Resources

On-Demand Webinar

RDi and the Sleeping Giants

By Susan Gantner

How does Rational Developer for i (RDi) empower RPG coders? Watch this webinar with Jim Buck, Susan Gantner, and Charlie Guarino to find out!

Article

If It Has Moving Parts, Someday It's Going to Fail.

Sat, 11/03/2018

Check out IBM's new READ INTENSIVE SSDs. This is a note to highlight some of the pros and cons - and dig a little deeper into one of the cons - of IBM's recently announced new class of solid state disk drives, "read intensive" (RI) SSDs. The new RI-SSD comes in one flavor, a 1.86 TB drive. The new concept to wrap your head around is that the drive will "wear out" if you write too much over the...

Guide

How to Right-Size Your Power10 Capacity and Configuration

On-Demand Webinar

POWER9 Power Hour

By Joe Armstrong

Tune in to hear IBM and Fortra share POWER9 tech specs and trends in 60 minutes.

Datasheet

Robot Suite of Products

With the right IT operations management and infrastructure monitoring tools from Robot in place, your IT team can give your business the competitive edge by streamlining processes, improving scalability, and staying a step ahead of performance issues. Schedule a demo today.

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Robot Save

Robot Save provides automated backup, recovery, and encryption for IBM i. Schedule a demo today.

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Robot Space

Bring Automation and Analysis to Your IBM i Disk Space Administration. Schedule a demo of Robot Space today.

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Robot Console

Robot Console is a fully automated, customizable tool that sends you only the IBM i messages you need to see. This makes your monitoring more effective—you won’t miss crucial information—and more efficient.

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Robot Schedule

Discover Error-Free Scheduling with the Most Advanced IBM i Job Scheduler. Schedule a demo of Robot Schedule today.

On-Demand Webinar

Systems Management Tips Using IBM i Services with Dawn May

By Dawn May

Don't miss this recorded webinar where Dawn May discusses a better and faster interface for many IBM i systems management tasks.

Blog

How to Solve the Top 5 IBM i Batch Processing Challenges

By Chuck Losinski on Mon, 08/27/2018

Learn how Robot Schedule job scheduling software can revolutionize IBM i batch process management for your organization.

Blog

IBM's Steve Will Talks AS/400, Cognitive Systems, and Everything in Between

By Tom Huntington on Thu, 08/23/2018

For busy IT pros who love their IBM i (or AS/400), we've summarized Steve Will's hugely popular, 60-minute webinar in a 6-minute blog post. Enjoy!

On-Demand Webinar

IBM i Marketplace Check-In with IBM Champions

By Pete Massiello

Halfway through 2018—how are you doing on your IT initiatives? Watch this to learn how your peers on the platform are doing and get expert tips on how to move important IBM i projects forward at your own organization.

Article

How to Download an ODBC Driver

Wed, 07/25/2018

Performance Navigator® requires an ODBC connection to connect to your IBM i system, but it does not come with your PC’s operating system. IBM has a downloadable they’ve titled Access Client Solutions, which we recommend our customers use to get that ODBC connection.

On-Demand Webinar

AS/400 to IBM i: And We’re Just Getting Started

By Steve Will

Celebrate 30 years of innovation on IBM i with IBM’s Steve Will and Alison Butterill. Watch now!

Article

FAQs about Performance Navigator

Thu, 07/12/2018

Will this product hurt the performance of my IBM i®? You will not even notice that the product is working. The data gathering software is already part of the OS. I currently have a subscription to IBM's PM for Power service. How is Performance Navigator compared to PM? Glad you asked... Performance Navigator uses exactly the same input as PM for Power, Collection Services. Performance Navigator...