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By Invitation Only: A Customer Exclusive Briefing
Join our IBM i experts as they discuss Fortra's new identity and IBM i product developments to look forward to.
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Eliminate Accounts Payable Inefficiencies
Watch this recording from our accounts payable (AP) automation expert Greg Schmidt to discover the simplicity that Webdocs can bring to your AP department.
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IBM i Performance Tips: Minimize Downtime and Maximize Resources
Discover how you can optimize your IBM i performance by improving the storage of your IBM i data, monitoring of performance data, and analysis of historical data to optimize performance and capacity planning.
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How to Upgrade to IBM i 7.5
During this webinar, Peter Graves joins IBM Power Champion Tom Huntington to share top planning tips, hardware and software prerequisites, and post-installation requirements—your upgrade isn’t complete until this last step is done!
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IBM i Automation Series: Job Scheduling
Watch this webinar series for your FREE opportunity to learn what every beginner should know about Robot Schedule software for IBM i (iSeries, AS/400) automation, plus tips and tricks for the veterans.
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Transform Accounts Payable Processes with AP Automation
Find out how to pay invoices faster, make vendors happy, and keep your budget on track.
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File Dependencies for Batch Processing
Learn how to optimize your workload by eliminating timer jobs in WRKJOBSCDE, Cron, and Windows Task Scheduler using Robot Schedule.
Article
[INFOGRAPHIC] Audit Day for a System Administrator
By Chuck Losinski on Mon, 11/30/2020
Whether your IBM i audit is internal or external, once a week or once a year, the reporting process wastes time that would be better spent on projects that improve business processes. Don’t let it.
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Automating AP with Completely Paperless Invoice Processing
A comprehensive Accounts Payable document solution will improve your data integrity, speed up your document routing, and make payment processing painless.
Article
Why Relying on Scripted Operations Can Be a Problem for Your Business
By Steve Brasen on Tue, 03/31/2020
Scripting provides a powerful platform to automate simple tasks, but overusing custom scripts is hazardous for your business.
Article
Backup Basics: Saving Your Data and Your Job
By Tom Huntington on Mon, 02/24/2020
You need a backup strategy to test your company’s disaster recovery plan and, despite its reputation for reliability, administrators still need to back up their IBM i. A sound backup strategy should also restore individual user objects to account for human error.
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How to Take a Planned Approach to Document and Forms Management for AP
Watch our on-demand webinar to learn the smartest way to implement document and forms management solutions for Accounts Payable (AP).
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How to Be Smart When Selecting a Job Scheduler
Watch this webinar with Fortra scheduling experts to learn which enterprise job scheduler is right for your environment.
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5 IBM i Job Scheduling Pain Points (and How to Solve Them)
Robot Schedule automatically and reliably runs millions of iSeries jobs for organizations all over the world every day. Watch this webinar to learn how.
Article
Comparing Different Methods for Calculating Health and Risk
By Per Bauer on Fri, 02/08/2019
How do you calculate IT health and risk?
There are different methods you can use, depending on your needs.
The most common methods for determining IT infrastructure health are:
Threshold comparison
Enhanced threshold comparison
Event detection
Variation from normal
Allocation comparison
Queuing theory for health
On the other hand, the most common methods for calculating IT infrastructure...
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A Roadmap for Consolidation
Mon, 02/04/2019
There are five key steps when planning a consolidation strategy. Considerations for each step are outlined below.
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AS/400 to IBM i: And We’re Just Getting Started
By Steve Will
Celebrate 30 years of innovation on IBM i with IBM’s Steve Will and Alison Butterill. Watch now!
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How to Automate Report Balancing Across Windows and IBM i Servers
By Chuck Losinski on Fri, 06/02/2017
Watch this short video to see how easy report balancing can be when using our integrated solution of Robot Schedule Enterprise and Automate.
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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.