It's A Wrap

After three cities—Toronto, Cincinnati, and Charleston—in three days, meeting more than 50 customers and two business partners, one late plane departure, one spilled coke in the lap, a survival novel on my Kindle (Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World), and a spaghetti/chili dog in Cincinnati, I’m back in Minneapolis ready to summarize my latest Robot/SCHEDULE Workshop Tour.

First of all, thanks to all the customers and business partners I met with—it was a great week.

Along the way, I took some straw polls and found that more than 75 percent of customers are using V5R4, yet only two or three are using the Robot/SCHEDULE 10 Java Interface. I hope I enlightened many about the capabilities of the new interface. (I guess IBM also has a lot of work to do to move customers to 6.1 or higher.)

As part of the Robot/SCHEDULE and automated job scheduling workshops, I talked about the power of OPerator Assistance Language (OPAL); the Job Schedule Blueprint; Host Mode; Reserved Command Variables; special scheduling commands like RBTSNDDTA, RBTBCHUPD, RBTSTRLRN, RBTSWTCAL, and RBTSWTDO; the Schedule Activity Monitor (SAM); data filters; job monitors; Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise; and more. And, of course I fielded some great questions about how to schedule using reactive jobs, group jobs, and exception scheduling.

It was great opportunity. Next month, look for more workshops in the New York and Connecticut areas.