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Secret Capabilities of Robot Schedule Revealed

By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 01/31/2017
We recently surveyed our Robot Schedule technical support group for “ah ha!” moments that they’ve helped customers realize over the past few years. These tips from our tech gurus have helped customers automate jobs that needed to check a data area before running, track non-Robot jobs for reporting purposes, and check the status of a file before running a job.
Automation
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Article

What Makes the Good Morning Report So Good?

By Chuck Losinski on Mon, 01/30/2017
There is nothing like waking up to find the latest news delivered right to your doorstep, waiting for you on the printer, or sent to you electronically. For years, our customers have started their days reading the Good Morning report from Robot Schedule.
Automation
Monitoring
On-Demand Webinar
On-Demand Webinar

Top Tips to Increase Programmer Productivity

By Heath Kath
You don’t need to be reminded that your time is valuable. Redundant processes, fumbling between programs, struggling to set up and test time-sensitive apps all require time that you could be spending in much more productive ways. In this session, we’ll show you how Abstract helps you eliminate busy work and streamline the development process. We’ll also explore how Anydate allows user jobs or...
Automation
On-Demand Webinar
On-Demand Webinar

Streamline Your Development Process with Abstract

By Heath Kath
Your time is limited. You can’t spend it on redundant processes, fumbling between programs, or struggling to cross-reference your development environment. Your development staff could be spending their time being much more productive. All development projects, large or small, require control: Control of program changes Control of developer time Control of processes through use of flowcharts...
Automation
On-Demand Webinar
On-Demand Webinar

Deploy Robot Automation Dashboards with Sequel

By Chuck Losinski
Sequel Data Access isn’t just for compiling sales numbers or creating easy-to-read dashboards. It’s perfectly equipped to compile real-time performance indicators using a detailed operations history from your Robot products. Track results from Robot Schedule, Robot Save, and Robot Console through automated, graphical dashboards, such as: Number of Robot Schedule jobs run, completion statuses, and...
IBM i Business Intelligence
Automation
On-Demand Webinar
On-Demand Webinar

Stop Feeding IBM i Performance Hogs

By Chuck Losinski
Runaway jobs and processes like the many-headed QZDASOINIT beast are infamous for gobbling up resources. Watch this webinar and learn how to round up runaway database server jobs and more to protect system performance.
Monitoring
On-Demand Webinar
On-Demand Webinar

The Secret to Getting Automation off the Ground

By Chuck Losinski
You’ve been running your computer systems through a mishmash of manual run books, built-in schedulers, multiple homegrown scripts, and tribal knowledge for years. Let’s be honest. What’s harder to manage: your systems or your patchwork solutions?
Automation
On-Demand Webinar
On-Demand Webinar

i Can Find Your Performance Bottlenecks

By Stacy Benfield
An understanding of IBM i Wait Accounting combined with knowledge of your partition’s “run-wait” characteristics helps you focus on improving the overall performance of your partition and leads to making better resource decisions.
Monitoring
On-Demand Webinar
On-Demand Webinar

Next Generation Job Scheduling

By Sara Williams
Have you seen the new web interface for Robot Schedule? It contains current user favorites, including Schedule Activity Monitor (SAM), plus exclusive new features for diagraming job flows and sharing dashboards.
Automation