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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.
Automation
Article
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.
IBM i Automation
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Blog

Concerns in Creating a Paperless Office

Thu, 08/18/2016
Identified as a key trend of the future and a way to improve business efficiency, the idea of a “paperless” office (or more realistically, a “less paper” office) is spreading relatively slowly. Why is that?
Automation
Web Based GUI
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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.
IBM i Automation
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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.
IBM i Automation
Guide
Guide

Download “How IT Professionals Can Navigate PCI DSS Compliance” Guide

    The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) applies to every organization that processes credit or debit card information. This includes merchants and third-party service providers that store, process, or transmit credit card data. The launch of PCI DSS helped expose serious security shortcomings, failures to follow security best...
Compliance
IT Infrastructure Protection
Article
Article

Get a Handle on Your Job Stream with Forecasting

By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 08/16/2016
A Robot Schedule forecast shows you the run activity scheduled for all Robot Schedule jobs over a time period that you specify. Robot Schedule uses the job schedule, job completion history, and any information you add for user jobs, remote prerequisites, and members of remote groups to make its forecast.
IBM i Automation
Article
Article

Robot and FlashCopy

By Tom Huntington on Tue, 08/16/2016
Last month, Chuck Stupca (retired IBMer) and Chuck Losinski (Fortra) presented a webinar discussing FlashCopy for IBM i. Based on the attendance, it looks like this is a very important topic for many of you so I wanted to explain how FlashCopy ties to Robot products.
IBM i Automation
Article
Article

Dealing with Temporary Files in WebDocs iSeries

Thu, 07/28/2016
WebDocs iSeries uses the IFS directory /RJSTEMP and the library RJSTEMP to store information and files temporarily. In general, it will attempt to clean up after itself, but there are situations which arise that do not perform clean up operations. As a result, files will gradually accumulate, taking up disk that could otherwise be used for other processes. The RJSTEMP library ...
IBM i Automation
Article
Article

Advanced Troubleshooting in WebDocs iSeries

Thu, 07/28/2016
As a WebDocs iSeries administrator, if something goes wrong your users will look to you to find, and fix, the matter. Simply knowing where to look when an initial error message is unclear can resolve a huge percentage of difficulties.
IBM i Automation