Could an automation tool like Robot job scheduling software for IBM i help your application development team be more productive? Yes, actually. View this PowerPoint to see how.
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Your Hosts
Chuck Losinski
Director of Automation Technology
HelpSystems
Broadcasting live from Eden Prairie, Minnesota USA
Tom Huntington
Executive Vice President of Technical Solutions
HelpSystems
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• What We Are Seeing in the Marketplace
• 5 Reasons Revealed
• Robot Schedule APIs and Commands
• Live Demo
Plan for Today
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• Small staff
– Supporting multiple platforms
– Programmers doing ops and admin tasks
• “Checking” the system on evenings and weekends
– …or getting a call in the middle of the night
– …or firefighting the next day
• Multiple schedulers that don’t coordinate
– Timer jobs
• Compliance and SLA reporting requirements
– Time spent writing queries and downloading to
spreadsheets
What are we seeing on IBM i?
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Unattended operations on IBM i can be realized.
Is Automation a Big Focus
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#5 — It provides a database of rules and history for easy audits.
5 Reasons Developers Love Robot Schedule
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#4 — It controls processes and the system resources they require.
5 Reasons Developers Love Robot Schedule
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#3 — It passes dynamically calculated parameters into the job.
5 Reasons Developers Love Robot Schedule
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#2 — It executes any script or 5250/Telnet screen automatically as an
independent event.
5 Reasons Developers Love Robot Schedule
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1. Learn & Edit
Robot Schedule
Robot Replay
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#1 — It establishes event-driven job scheduling for your night processing.
5 Reasons Developers Love Robot Schedule
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Business Process Automation with Robot
Batch Automation
Robot Replay
Robot Schedule Enterprise
Robot Schedule
EnterpriseOne + SAP Interfaces
Interactive
…and FTP
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• Trigger a job dependency from IBM i, Windows, Linux, and AIX
• Update the value of a dynamic parameter, even from Windows!
• Run a listing of jobs that will run today
• Purge spooled files
• Merge jobs into Robot from the native scheduler
• Duplicate a spooled file
• Send a message to QSYSOPR from another server
Robot Schedule Commands and APIs
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• File Dependencies
• Dynamic Variables
• 5250 Automation
• Incorporating Linux, Windows, and AIX
• Audit and History Reporting
Live Demo
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HelpSystems Solutions Portfolio
• Enterprise Scheduling and Business Process Automation
– IBM i, AIX, UNIX, Linux, Windows
• Monitoring (IBM i, Linux, AIX, Windows)
• Security and Compliance (IBM i, AIX, Linux)
• BI and Data Warehouse (IBM i)
– Modernize your data access
• Document Life Cycle Management
– Electronic forms, signature, work flow, distribution
• Network Monitoring
• Backup and Recovery (IBM i)
• SLA Issues
What IT Problems Do We Solve?
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Recap
Questions and Answers
• What We Are Seeing in the Marketplace
• 5 Reasons Revealed
• Robot Schedule APIs and Commands
• Live Demo
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Thank you for attending!
Contact Information
Website:
www.helpsystems.com/robot
Telephone:
800-328-1000 sales
+1 952-933-0609 support
Presenters:
chuck.losinski@helpsystems.com
tom.huntington@helpsystems.com
Chuck Losinski
Director of Automation Technology
HelpSystems
Tom Huntington
EVP Technical Solutions
HelpSystems