On-Demand Webinar
Enterprise Job Scheduling Makes Your Job More Manageable
Automated job schedulers should make all the jobs in your environment more manageable, including your own.
On-Demand Webinar
Next Generation Job Scheduling
Have you seen the new web interface for Robot Schedule? It contains current user favorites, including Schedule Activity Monitor (SAM), plus exclusive new features for diagraming job flows and sharing dashboards.
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IBM i Meets Mobile Technology
According to the 2015 IBM i Marketplace Survey, mobile access to IBM i data ranks among the top five IT concerns for the near future. Robot is here to make your mobile initiative easier.
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Execute Sequel Scripts and Reports Automatically—with Robot Schedule
Learn how to turn your Sequel scripts and reports into an automated job stream.
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Business Process Automation with Robot
Typical “computerized” business processes are a combination of multiple schedulers, operational scripts, CL programs, and manual file checking, all backed up with the trusty runbook. Is there a better way to manage business processes? You bet!
On-Demand Webinar
What’s New in Robot Schedule V12?
See firsthand the flexibility that file monitoring brings to your schedule by allowing event-driven scheduling based on file creation, deletion, and file size.
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.
Case Study
Major Steel Supplier Strikes Gold with a Document and Forms Management Solution and Superb Support
Paperwork and steel go hand-in-hand for one major steel supplier (MSS) with locations across North America. Every piece of steel they ship includes paperwork assuring customers of the quality of the product they’re receiving.But MSS had a problem: their processes were keeping them from meeting customer expectations. It was time to make a change.The Paperwork ProblemPre-printed forms and Dot matrix...
Blog
3 Easy Steps to Kickstart Your Electronic Document Management Journey
By Greg J. Schmidt on Mon, 11/14/2016
Not sure where to begin with electronic document management? Start here. Take three easy steps and make document management simple again.
Blog
What Should I Expect in a Document Management Implementation?
By Greg J. Schmidt on Mon, 10/10/2016
Document management implementations aren’t “one size fits all.” But successful implementations do have one thing in common…
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.
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.