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Security and Audit Report Sign-Off—Made Easy
Are your security and audit reports ready if the auditors come calling? Watch this webinar to learn how to automate your approval processes so that you’re always ready for the auditors.
On-Demand Webinar
Speed Up Your Manufacturing and Distribution with Paperless Processes
Your ERP system —whether it’s JDE World, Enterprise One, Infor, Epicor, Microsoft Dynamics, VAI, or anything else—is essential to maintaining your company’s key business information and processes. But you’re constantly generating and receiving paper and electronic documents, too, and it’s hard to keep everything straight. So, you wind up chasing documents and data around—and keeping your customers...
Case Study
Major Steel Supplier Strikes Gold with a Document and Forms Management Solution and Superb Support
Paperwork and steel go hand-in-hand for one major steel supplier (MSS) with locations across North America. Every piece of steel they ship includes paperwork assuring customers of the quality of the product they’re receiving.But MSS had a problem: their processes were keeping them from meeting customer expectations. It was time to make a change.The Paperwork ProblemPre-printed forms and Dot matrix...
Article
Insight On Demand: One-Click IBM i Performance Investigations
By Kurt Thomas on Mon, 10/10/2016
In a manual monitoring environment, for every issue that arises, there is often a multiple-step investigation process to accompany it.
Article
The Commercial Power of SQL-Based Monitoring
By Kurt Thomas on Thu, 09/15/2016
The SQL-based monitoring feature in Robot Monitor means organizations can now apply the valuable insights, analysis, and real-time notifications that they use for system information to information from broader business applications.
Blog
Big Data? BIG DEAL!
By Kurt Thomas on Tue, 08/30/2016
With the dawn of the big data era upon us, what can IBM i systems administrators expect in terms of the demands that will be placed upon them and what kind of resources will be required to cope? Find out what the managed services industry can teach us today about what the future holds for us tomorrow.
Article
Astronauts Rely on Checklists (and So Should You)
By Kurt Thomas on Tue, 08/30/2016
What do astronauts and IBM i admins have in common? Checklists! These seemingly simple yet effective devices serve as our external memories and deliver process consistency, but they’re not without limitations.
Article
Disks Busy vs. ASP Busy in Robot Monitor
By Kurt Thomas on Thu, 08/25/2016
Did you know that the Disks Busy monitor reports the average percentage across all your ASPs, not just System ASP? You could be teetering near an I/O overload and not know it! If you have multiple ASPs, use the ASP Busy monitor instead. Here’s why.
Article
High Availability Fail Tales (and How to Avoid Them)
By Kurt Thomas on Thu, 08/25/2016
Chasing a high availability state is a common goal for IBM i administrators and one that can be thwarted by a single issue left unattended. By sharing some of the most frequent tales of what went wrong from real-world environments, you’ll be able to avoid these same scenarios.
Blog
Three Layers of AP Automation—And How to Approach Them
Thu, 08/25/2016
Accounts payable departments run on documents—but documents don’t need to slow AP down. Read the article to learn more about AP automation.
Article
How Network Monitoring and Document Management Work Together
By Kevin Jackson on Wed, 08/24/2016
Maximize productivity and amp up your security by using network monitoring and document management solutions together.
Article
Monitoring the Demands of Fast Disk
By Kurt Thomas on Wed, 08/24/2016
The IT industry is decisively moving away from traditional hard disk drives (“platters”) in favor of Flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs). It’s a welcome change; it makes much more sense to circulate only electrons instead of disks of metal with electrons on them.
Article
Small but MIGHTY: Controlling the *CLS Object Type
By Kurt Thomas on Wed, 08/24/2016
While the instinct for administrators and IT managers is to always hunt down a culprit – a rogue job, an inactive journal receiver, or something else – sometimes the very building blocks of a common process, or rather the specifics that define processes, can be where the trouble at hand resides.
Blog
Concerns in Creating a Paperless Office
Thu, 08/18/2016
Identified as a key trend of the future and a way to improve business efficiency, the idea of a “paperless” office (or more realistically, a “less paper” office) is spreading relatively slowly. Why is that?
Article
Dealing with Temporary Files in WebDocs iSeries
Thu, 07/28/2016
WebDocs iSeries uses the IFS directory /RJSTEMP and the library RJSTEMP to store information and files temporarily. In general, it will attempt to clean up after itself, but there are situations which arise that do not perform clean up operations. As a result, files will gradually accumulate, taking up disk that could otherwise be used for other processes.
The RJSTEMP library
The RJSTEMP isn’t...