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Appdev Team Looking Toward Retirement?Time To Automate!
Aging RPG Programmersin Charge of Your IBM i?
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Chuck LosinskiDirector of Automation Technology
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Your HostsBroadcasting Live from Eden Prairie, Minnesota USA
Richard SchoenDirector of Document Management Technologies
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• What we are seeing in the marketplace• 5 reasons to automate for retiring staff• Robot schedule APIs and commands• Live demo
Agenda
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A Sneak Peek at the 2017 IBM i Marketplace Survey ResultsTop IT Priorities
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What percentage of your core business runs on IBM i?
A Critical Platform Across the Board
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Staff on IBM i
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Is Automation a Big Focus?Unattended Operations On IBM i Can Be Realized.
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Programmers are Embracing Change on IBM i
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• Small staff– Supporting multiple platforms– Programmers doing dev, ops, and admin tasks– Younger staff being mentored, they want GUI!
• “Checking” the system on eveningsand weekends– Or getting a call in the middle of the night– Or firefighting the next day
• Multiple schedulers that don’t coordinate– Timer jobs
• Compliance and SLA reporting requirements– Time spent writing queries and downloading
to spreadsheets
Issues We Are Seeing on IBM i
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• Rebuild test environments• Automate testing• Deploy processing changes without recompiling• Dynamic directory and file names during transfer• Application integration intra- and inter-platform• Automate interactive without coding• Capture SBMJOB command without source code• Deploy dashboard to process owners• Mobile management• Spend time on the business, not on the automation
AppDev, DevOps, and RPA (Robotic Process Automation)
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#5) Provide a database of history for easy audits
5 Reasons to Automate
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#4) Dependency processing across all platforms
5 Reasons to Automate
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#3) Sophisticated parameter calculation
5 Reasons to Automate
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#2) Automate manual 5250/Telnet menu processing
5 Reasons to Automate
2) Schedule
Batch
1) Learn & Edit
ParmRobot ScheduleRobot Replay
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#1) Event-based scheduling
5 Reasons to Automate
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Business Process Automation with Robot
Batch Automation
Robot Replay
Robot Schedule Enterprise
Robot Schedule
EnterpriseOne + SAP Interfaces
Interactive
…and FTP
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Multi-Platform Command LineCL, Script, .bat file
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External File EventPoint-of-sale, EFT, etc.
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Job Monitoring and NotificationService-level Agreements and Peace of Mind!
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Exception Notification
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Audit Trails for SLAs, Events, and Changes
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Add File Transfer to Process Automation
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• Trigger a MS SQL job• Trigger a job dependency from IBM i, Windows, Linux, and AIX• Update the value of a dynamic parameter, even from Windows!• Purge spooled files• Merge jobs into Robot from the IBM i native scheduler• Send a message to QSYSOPR from another server
Robot Schedule Commands, Functions, and APIs
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• File dependencies• Dynamic variables• 5250 automation• Incorporating Linux, Windows, and AIX commands• Dynamic file transfer• Audit and history reporting• Trigger a sophisticated balancing process
Live Demo
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What IT Problems Do We Solve?HelpSystems Solutions Portfolio
• Enterprise Scheduling and Business Process Automation– IBM i, AIX, UNIX, Linux, Windows
• Monitoring (IBM i, Linux, AIX, Windows)• Security and Compliance (IBM i, AIX, Linux, Windows)• BI and Data Warehouse (IBM i)
– Modernize your data access• Document Life Cycle Management
– Electronic forms, signature, work flow, distribution• Network Monitoring• Backup and HA (IBM i)• Managed File Transfer
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RecapQuestions and Answers
• What we are seeing in the marketplace• 5 Reasons to automate• Robot schedule APIs and commands• Live demo
Automation is a journey!
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Thank you for attending!
Contact InformationWebsite:www.helpsystems.com
Telephone:800-328-1000 sales+1 952-933-0609 support
Presenters: chuck.losinski@helpsystems.com richard.schoen@helpsystems.com
Chuck LosinskiDirector of
Automation TechnologyHelpSystems
Richard SchoenDirector of Document
Management TechnologiesHelpSystems
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