Resources

On-Demand Webinar

IBM i Work Management 101

By Tom Huntington

Watch this recorded webinar to get a better understanding of why IBM i jobs end up where they do and what you can do to control where they go to optimize system resources.

Article

Capacity Planning and the Culture of Proof

By Timothy Prickett Morgan on Fri, 05/31/2019

Capacity planning is one of the most important things that a company will do, and yet there are still many companies that do it on the back of the envelope. Read this article and learn how to do it right.

Article

Take Your Work to Warp Drive!

By Chuck Losinski on Thu, 05/16/2019

If your mission is work management, IBM i is the best starship in the fleet. Routing certain types of work into subsystems and memory pools, separating dissimilar work, and giving jobs the appropriate CPU time—this is work management the Windows world can only dream about.

On-Demand Webinar

Monitoring Beyond IBM i Message Queues

By Chuck Losinski

Learn how to chuck the manual checklist and teach critical IBM i messages to find you or fix themselves instead. Watch now to see how!

Article

Two-Way Message Response with Robot

By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 05/01/2019

You have the afternoon off—but not the responsibility of monitoring your system for issues. This includes responding to application and system messages as they occur on your production IBM i jobs. You don’t want to carry your laptop around just in case you need to VPN back to answer a message that is waiting on your month-end process. What option do you have?

Datasheet

Performance Navigator

Historical performance monitoring and modeling across your IT environment In an increasingly virtualized world, it’s becoming more and more difficult to understand performance across your IT enterprise. Performance Navigator performance analysis software allows you to see what’s truly occurring on your mission critical systems. With current day and historical performance data, you know exactly...

Article

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.

Guide

Will My QZDASOINIT Job Ever End?

On-Demand Webinar

IBM i Business Resiliency 101

By Debbie Saugen

Four IBM i experts teach you how to identify and prevent business disruption and maintain business resilience. Watch now!

On-Demand Webinar

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!

On-Demand Webinar

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.

Guide

How to Evaluate IBM i Monitoring Software

On-Demand Webinar

The Virtualization Blind Spot

By Chuck Losinski

75 percent of IBM i shops run multiple partitions per server. But what aren't they seeing? Watch now and learn how to monitor virtualized IBM i environments with Robot Monitor.

Article

The Many Ways Robot Supports SNMP

By Chuck Losinski on Fri, 02/23/2018

Many devices send status updates using SNMP or simple network management protocol. Make sure you’re getting the message. Read on to see how Robot supports SNMP.

Article

Message Received?

By Chuck Losinski on Fri, 02/23/2018

When was the last time you reviewed your Robot Console message automation? If you’re out of practice, let’s take a look at what you can do to maximize your message automation and reports.

Datasheet

Robot Monitor

Robot Monitor allows you to monitor and investigate issues on your IBM i and AIX operating systems, so you can resolve issues before they escalate and plan for future needs by tracking and analyzing past performance trends.