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Content Intelligence: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

By Greg J. Schmidt on Fri, 02/18/2022

There are many different strategies a company can employ to help drive their organization to the next level. But why not use what you already have in your hands? Connect your content, documents, and information together to drive your business to the next level.

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How Legacy Processing in IT Leads to Downtime on IBM i

By Tom Huntington on Mon, 10/25/2021

Why haven’t IT processes kept pace with business changes? Why are you still suffering from downtime as the result of human error? Read this article to see how legacy processing methods are still leading to downtime today—and what you can do to stop it.

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Google Forms May Be Free, But Does it Give Your Organization All It Needs?

By Greg J. Schmidt on Thu, 07/22/2021

With tighter budgets, everyone is looking for ways to optimize costs. But sometimes a free tool isn’t the answer—especially when it comes to electronic forms. While the lack of a price tag might make Google Forms look like a good option for your business, ask yourself: are you getting everything you need from a forms solution? Before you make your decision, check out these three reasons why a...

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Adding Flexibility to IBM i Monitoring Without Compromising Availability

By Kurt Thomas on Tue, 06/01/2021

To cope with system issues, you want easy yet comprehensive solutions that handle your performance, messaging, and remote management needs, but what you really need are integrated solutions for universal control. See where Robot Monitor fits in.

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Best Automation Practices for Robot Console

By Tom Huntington on Mon, 05/17/2021

When you apply rules to system events, automation software like Robot Console works like the autopilot on a boat or plane—it steers the system through the night or the weekend while you rest.

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Be in Control of Your ERP

By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 03/31/2021

Many ERP packages have built-in schedulers. However, these schedulers are typically not flexible or robust enough to meet the needs of even the smallest data center.

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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.

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Too Many Job Schedulers, Not Enough Substance

By Tom Huntington on Wed, 11/20/2019

How many separate job schedulers are you juggling? Don’t let your important processing into a scheduling circus. Stick with a single, sophisticated solution.

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Why Should Developers Care About Workload Automation?

By Tom Huntington on Wed, 11/20/2019

Developers, don’t let late-night distress calls from the NOC disrupt your sleep. Workload automation software is not just for operators any more.

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Lessons Learned from IBM's Native Scheduler

By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 11/20/2019

Your shop runs more than 30 jobs each day. Your jobs must communicate across IBM i and another OS. You need to monitor them and generate reports for audits or SLAs. Do your existing job schedulers really meet your needs?

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Built-in Commands Make Your Enterprise Scheduling Environment Even More Robust

By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 11/20/2019

Looking for better ways to integrate your Windows, AIX/UNIX, and Linux environments with the Robot Schedule scheduling system? Robot Schedule Enterprise commands can enhance your integration experience.

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Mobile Dashboards for IBM i Monitoring

By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 08/07/2019

Robot Console leverages the power of Fortra' dashboards containing browser access! Mobile-friendly dashboards allow you to combine key message summary and resource status data into a single, intuitive view. Read on to learn more.

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Two-Way Message Response with Robot

By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 05/01/2019

You have the afternoon off—but not the responsibility of monitoring your system for issues. This includes responding to application and system messages as they occur on your production IBM i jobs. You don’t want to carry your laptop around just in case you need to VPN back to answer a message that is waiting on your month-end process. What option do you have?

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Interacting with Powertech SIEM Agent for IBM i

By Robin Tatam on Thu, 03/21/2019

Your organization has invested in a security information event manager, or SIEM, to receive and analyse security and event log information from a variety of servers. Now they want to also get this information from their IBM Power Systems server.

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Mobile Management for Your Job Schedule

By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 02/13/2019

Your job schedule has never looked so good! Learn about four must-have features exclusive to the web interface for Robot Schedule.

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The Many Ways Robot Supports SNMP

By Chuck Losinski on Fri, 02/23/2018

Many devices send status updates using SNMP or simple network management protocol. Make sure you’re getting the message. Read on to see how Robot supports SNMP.

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Message Received?

By Chuck Losinski on Fri, 02/23/2018

When was the last time you reviewed your Robot Console message automation? If you’re out of practice, let’s take a look at what you can do to maximize your message automation and reports.