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Mobile Management for Your Job Schedule
By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 02/13/2019
Your job schedule has never looked so good! Learn about four must-have features exclusive to the web interface for Robot Schedule.
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Top 5 Capacity Planning Mistakes on IBM i
By Tom Huntington on Tue, 02/12/2019
When it comes to capacity planning for IBM i, skip the shortcuts. This article shares expert recommendations on how to avoid the most common capacity planning mistakes.
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10 Recovery Tips with BRMS for IBM i
Watch this recorded webinar to learn insider tricks for successful recoveries using Backup, Recovery and Media Services for i (BRMS).
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How to Access Meaningful Information with Data Visualization
It's not news that everyone needs accurate business data these days—and they needed it 5 minutes ago. Real-time, actionable information needs to be simple to access and shouldn't require IT to translate it into something a business user will understand. In this webinar you'll see: How Sequel makes your KPIs accessible in powerful dashboards How many ways users can analyze their data in client...
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Virtualization Considerations for POWER9 Hardware Changes
Watch this webinar and learn how to monitor and replicate your virtualized IBM i environment using Robot Monitor and Robot HA.
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IBM i Business Resiliency 101
Four IBM i experts teach you how to identify and prevent business disruption and maintain business resilience. Watch now!
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Intro to Capacity Planning for IBM i
By Doug Mewmaw
Ready to skip the capacity guessing game and size your Power Systems servers with confidence? Watch this recorded webinar!
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Your Power Half Hour—From Query to BI with Sequel
Your IT team is asked to provide IBM i data to people from all over the organization. Upper management wants big picture stats to see how your organization is doing with key performance indicators. Operational users need detailed information—sometimes even down to the minute—to improve operations. Sales needs customer information to provide better service and metrics to make data-driven decisions...
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RDi and the Sleeping Giants
How does Rational Developer for i (RDi) empower RPG coders? Watch this webinar with Jim Buck, Susan Gantner, and Charlie Guarino to find out!
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If It Has Moving Parts, Someday It's Going to Fail.
Sat, 11/03/2018
Check out IBM's new READ INTENSIVE SSDs. This is a note to highlight some of the pros and cons - and dig a little deeper into one of the cons - of IBM's recently announced new class of solid state disk drives, "read intensive" (RI) SSDs. The new RI-SSD comes in one flavor, a 1.86 TB drive. The new concept to wrap your head around is that the drive will "wear out" if you write too much over the...
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POWER9 Power Hour
Tune in to hear IBM and Fortra share POWER9 tech specs and trends in 60 minutes.
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How to Modernize Your IBM i Queries with Sequel
You don't have to move your data off of IBM i to modernize your queries and give users real-time information in a modern environment. Sequel can help.
Guide
Data Access in a Big Data World: How to Access Big Data so You Can Use It
With organizations collecting more customer, transactional, and relational data than ever before, data volumes are beginning to expand past their system’s processing capacity. But big data doesn’t have to be alarming. Go beyond the hype and conquer your IBM i data.
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Systems Management Tips Using IBM i Services with Dawn May
By Dawn May
Don't miss this recorded webinar where Dawn May discusses a better and faster interface for many IBM i systems management tasks.
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IBM i Marketplace Check-In with IBM Champions
Halfway through 2018—how are you doing on your IT initiatives? Watch this to learn how your peers on the platform are doing and get expert tips on how to move important IBM i projects forward at your own organization.
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Creating Simple Yet Powerful Queries with Sequel
Query-building should be functional and flexible to fit your organization's needs. Sequel helps you build powerful and simple queries for better data access.
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How to Download an ODBC Driver
Wed, 07/25/2018
Performance Navigator® requires an ODBC connection to connect to your IBM i system, but it does not come with your PC’s operating system. IBM has a downloadable they’ve titled Access Client Solutions, which we recommend our customers use to get that ODBC connection.