Guide
Making the Data Integration Process More Efficient
It is important to understand the challenges that many companies face with data integration so that the appropriate tool can be used to address them.
Article
Managing Server and Network Outages with an Enterprise Job Scheduler
Wed, 03/15/2017
Dealing with planned or unplanned downtime can be laborious and detrimental to your business. Find out which features your enterprise scheduler needs to efficiently deal with IT outages.
Article
Scheduling for the People (Not for Computers)
Wed, 03/15/2017
If you understand the capabilities of different job schedulers, you’ll know the extent to which your company would benefit from a more advanced enterprise job scheduler.
Article
The IT Job Scheduling Pyramid: Building Blocks of Job Scheduling
Wed, 03/15/2017
Automate Schedule helps automate job scheduling at all levels of complexity. To prioritize scheduling tasks, visualize an inverted pyramid.
Article
Workload Automation: A Key Tool in a Fast Paced Tech Landscape
By Dan Twing on Tue, 03/14/2017
Workload automation is evolving to allow IT to move faster and integrate new technologies. What innovations would you like to see?
Article
Orchestrating a Symphony of Application Automation
By Steve Brasen on Tue, 03/14/2017
An enterprise job scheduler is key to orchestrating disparate applications and complex business processes.
Article
Why Everyone Has a Crush on Linux—even IBM
Tue, 03/14/2017
Linux helps enterprises make IT more scalable and flexible. Supplemented by dedicated, Linux-compatible tools for job scheduling—like Automate Schedule—put organizations in a prime position to streamline operations to meet changing requirements.
Guide
Powertech Password Self Help for IBM i: Self-Service Password Reset
Resetting disabled passwords is an inevitable activity. Read this guide to find out you can reduce password management costs and increase efficiency with an easy-to-use tool that allows IBM i users to reset their own passwords.
Guide
Using the Cloud for Mission-Critical Systems
In order to make cloud computing highly available and easy to use, there has to be an infrastructure in the background, like enterprise scheduling software.
Article
The Modern Alternative to Authority Adoption
By Robin Tatam on Wed, 03/08/2017
There are several considerations with authority adoption. Each is important but can usually be accommodated. But what is the effect if the program owner has the same or less privileges than the user that called the program?
Article
Stay on Top of Security with Security Scan
By Robin Tatam on Wed, 03/08/2017
Security and compliance adherence has elevated in criticality over the past few years and has now taken its rightful place as a primary IT initiative, alongside virtualization and disaster preparedness. The necessity for better data protection has landed front-and-center in the public eye following some of the largest data breaches on record.
Article
What's New in Security for IBM i 7.2
By Robin Tatam on Wed, 03/08/2017
IBM i security expert Robin Tatam covers the new security functionality added to IBM i 7.2
Article
The Road To Security Starts with a Security Scan
By Robin Tatam on Wed, 03/08/2017
Sometimes, there are known vulnerabilities that clearly need to be mitigated as soon as possible—such as application users running with *ALLOBJ special authority. But, often there isn’t a thorough understanding of what’s wrong with a server’s configuration or what should be addressed first.
Article
How Object Integrity Scanning Enhances IBM i Security
Tue, 03/07/2017
IBM i has had superior built-in security features from the beginning. However, as internetworking increases and open protocols and servers become the norm, additional protection is needed.
Guide
Protecting Your Data—How Much Security Is Enough?
As organizations become increasingly aware of the need to protect their data, the question that needs to be answered is how much security is enough? Unfortunately, that’s one of those “it depends” questions. Each organization must consider their own requirements before confidently answering that question. This document discusses those considerations.
Guide
The Business Case for Focusing on IBM i Security: Close Security Gaps to Avoid a Data Breach
The cost of a data breach can throw businesses into turmoil and derail careers. And that cost continues to rise.
The potential for significant damage is massive on servers like IBM's Power Systems servers running IBM i, because they’re widely used for database management, financial data processing, and business intelligence—all mission-critical applications and workloads.
While servers running...
Article
Writing a Secure IBM i Application (and 13 ways to check it twice)
By Robin Tatam on Tue, 02/28/2017
Barely a day passes without new headlines reporting another cyber attack, policy violation, or data breach. Secretly, we breathe a sigh of relief that it happened to someone else, but most of us know that we’ll all eventually feel the impact in some capacity.
Guide
Download “Identity & Access Management for IBM i”
Insiders are responsible for 34 percent of data breaches—and insiders are also the most difficult threat to control control on IBM i. You can't lock them out completely because your IBM i users need at least some level of access to do their jobs.
So, how do you ensure users have only the access they need without overburdening IT with manual processes that...
Guide
Build vs. Buy: The Argument Against Developing a Solution for Exit Point Security
Before you commit the resources to develop an in-house solution for exit point security, read our list of issues to consider. You might decide it’s neither easy nor cost-effective to set up and monitor your own in-house solution.
Guide
Anti Malware for Linux, AIX, and IBM i Servers
When Malware Attacks Your IBM i, AIX, and Linux Servers Guide
Malware and ransomware attacks have increased, halting day-to-day operations and bringing organizations to their knees. Businesses know anti malware is essential to protecting PCs from malicious programs, but many don’t realize the value of server-level protection until the damage is done.
This guide examines the real-world...