Resources

Fortra Webinar
On-Demand Webinar

IBM i Performance Week

By Chuck Losinski
Robot Monitor and Performance Navigator are powerhouses when it comes to performance monitoring and management. That’s why it’s essential for your team to understand how to harness their raw potential and put them to work so that nothing you deem critical slips through the cracks. This webinar series is your chance!
IBM i Automation
Guide

How to Get Started with IT Modernization

Modernization is more than simply switching from a green screen to a GUI. To have a truly modern IBM i data center, you must consider all areas of IT from your software and applications to your hardware and devices to the processes that support the whole operation. This guides helps you modernize your IBM i from the ground up.
IBM i Automation
Monitoring
On-Demand Webinar

The Two Faces of SQL on IBM i

By Chuck Losinski
Watch this webinar on how to tackle the two faces of SQL on IBM i. We demonstrate how you can both monitor SQL activity on your system while also creating user-defined SQL statements to retrieve and monitor nearly anything automatically for unlimited flexibility.
IBM i Automation
Article

The Importance of VIOS

Thu, 08/31/2023
VIOS is considered a standard in organizations running IBM i, AIX, and Linux workloads. But don’t put your business at risk by letting it run unchecked. Learn five areas you must be monitoring.
Monitoring
Product Video

Robot Monitor Product Overview and Demonstration

Wed, 07/26/2023
Watch this recording to get an overview of Robot Monitor’s key features – including SQL monitoring, customization to workloads, and the ability to create your own SQL-based monitor – as well as an inside look at how to operate Robot Monitor and customize its outputs to your liking.
Monitoring
Where does CPU go?
Article

Where Does CPU Go When It’s Missing?

By Kurt Thomas on Thu, 10/07/2021
Have you ever noticed that the CPU used by individual jobs does not add up to 100 percent? As it turns out, your jobs and subsystems are only part of the story. For the stunning conclusion, we return you to the Licensed Internal Code (LIC).
Monitoring
Guide

5th Annual IBM AIX Community Survey Findings

The AIX Community Survey, now in its fifth consecutive year, goes in-depth with IT teams to gain a unique perspective into how this platform is being used today and how teams envision using it in the future. Over the years, the respondents of the survey have expanded to include a variety of industries, geographies, and titles within IT. More than 100 IT professionals in North America, EMEA, and APAC participated in this year’s survey, and this input enables all of us to understand the role of AIX with new clarity.
Automation
Compliance
Monitoring
Blog

What Is NVMe?

By Randy Watson on Thu, 04/01/2021
NVMe is a communications interface plus high-performance protocol for accessing non-volatile memory. Learn more here.
Guide

Robot in Modern IBM i Environments

Robot systems management solutions can improve processes and enhance the return on investment for new technologies running in modern IBM i environments. Find out how.
IBM i Automation
Realize ROI with Robot
Blog

Realize ROI with Robot

By Tom Huntington on Sun, 03/28/2021
Robot has a reputation for providing high-quality systems management software and backing it up with great support. These additional benefits can help you justify the cost of automation at your company.
IBM i Automation
Monitoring
setting commands on VIOS
Article

VIOS Performance Monitoring Commands

By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 03/10/2021
You might think VIOS is set and forget, but it’s not. Luckily, VIOS includes a number of command line utilities to help you obtain performance-related information from your VIOS partitions.
Monitoring
Article

Monitoring Memory Thresholds on IBM i

By Chuck Losinski on Fri, 10/16/2020
Learn how to interpret the data you find on the Work with System Status (WRKSYSSTS) panel and how to set memory thresholds to avoid thrashing and optimize IBM i performance tuning.
Monitoring