Guide
How Fortra Supports the MAS TRM Notice and Guidelines
Download this guide to learn how Fortra's solutions can help your organization comply with the MAS TRM notice and guidelines.
Guide
How to Get Started with IT Modernization
Modernization is more than simply switching from a green screen to a GUI. To have a truly modern IBM i data center, you must consider all areas of IT from your software and applications to your hardware and devices to the processes that support the whole operation. This guides helps you modernize your IBM i from the ground up.
Article
What's New in Automate
Mon, 10/16/2023
That latest version of Automate has just been released. Find out more about what's new!
Article
The Importance of VIOS
Thu, 08/31/2023
VIOS is considered a standard in organizations running IBM i, AIX, and Linux workloads. But don’t put your business at risk by letting it run unchecked. Learn five areas you must be monitoring.
Article
How to Automate Google Chrome: Web Browser Automation
By EJ Stanley on Wed, 05/17/2023
Follow along with our tutorial to create your own web browser automation actions from Google Chrome using robotic process automation (RPA) from Automate.
Guide
The RPA Buyer's Guide
The RPA Buyer's Guide
Everyone has repetitive, manual tasks that take up their precious time. They’re tedious to get through and eat up the time you could be spending on more important work. With a robotic process automation (RPA) solution, you can reclaim your time by streamlining your processes.
Simply put, RPA is transforming the way businesses operate. RPA solutions are designed to boost...
Article
Getting to Grips with QZDASOINIT Jobs
By Kurt Thomas on Fri, 09/30/2022
QZDASOINIT job issues can cause high CPU usage and hurt IBM i (iSeries, AS/400) performance. Learn how using Robot Monitor can help you proactively avoid resource issues.
Article
The Difference Between OCR and IDP
Thu, 06/23/2022
Compare optical character recognition (OCR) and intelligent document processing (IDP) to learn when to use each to make structured and unstructured data more usable.
Guide
Four Ways to RPA: An Exploration of the Different Types of Process Automation
The Evolution of RPA
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has taken the world by storm in recent years because of its ability to automate mundane tasks that humans are still performing manually. However, automation as a software solution has been around long before the term RPA was widely used. Progressing from script-based automation tools to business process automation to specialized tools for...
Article
Space Oddities—What’s in Your IFS?
By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 01/19/2022
Read this article to learn what might be taking up valuable disk space in the IFS and what you can do to control it.
Article
How Automate Complements Other RPA Solutions
By Paul Necklen on Tue, 12/07/2021
If you’re already seeing success with RPA and want to expand its capabilities and use, see how Automate RPA can add ease-of-use, scalability, and more to fill in any gaps your RPA solution may have.
Article
How Legacy Processing in IT Leads to Downtime on IBM i
By Tom Huntington on Mon, 10/25/2021
Why haven’t IT processes kept pace with business changes? Why are you still suffering from downtime as the result of human error? Read this article to see how legacy processing methods are still leading to downtime today—and what you can do to stop it.
Article
Where Does CPU Go When It’s Missing?
By Kurt Thomas on Thu, 10/07/2021
Have you ever noticed that the CPU used by individual jobs does not add up to 100 percent? As it turns out, your jobs and subsystems are only part of the story. For the stunning conclusion, we return you to the Licensed Internal Code (LIC).
Guide
Time to Replace Legacy AS/400 Schedulers?
This guide explores the limitations of legacy AS400 schedulers, identifies the signs that it’s time for a change, and points to the benefits of automated operations using modern workload automation software built for IBM i.
Article
Three Essential Steps to Successful Performance Management
Tue, 08/24/2021
Performance management is often made to look cumbersome and complex, but we’ve distilled the process down to three essential steps.
Article
Virtual Tape Considerations for IBM i
By Tom Huntington on Mon, 06/28/2021
This article examines some of the most popular IBM VTL (virtual tap library) solutions for IBM i and other platforms. You'll also learn what to consider to determine if VTL is right for you.
Article
Adding Flexibility to IBM i Monitoring Without Compromising Availability
By Kurt Thomas on Tue, 06/01/2021
To cope with system issues, you want easy yet comprehensive solutions that handle your performance, messaging, and remote management needs, but what you really need are integrated solutions for universal control. See where Robot Monitor fits in.
Article
Application and Resource Issues: No More Hunting & Fishing on IBM i
By Kurt Thomas on Tue, 06/01/2021
Use a real-time monitoring tool with thresholds and drill-down capabilities to speed root cause analysis and problem determination for application and resource performance issues on IBM i.
Article
Job Status and Other Stories About Application Monitoring
By Kurt Thomas on Tue, 06/01/2021
Knowing a job’s CPU usage, disk I/O, temporary storage, and so on is fine, but what you really want to know is how the job is doing. And we can see a job's status on IBM i. Here's how.