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Enterprise Job Scheduling Makes Your Job More Manageable
Automated job schedulers should make all the jobs in your environment more manageable, including your own.
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Next Generation Job Scheduling
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.
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How to Turn End-of-Month into Just Another Day
Wish you could make month-end just like any other day in the data center? Heartland Financial did.
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IBM i Meets Mobile Technology
According to the 2015 IBM i Marketplace Survey, mobile access to IBM i data ranks among the top five IT concerns for the near future. Robot is here to make your mobile initiative easier.
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How to Tie IBM i to the Rest of Your Network
By Mel Beckman
Learn the top technologies to get IBM i off the bench and into your network, including SSH, PASE, and Bash shell scripting.
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Execute Sequel Scripts and Reports Automatically—with Robot Schedule
Learn how to turn your Sequel scripts and reports into an automated job stream.
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Business Process Automation with Robot
Typical “computerized” business processes are a combination of multiple schedulers, operational scripts, CL programs, and manual file checking, all backed up with the trusty runbook. Is there a better way to manage business processes? You bet!
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Keep Your IBM i Network Humming with Instrumentation
By Mel Beckman
Well-run data centers monitor their servers and networks for early signs of impending issues, but doing this requires the proper tools.
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Never Worry About a Late Backup Again!
Data security and storage expert Glenn Haley joins us to discuss how VTL helps you.
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Quick and Easy IBM i Disk Space Management
Studies show that the amount of data stored worldwide will grow by 4,300% within 7 years. 80% of that growth is on enterprise servers like your IBM i. If you want to be prepared to manage that kind of big data, watch this webinar!
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AP 101: How to Automate Your AP Processes and Improve ROI
Tired of time-consuming AP processes? Watch this webinar to learn how to automate them with a document management system!
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The Three Levels of AP Automation
By Bill Whalen
Is your company ready to automate its AP processes? Which level will best meet your needs: simple, advanced, or full? Watch this presentation to learn how to choose the best fit for your company.
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iSeries Penetration Testing
Sun, 12/11/2016
Simple penetration tests help determine if a policy breach will be prevented and ensure that interested parties receive alert notifications. Failed tests might be indicative of a problem with product activation, or an incorrect or outdated Exit Point Manager IBM i rule set.
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What’s New in IBM i Security in V7R3 and V7R2
Thu, 12/08/2016
IBM has provided us with two powerful and very exciting security enhancements in the last two versions of IBM i. Get the details on the new security features.
Guide
Download "How IT Professionals Can Navigate SOX Compliance"
Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) is impossible without IT professionals, but translating this law into IT action items is a challenge.
With penalties up to $10 million fines and even prison time, following SOX—and proving you're compliant—is vital.
This compliance guide breaks down the most important aspects of SOX that affect IT professionals and focuses on what you need to know to get...
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Download "How IT Professionals Can Navigate HIPAA Compliance" Guide
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is one of today’s most common compliance mandates, but translating this law into IT action items is a challenge.
As fines increase and more audits are scheduled, figuring out how which data HIPAA protects and how to bring your system into compliance is more important than ever.
This compliance guide breaks down some of the thorniest...
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Does Your Robot Schedule Have Old Jobs That Never Run?
By Tom Huntington on Tue, 08/30/2016
When it comes to cleaning up these old Robot Schedule jobs, the best way is to use a SQL statement that you can run from STRSQL. This article will show you how.
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Do You Need Enterprise Scheduling Software?
By Tom Huntington on Tue, 08/30/2016
Job scheduling was simpler when you only needed to worry about your IBM i (AS400) server and its batch processes, but several dynamics have changed over the past decade which have forced us into worrying about processes on other platforms.
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Can File Events Automatically Populate Reserved Command Variables?
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 08/30/2016
A powerful feature of Robot Schedule file monitoring is the ability to capture the file name and path information, and use it in a file transfer, copy or delete operation, or combination of commands.
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Is Your Boss an Automation Skeptic?
By Tom Huntington on Mon, 08/29/2016
There is little doubt among IT experts as to the potential benefits of implementing automation tools at deeper levels within the data center environment. Yet adoption rates have not always mirrored this optimism. Especially among the small business crowd, automation is still seen as something that is "nice to have" as opposed to mission-critical.