Guide
How to Automate Enterprise Scheduling
Following a specific plan for automating your enterprise schedule ensures greater success for your implementation.
Article
Getting Started with Your Automate Schedule Free Trial
Mon, 03/20/2017
Are you ready to test Automate Schedule in your environment? Here's what you need to know to get the most out of your free trial.
Article
Best Reasons for a Web Browser User Interface
Mon, 03/20/2017
Ultimately, a web-based product allows you to produce software faster and get new features and versions out to customers at a better pace.
Guide
Beyond Cron: How to Know When You've Outgrown Cron Scheduling
Cron is a useful tool, but for today’s large, interconnected enterprises it has its limitations. Modern enterprise job scheduling tools offer superior functionality, ease of use, and a more modern, graphical user interface.
Guide
Making the Data Integration Process More Efficient
It is important to understand the challenges that many companies face with data integration so that the appropriate tool can be used to address them.
Article
Managing Server and Network Outages with an Enterprise Job Scheduler
Wed, 03/15/2017
Dealing with planned or unplanned downtime can be laborious and detrimental to your business. Find out which features your enterprise scheduler needs to efficiently deal with IT outages.
Article
Scheduling for the People (Not for Computers)
Wed, 03/15/2017
If you understand the capabilities of different job schedulers, you’ll know the extent to which your company would benefit from a more advanced enterprise job scheduler.
Article
The IT Job Scheduling Pyramid: Building Blocks of Job Scheduling
Wed, 03/15/2017
Automate Schedule helps automate job scheduling at all levels of complexity. To prioritize scheduling tasks, visualize an inverted pyramid.
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.
Guide
DevOps Development: Keeping the Lights On
Overview: The DevOps methodology embodies two core philosophies: decreasing the lead time of software deployment and the automation of delivery and testing. DevOps emerged as a practical response to the agile development movement, in contrast with traditional, phase-based or “waterfall” development, which is inefficient and labor-intensive. Traditional methods should be phased out, and companies...
Article
Workload Automation: A Key Tool in a Fast Paced Tech Landscape
By Dan Twing on Tue, 03/14/2017
Workload automation is evolving to allow IT to move faster and integrate new technologies. What innovations would you like to see?
Article
Why Everyone Has a Crush on Linux—even IBM
Tue, 03/14/2017
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.
Article
Orchestrating a Symphony of Application Automation
By Steve Brasen on Tue, 03/14/2017
An enterprise job scheduler is key to orchestrating disparate applications and complex business processes.
Guide
Using the Cloud for Mission-Critical Systems
In order to make cloud computing highly available and easy to use, there has to be an infrastructure in the background, like enterprise scheduling software.
Guide
Beyond Cron, Part II: Practical Task Scheduling Deployment
One of the best things about the UNIX environment (aside from being stable and efficient) is the vast array of software tools available to help you do your job. Traditionally, a UNIX tool does only one thing, but does that one thing very well. For example, grep is very easy to use and can search vast amounts of data quickly. The find tool can find a particular file or files based on all kinds of...
Article
Secret Capabilities of Robot Schedule Revealed
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 01/31/2017
We recently surveyed our Robot Schedule technical support group for “ah ha!” moments that they’ve helped customers realize over the past few years. These tips from our tech gurus have helped customers automate jobs that needed to check a data area before running, track non-Robot jobs for reporting purposes, and check the status of a file before running a job.
Article
What Makes the Good Morning Report So Good?
By Chuck Losinski on Mon, 01/30/2017
There is nothing like waking up to find the latest news delivered right to your doorstep, waiting for you on the printer, or sent to you electronically. For years, our customers have started their days reading the Good Morning report from Robot Schedule.
Article
iForms – Document Assembly Code Examples
Tue, 01/24/2017
We've compiled our top examples of document assembly code examples. Take a look.
Article
Using NFS with Webdocs – iSeries
Tue, 01/24/2017
Webdocs – iSeries references the documents it stores by an IFS (Integrated File System) path. There is, however, no requirement that the IFS path refer to a file system on local disk. In fact, for many Webdocs iSeries implementations, it is advantageous to store some or all of the documents from Webdocs on remote file systems that are shared using NFS (Network File System) and mounted into the IFS...
Article
Customer Spotlight: Heartland Financial USA, Inc.
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 01/17/2017
The operations team was excited to share how Robot job scheduling and monitoring software has helped them manage their processing needs across platforms from their IBM i.