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Panel Discussion: Your IBM i Security Action Plan

When your to-do list is a mile long, security might not bubble to the top—unless and until something catastrophic happens.

But dealing with a cybersecurity catastrophe is far more time-consuming (and...

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Where Does CPU Go When It’s Missing?

By Kurt Thomas on January 16, 2019

Have you ever noticed that the CPU used by individual jobs does not add up to 100 percent? As it turns out, your jobs and subsystems are only part of the story. For the stunning conclusion, we return you to the Licensed Internal Code (LIC).

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Hinder Jobs to Make Life More Productive for Users

By Kurt Thomas on January 16, 2019

Control the run priority of a job based on its job CPU usage, so your IBM i has the right jobs consuming the right resources. Learn how here.

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Getting to Grips with QZDASOINIT Jobs

By Kurt Thomas on May 31, 2018

QZDASOINIT job issues can cause high CPU usage and hurt IBM i (iSeries, AS/400) performance. Learn how using Robot Monitor can help you proactively avoid resource issues.

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Stop Feeding IBM i Performance Hogs

Runaway jobs and processes like the many-headed QZDASOINIT beast are infamous for gobbling up resources. Watch this webinar and learn how to round up runaway database server jobs and more to protect system performance.

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SQL-Based Monitoring with Robot Monitor

Part of what makes Robot Monitor so powerful is the ability to perform custom monitoring across system and application values via user-defined SQL statements. Get the real-time visibility and historical data you need to keep performance issues under control.

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The S.M.A.R.T. Way to Align IT and Business Strategy

It’s one thing for an IT team to develop a strategy and quite another to justify the investment by proving that strategy is well-executed and working as intended. Automated monitoring is the answer.

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Insight On Demand: One-Click IBM i Performance Investigations

By Kurt Thomas on October 10, 2016

In a manual monitoring environment, for every issue that arises, there is often a multiple-step investigation process to accompany it.

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The Commercial Power of SQL-Based Monitoring

By Kurt Thomas on September 15, 2016

The SQL-based monitoring feature in Robot Monitor means organizations can now apply the valuable insights, analysis, and real-time notifications that they use for system information to information from broader business applications.

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Big Data? BIG DEAL!

By Kurt Thomas on August 30, 2016

With the dawn of the big data era upon us, what can IBM i systems administrators expect in terms of the demands that will be placed upon them and what kind of resources will be required to cope? Find out what the managed services industry can teach us today about what the future holds for us tomorrow.

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Astronauts Rely on Checklists (and So Should You)

By Kurt Thomas on August 30, 2016

What do astronauts and IBM i admins have in common? Checklists! These seemingly simple yet effective devices serve as our external memories and deliver process consistency, but they’re not without limitations.

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Application and Resource Issues: No More Hunting & Fishing on IBM i

By Kurt Thomas on August 30, 2016

No IBM i administrator has time to lie in wait for system issues to creep from their hiding places and present themselves as a target before users are impacted. There’s a better solution for capturing application and QTEMP problems early.

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Disks Busy vs. ASP Busy in Robot Monitor

By Kurt Thomas on August 25, 2016

Did you know that the Disks Busy monitor reports the average percentage across all your ASPs, not just System ASP? You could be teetering near an I/O overload and not know it! If you have multiple ASPs, use the ASP Busy monitor instead. Here’s why.

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High Availability Fail Tales (and How to Avoid Them)

By Kurt Thomas on August 25, 2016

Chasing a high availability state is a common goal for IBM i administrators and one that can be thwarted by a single issue left unattended. By sharing some of the most frequent tales of what went wrong from real-world environments, you’ll be able to avoid these same scenarios.

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File Transfer Protocol: The Good, The Bad, and The Beautiful

By Kurt Thomas on August 24, 2016

FTP: For many, it is characterised as the beauty and the beast, the boon and the bane of networking on IBM i. You can’t live without it, but sometimes you sure wish you could!

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Reply Trace Is Like Analyze Amped Up

By Kurt Thomas on August 24, 2016

As a seasoned QMessage Monitor user, you know it is best practice to use the Analyze function after changing or adding autoreplies.

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Monitoring the Demands of Fast Disk

By Kurt Thomas on August 24, 2016

The IT industry is decisively moving away from traditional hard disk drives (“platters”) in favor of Flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs). It’s a welcome change; it makes much more sense to circulate only electrons instead of disks of metal with electrons on them.

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Small but MIGHTY: Controlling the *CLS Object Type

By Kurt Thomas on August 24, 2016

While the instinct for administrators and IT managers is to always hunt down a culprit – a rogue job, an inactive journal receiver, or something else – sometimes the very building blocks of a common process, or rather the specifics that define processes, can be where the trouble at hand resides.

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What's More Valuable than Disk?

Disk space is amongst the most precious of all IBM i resources. Inherently expensive and often susceptible to rapid consumption when problems arise, disk dramas, and how to avoid them, are always top of mind for managers of demanding systems environments.

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The Road to Proactive is Paved with Visibility

What you don’t know (or notice) can hurt your system. That’s the reality for administrators struggling with a reactive approach to systems management.

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Resolve a Potential Challenge Swap with an Object Count Monitor for QMM Archive Files

By Kurt Thomas on August 16, 2016

A proactive approach to system monitoring offers a vast number of individual and collective benefits, but there still can be tasks that, despite your best efforts in making the proactive choice, ultimately swap one problem for another.

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