On-Demand Webinar
Time to Terminate Manual 5250 Tasks
Your IBM i expert can't always be there. Learn how to harness their knowledge and automate interactive processes in your green screen IBM i applications.
On-Demand Webinar
5 Reasons Developers Love Robot Schedule
Could an automation tool like Robot job scheduling software for IBM i help your application development team be more productive? Yes, actually. Watch this webinar to see how.
On-Demand Webinar
Job Scheduling: Basic to Advanced
By Pat Cameron
Fortra offers two automation platforms to handle the complex scheduling needs of modern enterprises: AutoMate and Skybot. Join this live webinar to learn about using these solutions to orchestrate processes from the server down to the user’s desktop.
On-Demand Webinar
The New Automation Strategy: A Unified Approach to Job Scheduling and Process Automation
By Pat Cameron
These days IT departments are responsible for automating processes and applications across every department in the organization. Find out how to leverage automation solutions from Fortra to easily consolidate your automation.
On-Demand Webinar
Practical Task Scheduling Deployment
By Pat Cameron
One of the best things about the UNIX environment (aside from being stable and efficient) is the vast array of software tools available to help you do your job. Traditionally, a UNIX tool does only one thing, but does that one thing very well. For example, grep is very easy to use and can search vast amounts of data quickly. The find tool can find a particular file or files based on all kinds of...
On-Demand Webinar
The True Cost of Workload Automation
By Pat Cameron
In this video you'll learn about the ROI of workload automation and how to make sure you’re paying the right price for your IT needs.
On-Demand Webinar
Efficient IT Management: Automating the Enterprise from Server to Desktop
By Pat Cameron
Discover the value of a unified approach to enterprise process automation.
On-Demand Webinar
Containing the Costs of Workload Automation
By Pat Cameron
Containing the costs of data center automation is key. We'll show you how.
Guide
Controlling SQL Updates Using Powertech Exit Point Manager for IBM i
Over the years, users have relied on commands like STRSQL and RUNSQL to provide instant and powerful access to the data on their Power Systems™ servers. All types of users—from programmers to system administrators to end users—use these commands as their primary interface for extracting and updating data.
However, allowing a user to view, update, and even delete data without any control by the...
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
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!
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.
Blog
IT Security Compliance 101
By Robin Tatam on Sun, 08/21/2016
In this compliance 101 primer, we'll look at three high-profile breaches from the past year, each of which shows what can go wrong when data oversight isn't up to snuff. Along the way, we'll discuss some basic fixes that can help shore up network defenses.
Guide
13 Tips to Write Secure Applications and Boost IBM i Security
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.
Article
Trigger Events with a File in Robot Schedule 12
By Tom Huntington on Fri, 08/19/2016
Robot Schedule version 12 makes monitoring for file events and setting them up as dependencies a very simple process.
Blog
User Interfaces: GUI vs. WUI
By Tom Huntington on Tue, 08/16/2016
You might be asking yourself, “What’s a WUI?” At Robot, WUI stands for web user interface, and we think it has some big benefits that are giving the GUI a run for its money.
Blog
Who's Afraid of IASPs?
By Tom Huntington on Tue, 08/16/2016
As IASP technology continues to grow, so will its uses for high availability (HA) and backups. The result of that will be shrinking hardware costs and complexity and increased redundancy.