The systems that businesses rely on today are increasingly complex and challenging to manage without sophisticated job scheduling tools. According to the annual IBM i Marketplace Survey Results, only 22 percent of IBM i shops are running the IBM i operating system exclusively. 68 percent are also running the Windows OS, another 56 percent are running Linux, and 26 percent are running AIX. That...

As a system engineer, I’ve done hundreds of demos and helped many companies set up their IBM i monitoring. I’ve developed a pretty good idea of what people want to be most aware of on IBM i, and it’s this: Are my applications running OK? This makes sense because, ultimately, IBM i is a very well-made tool for running your applications. In turn, you want to keep your applications running because...

You’ve known for years that you need a more sophisticated scheduling tool for automating the applications and administrative tasks running on the servers in your data center. Cron, Windows Task Scheduler, and the built-in, native IBM i job schedule entries don’t allow dependencies, have no reporting or notification options, and allow no flexibility around dynamically calculating parameter values...