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How Mobile Data Access Improves Business Operations

It seems nearly everyone in certain parts of the world now has a smartphone, tablet, or both, and these devices aren't just for fun and games. Organizations are putting devices to work in the drive to streamline processes, gain insight into operations, and ensure continuity.
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SEQUEL Users Go Mobile

SEQUEL Users Go Mobile Mobile devices (iPad, iPhone, PC Tablets) are now in the hands of over 89% of corporate professionals. Whether companies are buying them for their employees or the employee has decided to invest in one on their own, the fact remains that mobile data access is no longer a luxury; it’s becoming a requirement. The right data access solution for a mobile device allows the user...
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How to Quickly and Dynamically Summarize Your Data with Client Tables

A SEQUEL Client Table is an interactive solution for dynamic Desktop Online Analytical Processing (Desktop OLAP or DOLAP) and cube analysis. With a Client Table, it’s possible for you to build client/server views that allow end users to explore, summarize, and pivot large quantities of data quickly from IBM i and other databases. Once a Client Table is displayed, users can perform interactive...
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Getting the Most Out of DB2

Used the right way, structured query language (SQL) can be an advantage for any organization's operations. Used the wrong way, it can be a headache for IT professionals.  A majority of computing operations are dependent on the ability to access information from a database. That's where SQL queries come in. So the efficiency of SQL queries in DB2 can dramatically impact the tasks running on IBM i...
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The IBM i Partitioning Paradox: Defined

Managing big data requires making some big decisions: how to store, query, and report on the constantly increasing stream of data. Although the practice of ‘data at scale’ or table partitioning is popular on IBM i, it creates a partitioning paradox that often adds complications to efficiently querying data.
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SECURITY DASHBOARDS: How IT Can Use Data to Lower Risk

Data security has been a prominent feature in recent technology headlines as the costs associated with data breaches continue to escalate. Business and IT leaders alike have become all too aware of the need to protect valuable information, but questions of how - and to what extent protection is needed- are common sticking points. The rule of least privilege has been a long-held strategy that...
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Discover Automate's New Capabilities for Office 365

With the eagerly anticipated release of Microsoft’s cloud-based service, Office 365, on June 28, Network Automation immediately set to work on ensuring the current Microsoft Office automation facilities in Automate were enhanced to provide its customers with equivalent automation capabilities.
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AutoMate Bridges the Gap Between Disparate Applications

Automate from Fortra provides application security, streamlined communication including sending emails and text messages to IT regarding successful or failed tasks, error handling, and flexibility and versatility via its highly coveted development interface (no programming or scripting needed).
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mySQL and the SQL Query Action

Automate can easily interact with a mySQL server and its associated databases through the SQL Query and SQL Stored Procedure actions. The document explains how to setup a mySQL data source connection through Automate that can be used to run queries against a mySQL database.
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Debugging Tasks

We'll explore some of the techniques you can use to debug tasks in the Automate Task Builder. Several features available in Automate 6.1 can help make this an easier process.