March 2009 Q&A

Is there a way to find out when a Robot/SCHEDULE batch job command entry was last updated? Our auditors are interested in this information to ensure a batch job that changes object authorities hasn’t changed since the last time it was audited.
If you have Robot/SCHEDULE auditing turned on, it automatically tracks changes to job setup and command entry.

If you are using Robot/SCHEDULE Explorer, select System Setup from the Tree view and Auditing from the List view. Right-click to display the Auditing menu and select Properties. The Auditing Properties dialog box indicates if auditing is active and shows the number of days of auditing information you are keeping.

I monitor writers that end unexpectedly and restart them using Robot/CONSOLE. I would like the OPAL-generated pager message to identify which writer ended. How do I make the text message display the actual writer ID?
When you use the Robot/CONSOLE OPAL operation PAGE, you are actually creating a Robot/ALERT RBASNDMSG command. If you enter the word “text” (without the quotation marks) in the Message Text field, the actual message text is sent to your pager device.

Another option is to write your own message using the USRTEXT variable in OPAL. Look in the Robot/CONSOLE OPAL Reference Guide to see how that works.

I am writing a shutdown script and would like to know if there is a program that can be called in batch to end Robot/REPORTS gracefully.
You can actually end all of the Robot products and the subsystem gracefully by using the RSLSHUTDWN command.