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Top Three Reasons Mobile Data Access Will Be Your Savior
Tue, 11/22/2022
In today’s business world, you need data access beyond the green screen and GUI. Read this article to learn how mobile data access in a friendly browser interface will save you.
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The Difference Between OCR and IDP
Thu, 06/23/2022
Compare optical character recognition (OCR) and intelligent document processing (IDP) to learn when to use each to make structured and unstructured data more usable.
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Space Oddities—What’s in Your IFS?
By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 01/19/2022
Read this article to learn what might be taking up valuable disk space in the IFS and what you can do to control it.
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5 Things to Try During Your Sequel Data Access Trial
By Stacy Jensen on Mon, 12/13/2021
Ready to start your Sequel Data Access business intelligence (BI) software trial? Here are five things you need to try.
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5 Reasons IT Teams Purchase Sequel Data Access
Thu, 12/09/2021
IT teams are under a lot of pressure to keep up in today's business world. Sequel can help relieve the pressure. Learn how.
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5 Time-Saving Tips for Smart Data Access on IBM i
By Stacy Jensen on Wed, 11/17/2021
Is there too much on your IT department’s plate? Get five tips for saving time today with smart data access on IBM i.
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13 FAQs on Switching from Query/400 to Sequel
By Heath Kath on Wed, 10/20/2021
Find out why you should choose Sequel Data Access for your IBM i queries—and leave Query/400 behind.
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FAQ: How Does Sequel Data Access Go Beyond SQL?
Mon, 08/10/2020
Got questions about moving beyond SQL to Sequel Data Access? Get answers, and get the business intelligence your organization needs from your IBM i data.
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Three Advanced Scripting Tips That Help Solve Reporting Challenges
By Heath Kath on Fri, 05/08/2020
See how Sequel scripts make it easy to link together multi-step processes rather than manually running a series of steps to accomplish a complex task.
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Why Relying on Scripted Operations Can Be a Problem for Your Business
By Steve Brasen on Tue, 03/31/2020
Scripting provides a powerful platform to automate simple tasks, but overusing custom scripts is hazardous for your business.
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IBM on IASP for PowerHA Implementations
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 03/03/2020
You’ve heard about IASP technology many times over the years, but you’ve been ignoring it, haven’t you? Steve Finnes confirms that it’s past time we “get to know it, understand it, and not be afraid of it.”
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Three Tactics to Optimize Your IBM i Disk Space
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 06/18/2019
Don’t wait for a critical iSeries storage issue to catch you off-guard. Instead, follow these top three tips for using Robot Space to manage your disk space automatically.
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Managing Your IBM i Audit Data
By Robin Tatam on Wed, 08/01/2018
Let’s face it; system administration remains a largely thankless task. From scheduling jobs to balancing workloads to answering messages in QSYSOPR, administrators and operators work diligently behind the scenes to ensure that IBM i servers are available to run mission-critical applications.
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How to Get Your BI Project Approved
Fri, 09/22/2017
Your organization needs business intelligence. But how will you sell upper management on your BI project?
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What Really Matters in IBM i Monitoring?
By Paul Ratchford on Thu, 09/14/2017
Guard against degraded system performance, data loss, and downtime. Make sure you’re monitoring these 15 metrics on the IBM i operating system.
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Generate and Distribute Audit Reports Automatically
By Robin Tatam on Mon, 04/03/2017
Despite the server’s incredible security infrastructure, auditing remains primarily a thankless, manual chore. And, let’s face it, any task that’s thankless and manual probably won’t get done.
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Use Conditional Logic in Sequel Data Access to Convert Data into Meaningful Information
By Mike Stegeman on Thu, 03/30/2017
Let’s face it, the amount of data that we have is only continuing to grow, which will become harder to manage and understand. Per IDC Research, 90 percent of data in the world today was created in the last two years, and in 2016, we entered the zettabyte era . A huge challenge for everyone is finding the best way to convert all their data into meaningful information. But that can be tricky. If you...
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How To Maintain Your Data Integrity
By Robin Tatam on Tue, 03/21/2017
File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) helps ensure that your critical and sensitive data is viewed and changed only by authorized personnel through approved channels. Candidates for FIM include application files containing sensitive data, such as personnel or financial data, and server configuration files.
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How-To: Increase Your Command of Esend with Sequel
Wed, 02/22/2017
Get tips and tricks for maximizing Esend with Sequel Data Access.