Welcome to Release Day 2024.1 

These pages are designed to give you highlights of the innovative new features now available within the latest versions of the solutions you rely on. The products you use on a daily basis fall within suites that solve similar business requirements. These suites fall into three major portfolios, Infrastructure Protection & Data Security, Intelligence & Automation, and IBM i & Additional products. This new structure has been created to build solutions that meet specific organizational needs, and ultimately create the best experience for our customers.

You'll notice a Fortra Release Rocket beside some release announcements, denoting a major release. Note that you'll still see timely bug fixes and minor releases throughout the year to provide you with the best usability and experience for your Fortra products. 

Click through the left hand navigation below to see what's new!

 

 

The Latest from Robot

The Robot product line is designed and developed with operators in mind. Our modern interfaces and enterprise-class functionality make it possible for even novice IBM i teams to manage the system by exception, freeing up time to focus on IT initiatives that add value and impact the bottom line. 

Recent product releases include:

  • Performance Navigator 19.05 Fortra Release Rocket
    • Created a graph of Disk GB for All ASPs. 
    • Added a Current Day graph for SQL CPU microseconds, with lines for scaled, unscaled, and the ratio between them. 
    • Various improvements have been made to the AIX monthly summary, including the use of a new rPerf Average Day graph. 
    • PERFNAVIFS can now collect information on files smaller than 1MB. Users should note that this will increase the size of the file MPGIFS, since more records will be created each time the data is collected. 
    • Data for segments transmitted and received is now kept historically. 
    • Created six graphs for Current Day CPU% and Top Current Users for QRWTSRVR. 
    • Removed "go back" buttons from the top of several Power Analytics scripts as they are no longer relevant. Users can still use the back buttons in their browser. 
    • Added a parameter for Profile Group on the CRTUSRPRF command when we create MPGSCHRUN during install. 
    • Added support in What-If for odd numbers of mirrored NMVe drives. 
    • Added -V Volume Group when collecting nmon data for mpgdata2 file. 
    • Improved the speed of generating the list of libraries for Power Analytics. 
    • TR level is now displayed in System Information. Host code must be on 19.05 as well. 
    • Created an rPerf Average Day graph for AIX systems. 
    • Added additional columns to the PEP2 analysis portion of What-If. 
    • The initial phase of refreshing the UI has begun in this release, amending the default colour of backgrounds to White. Further changes will be made to match Fortra guidelines in later releases. 
    • Sign-on box now informs the user if Caps Lock is turned on. 
    • Improved the calculated Disk Response Time graph in What if and Graphs > Disk > Disk Response Time (Calculated) 
    • A few fields in the AIX Healthcheck have been corrected. 
    • The Power Analytics Report has been improved to take ASP number into account when calculating percentages. 
    • The link on the "Download Latest" button now points to the correct URL. 
    • Prior Day Performance summary now uses yesterday's data to determine the number of distinct ASPs. 
  • Robot Autotune 9.02 
    • Enhanced ATM1255 message to include the sum of all minimums. 
    • Added ATM1265 message to show the minimum pool size for each active pool. 
    • Support added for IBM i 7.5. 
    • AT210 panel now properly retains data for Username and Subsystem to exclude. 
    • Fixed issue with MCH1210 error in AT200S during startup. 
    • Fixed update process to retain setup and control values. 
  • Robot Alert 6.03 
    • OAUTH protocol is now supported to read emails. 
    • Fixed issue with Robot Console replies not being received by Robot Alert. 
    • Passwords are now encrypted values and will not be displayed. 
    • Fixed issue with SMTP/POP3 RBA622 program not processing HTML replies in base64 correctly. 
  • Robot Reports 7.74 
    • Improved performance of the product’s library size alert mechanisms when accessing the Reports Main Menu options. 
    • Added support to improve the uptime of the monitor job, REPQWATCH. 
    • Fixed issue with the processing of IPDS or AFPDS spooled files resulting in an MCH1001 error on REPQWATCH2 job. 
    • Fixed issue with REPQWATCH2 job ending with MCH1210 error while processing spooled file. 

 

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