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On-Demand Webinar

AP 101: How to Automate Your AP Processes and Improve ROI

By Greg J. Schmidt

Tired of time-consuming AP processes? Watch this webinar to learn how to automate them with a document management system!

On-Demand Webinar

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.

On-Demand Webinar

The S.M.A.R.T. Way to Align IT and Business Strategy

By Kurt Thomas

It’s one thing for an IT team to develop a strategy and quite another to justify the investment by proving that strategy is well-executed and working as intended. Automated monitoring is the answer.

Blog

What Should I Look for in a High Availability Solution?

By Matt Bresnan on Tue, 12/06/2016

High availability is a buyer’s world. With so many different solutions on the market, you shouldn’t be shy about shopping around until you find the right fit. Follow these tips for selecting your HA solution.

Blog

What Does IBM i 7.3 Have for System Administrators?

Fri, 11/18/2016

Wondering what new features IBM i 7.3 (V7R3) has in store for system administrators? See our list of top picks in this blog post.

Article

How Do I Know High Availability Is For Me?

By Tom Huntington on Fri, 11/11/2016

IBM i high availability has been at the top of your wish list for a while. Don’t let budget hold you back any longer. Discover how affordable HA can be.

Guide

The IBM i High Availability Handbook

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.

Blog

AS400 Monitoring Horror Stories

By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 10/05/2016

Everyone loves a good scary story by the campfire, so gather around your servers for warmth and take a lesson from these true tales of monitoring misfortunes.

Article

Application Modernization: An Interview with Trevor Perry

By Trevor Perry on Fri, 09/16/2016

Making your business applications modern goes way beyond the GUI. It’s about providing a superior user experience from front to back, IT to end user. Trevor Perry tells all in this article.

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.

Article

Enhanced Resource Monitoring with Robot Console

By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 08/30/2016

Robot Console has some exciting features for resource monitoring. You can automate the verification of your system resources and more!

Article

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.

Blog

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.

Article

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.

Article

Continuous Performance Data—Without Big Overhead

By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 08/30/2016

There are two sides to every Robot Network. It offers centralized control of the Robot software running on your IBM i partitions as well as performance monitoring and exception-based management across your environment.

Article

File Monitoring and Other Features of Robot Schedule 12

By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 08/30/2016

Let’s say you have a bank transmission or FTP process that occurs randomly throughout the day. How do you monitor that activity? OPAL? CLP scripts? Not anymore!

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

Automate the Un-Automatable

By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 08/30/2016

Automated job scheduling means your batch jobs run smoothly and your stress level goes down, but that’s only half the battle if you’re using labor-intensive, interactive applications that require you to fill out screens to submit a job.

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.

AP 101: How to Automate Your AP Processes and Improve ROI

The Three Levels of AP Automation

The S.M.A.R.T. Way to Align IT and Business Strategy

What Should I Look for in a High Availability Solution?

What Does IBM i 7.3 Have for System Administrators?

How Do I Know High Availability Is For Me?

The IBM i High Availability Handbook

Insight On Demand: One-Click IBM i Performance Investigations

AS400 Monitoring Horror Stories

Application Modernization: An Interview with Trevor Perry

The Commercial Power of SQL-Based Monitoring

Enhanced Resource Monitoring with Robot Console

Does Your Robot Schedule Have Old Jobs That Never Run?

Do You Need Enterprise Scheduling Software?

Can File Events Automatically Populate Reserved Command Variables?

Continuous Performance Data—Without Big Overhead

File Monitoring and Other Features of Robot Schedule 12

Big Data? BIG DEAL!

Automate the Un-Automatable

Astronauts Rely on Checklists (and So Should You)

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