server we would like to put them in S3 instead. The benefit is that they can be downloaded from S3 instead of from the application web server and the storage of them doesn't take up space on the IBMi.

We want to create a page where a user can see all the downloads available. That could either be a view directly from S3 that shows all their documents or we can just maintain some list of links to the S3 documents. I am open to either approach. We have thousands of users for the web application so each user would only have access to their documents.

Any thoughts on what others have done in the past is greatly appreciated.

[petemcbride]

Hi Casey,

We have done a lot of document imaging integration, would love to help

Regards,
PeteMcBride

[wadhwani]

Casey

I am not sure if you saw this but take a look at the example put out by Lansa support as part of their last EPC

https://developer.lansa.com/amazon-s3-client-direct/

We currently have developed a VL web application where we store and retrieve documents from a blob column in a database table but as the volume of records in the db increase (over 10,000), I can see we are running into a problem with our replication software in syncing the table to our failover machine. I have not implemented the switch over to AWS S3 instead of a db table but will begin work on this shortly.

Gary

[caseywhite]

Thanks Gary. I will review this.