On-Demand Webinar
Execute Sequel Scripts and Reports Automatically—with Robot Schedule
Learn how to turn your Sequel scripts and reports into an automated job stream.
On-Demand Webinar
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.
On-Demand Webinar
Go with the Flow: Intro to Intermapper Flows NetFlow Monitoring
Get a complete overview of the benefits and features of Intermapper Flows, a NetFlow analyzer that works helps you identify bandwidth hogs and traffic congestion.
Article
Detect Devices Your Way in Intermapper 6.1
By Kevin Jackson on Thu, 11/24/2016
Intermapper 6.1 makes detecting new devices easier, more accurate, and faster than ever. Get a full review of Intermapper 6.1’s features and how to try them out.
Guide
10 Steps to Streamline the Deployment of Network Monitoring Software for SMBs
10 tips to help small to medium-sized businesses save time during the installation and configuration of network monitoring software.
Guide
Top 8 Reasons SMBs Need to Monitor their Networks
Read the top 8 reasons small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) should implement network monitoring tools.
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.
Case Study
Halcyon Helps Computacenter Deliver Efficient Managed Services
Computacenter is Europe’s leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services. They offer consulting services as well as implementation and operation services for networks and data center infrastructures on or off client premises and in the cloud.
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.
Article
Job Schedule Security Options in Robot Schedule
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 08/16/2016
IBM i is one of the most secure systems in the world. Don’t take that security for granted by leaving Robot Schedule vulnerable when it could be easily remediated.