I am planning an operating system (OS) upgrade. How do I find out what I need to do for Help/Systems products?
Call us before you update your OS to a new level. Some product versions may not be compatible with the upgraded OS. Each product needs to be reviewed to see if it needs updates before you update the OS.

What is the easiest way to set up a Report Set in Robot/REPORTS?
Use Robot/GUIDE. Robot/GUIDE ensures you don’t make typos when defining comparison information and prevents you from missing steps in the setup procedure.

When our System i was put into restricted state, several critical jobs did not run. We have monitor jobs that notify the operator if these jobs are not running, but since Robot/SCHEDULE was not active they didn’t work. How can I make sure that doesn’t happen again?
Robot/SCHEDULE provides two ways of working with jobs that are missed while it is inactive. On the General System Defaults panel there is an option called “Run Autowork at Startup of ROBOT.” When this is set to Y (Yes), Robot/SCHEDULE automatically runs all missed jobs for the current date (since 12:01 a.m.) as soon as it is restarted. If you want more control than running all missed jobs, you can run the Autowork function manually using Option 4 of the Control Menu. If you select the option to display missed jobs, you can control which ones to run and go back to the prior day as well.

I am using Robot/SAVE to back up the IFS. Can I omit QNTC servers from the backup?
Unfortunately, you cannot omit these servers. However, you can use the following command to expedite the process of connecting to the servers for SAV command processing:

ADDENVVAR ENVVAR(QZLC_SERVERLIST) VALUE(’1′) LEVEL(*SYS)

Note: You may want to to check with IBM before implementing this environment variable.

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