Resources

Guide

Why You Need an Enterprise Scheduler

The best way to resolve the issue of multiple schedulers is with an enterprise scheduler that can build cross-platform job streams to handle the different applications.
Article

Why Everyone Has a Crush on Linux—even IBM

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.
Blog

Does Your Business Belong in the Cloud?

The cloud is all about access. It’s about getting access on-demand, access to resources needed for your growing demands, and controlling who has access to your information. Everybody is talking about it, but is the cloud the right answer for your business needs? And if so, which one?
Case Study

Hershey Entertainment Quickly Encrypts Credit Card Data with Powertech Encryption for IBM i

Hershey Entertainment & Resorts is a privately held company located in the tourist center of Hershey, Pennsylvania, and has entertainment, resort and commercial divisions. Earlier this year, Hershey learned that because the entertainment and resort operations accept credit cards for payment, they needed the information stored by their box office ticketing and reservations applications to be...
Case Study

Field-level Encryption Helps Retail Chain Achieve PCI Compliance

Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores, a retail travel stop chain with over 210 locations in 34 U.S. states, processes approximately 200,000 credit card transactions on a daily basis. Needing to meet PCI standards, Love’s found in Powertech Encryption for IBM i a product to encrypt credit card numbers in a way that would satisfy PCI compliance auditors. “We need to be able to access credit card...
Blog

Looking for a Cron Replacement? Search No Longer.

Crontab scheduling simply can’t support a growing and changing enterprise. Read on to find out how to seamlessly replace cron with enterprise job scheduling software—and never look back.
On-Demand Webinar

Stop Feeding IBM i Performance Hogs

Runaway jobs and processes like the many-headed QZDASOINIT beast are infamous for gobbling up resources. Watch this webinar and learn how to round up runaway database server jobs and more to protect system performance.
On-Demand Webinar

IBM i Monitoring by the Dashboard Light

Your network operations center is full of monitors, and each monitor might have multiple screens where technicians search to find system and application information. It’s time to get a single, graphical view to visualize performance and processes. Watch this webinar to discover Robot Monitor dashboards.
On-Demand Webinar

SQL-Based Monitoring with Robot Monitor

Part of what makes Robot Monitor so powerful is the ability to perform custom monitoring across system and application values via user-defined SQL statements. Get the real-time visibility and historical data you need to keep performance issues under control.