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Which IBM i Data Access Tool is Right for You?

Data access software is essential today to both technical users—like your IT team—and business users—like everyone else. Query/400 has long been the go-to for IBM i data access. It’s been around for over 30 years, but the tool hasn’t advanced with changes in technology. That’s where modern data access tools like Sequel have the advantage. But how do you really know which data access tool is right...

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Download the "State of IBM i Security Study"

Real-World Insight into IBM i Security The 2024 State of IBM i Security Study provides exclusive insight into the tools and strategies organizations are using to secure IBM i—and where systems are often left vulnerable. This year's study analyzes settings on 148 IBM i server partitions, providing real-world information about how organizations around the world secure this powerful OS. You'll learn...

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Ensuring IT Efficiencies Through Enterprise Process Automation

To effectively and rapidly enable and manage complex business processes, organizations must adopt a unified solution that directly integrates process automation with job scheduling.

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6 Ways to Calculate Returns from your Network Monitoring Investment

How do you calculate the return on investment (ROI) of a network monitoring software? Learn the problems a network monitoring solution can solve and how to easily calculate its ROI.

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A Clean Slate for Enterprise Scheduling

Enterprise scheduling tools have many advantages over the older technology of client-server scheduling tools.

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Is Cron Limiting Your Automation Strategy?

Skybot Scheduler provides many advantages, including event-driven scheudling and cross-platform capabilities, over UNIX cron job scheduling.

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Workload Automation in the Modern Enterprise

Because there is still a need for recurring application processes to perform activities, there is an increased need for critical back-end computing via workload automation software.

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Who's Minding the Store? When Central Monitoring and Automatic Notification are Essential

Central monitoring and automatic notification are the keys to successful workload automation.

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Enterprise Scheduling ROI

Consolidating scheduling across multiple applications into an enterprise job scheduler increases productivity and helps the bottom line.

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How to Automate Enterprise Scheduling

Following a specific plan for automating your enterprise schedule ensures greater success for your implementation.

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Beyond Cron: How to Know When You've Outgrown Cron Scheduling

Cron is a useful tool, but for today’s large, interconnected enterprises it has its limitations. Modern enterprise job scheduling tools offer superior functionality, ease of use, and a more modern, graphical user interface.

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Making the Data Integration Process More Efficient

It is important to understand the challenges that many companies face with data integration so that the appropriate tool can be used to address them.

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Calculating the True Cost of Bad Data

Bad data is common throughout many organizations—and the costs can be far-reaching. This white paper explores the common causes of inaccurate and incomplete business data, as well as how businesses can identify and mitigate these problems.

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Why You Need an Enterprise Scheduler

The best way to resolve the issue of multiple schedulers is with an enterprise scheduler that can build cross-platform job streams to handle the different applications.

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DevOps Development: Keeping the Lights On

Overview : The DevOps methodology embodies two core philosophies: decreasing the lead time of software deployment and the automation of delivery and testing. DevOps emerged as a practical response to the agile development movement, in contrast with traditional, phase-based or “waterfall” development, which is inefficient and labor-intensive. Traditional methods should be phased out, and companies...

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Essentials for Privileged Access Management

Learn how you can effectively and efficiently control privileged UNIX and Linux accounts from accessing data or executing any application by using centralized access management.

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Controlling SSH for Security and Compliance

SSH is nearly ubiquitous in today’s enterprises, and is the predominant tool for managing unix and linux servers, and the applications and data that they host. Poor practices around the deployment and management of the SSH infrastructure could easily leave your enterprise vulnerable to a breach. Are you in control? SSH, Secure Shell protocol, is now nineteen years old and broadly deployed across...

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Our Privileged Access Management Solution - Your Sudo Replacement

Learn how to reduce the risk of insider fraud, streamline regulatory compliance, and greatly reduce administration efforts with an effective privileged access management solution.

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Powertech Password Self Help for IBM i: Self-Service Password Reset

Resetting disabled passwords is an inevitable activity. Read this guide to find out you can reduce password management costs and increase efficiency with an easy-to-use tool that allows IBM i users to reset their own passwords.

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Using the Cloud for Mission-Critical Systems

In order to make cloud computing highly available and easy to use, there has to be an infrastructure in the background, like enterprise scheduling software.