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How to Turn End-of-Month into Just Another Day
Wish you could make month-end just like any other day in the data center? Heartland Financial did.
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IBM i Meets Mobile Technology
According to the 2015 IBM i Marketplace Survey, mobile access to IBM i data ranks among the top five IT concerns for the near future. Robot is here to make your mobile initiative easier.
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How to Tie IBM i to the Rest of Your Network
By Mel Beckman
Learn the top technologies to get IBM i off the bench and into your network, including SSH, PASE, and Bash shell scripting.
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Execute Sequel Scripts and Reports Automatically—with Robot Schedule
Learn how to turn your Sequel scripts and reports into an automated job stream.
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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!
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Keep Your IBM i Network Humming with Instrumentation
By Mel Beckman
Well-run data centers monitor their servers and networks for early signs of impending issues, but doing this requires the proper tools.
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Never Worry About a Late Backup Again!
Data security and storage expert Glenn Haley joins us to discuss how VTL helps you.
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Quick and Easy IBM i Disk Space Management
Studies show that the amount of data stored worldwide will grow by 4,300% within 7 years. 80% of that growth is on enterprise servers like your IBM i. If you want to be prepared to manage that kind of big data, watch this webinar!
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Job Scheduling: Basic to Advanced
By Pat Cameron
Fortra offers two automation platforms to handle the complex scheduling needs of modern enterprises: AutoMate and Skybot. Join this live webinar to learn about using these solutions to orchestrate processes from the server down to the user’s desktop.
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The New Automation Strategy: A Unified Approach to Job Scheduling and Process Automation
By Pat Cameron
These days IT departments are responsible for automating processes and applications across every department in the organization. Find out how to leverage automation solutions from Fortra to easily consolidate your automation.
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Practical Task Scheduling Deployment
By Pat Cameron
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...
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The True Cost of Workload Automation
By Pat Cameron
In this video you'll learn about the ROI of workload automation and how to make sure you’re paying the right price for your IT needs.
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Efficient IT Management: Automating the Enterprise from Server to Desktop
By Pat Cameron
Discover the value of a unified approach to enterprise process automation.
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Containing the Costs of Workload Automation
By Pat Cameron
Containing the costs of data center automation is key. We'll show you how.
Blog
IT Risk Mitigation
By Per Bauer on Thu, 09/01/2016
It's a brave new world for IT. And it often seems impossible to predict future demand and guard against performance risks. You have mountains of data, scalable cloud infrastructures, and a complex web of IT environments. It's complicated, to say the least. And it's matched by skyrocketing consumer demand for and reliance on online services. Bottom line: outages are more dangerous to a company’s...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Is Your Boss an Automation Skeptic?
By Tom Huntington on Mon, 08/29/2016
There is little doubt among IT experts as to the potential benefits of implementing automation tools at deeper levels within the data center environment. Yet adoption rates have not always mirrored this optimism. Especially among the small business crowd, automation is still seen as something that is "nice to have" as opposed to mission-critical.
