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Ask An Engineer: PowerHA FAQ

By Brian Nordland on Mon, 07/15/2019
Brian Nordland, principal software engineer for PowerHA at Fortra, takes a break from coding to answer some important questions about PowerHA.
IBM i Automation
Article

Take Your Work to Warp Drive!

By Chuck Losinski on Thu, 05/16/2019
If your mission is work management, IBM i is the best starship in the fleet. Routing certain types of work into subsystems and memory pools, separating dissimilar work, and giving jobs the appropriate CPU time—this is work management the Windows world can only dream about.
Monitoring
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HelpSystems (now Fortra) Rebrands Automate BPA Server to Automate Plus

Wed, 05/01/2019
Fortra is excited to announce that Automate BPA Server, our powerful enterprise business process automation (BPA) software, is now Automate Plus. All the features you know and love in Automate BPA Server are still available but Automate Plus aims to provide a more robust set of automation tools. ...
Automation
Article

Two-Way Message Response with Robot

By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 05/01/2019
You have the afternoon off—but not the responsibility of monitoring your system for issues. This includes responding to application and system messages as they occur on your production IBM i jobs. You don’t want to carry your laptop around just in case you need to VPN back to answer a message that is waiting on your month-end process. What option do you have?
Monitoring
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Automate Website Monitoring in Less Than 10 Minutes

Mon, 04/15/2019
How can a 6-step automation task provide peace of mind when it comes to website monitoring? At Fortra, our web team works to make sure that people will always be able to access our website to find solutions to their IT problems. But they don’t work 24/7. Even with the team spread across different time zones, if a critical error occurs when no one is around—or that no one knows about—it can’t be...
Case Study

Oregon School Boards Association Uses RPA to Maintain Critical Policies

The Oregon School Boards Association is a non-profit member services agency for more than 200 locally elected boards serving school districts, education service districts, and community colleges. OSBA helps locally-elected volunteers fulfill their complex public education roles. Watch the video to get a snapshot of their story and read on for more details. ...
Automation