Aging RPG Programmers in Charge of Your IBM i?

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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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Richard SchoenDirector of Document Management Technologies

HelpSystems


• What we are seeing in the marketplace• 5 reasons to automate for retiring staff• Robot schedule APIs and commands• Live demo

Agenda


A Sneak Peek at the 2017 IBM i Marketplace Survey ResultsTop IT Priorities


What percentage of your core business runs on IBM i?

A Critical Platform Across the Board


Staff on IBM i


Is Automation a Big Focus?Unattended Operations On IBM i Can Be Realized.


Programmers are Embracing Change on IBM i


• 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


• 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)


#5) Provide a database of history for easy audits

5 Reasons to Automate


#4) Dependency processing across all platforms



#3) Sophisticated parameter calculation



#2) Automate manual 5250/Telnet menu processing


2) Schedule

Batch

1) Learn & Edit

ParmRobot ScheduleRobot Replay


#1) Event-based scheduling



Business Process Automation with Robot

Batch Automation

Robot Replay

Robot Schedule Enterprise

Robot Schedule

EnterpriseOne + SAP Interfaces

Interactive

…and FTP


Multi-Platform Command LineCL, Script, .bat file


External File EventPoint-of-sale, EFT, etc.


Job Monitoring and NotificationService-level Agreements and Peace of Mind!


Exception Notification


Audit Trails for SLAs, Events, and Changes


Add File Transfer to Process Automation


• 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


• 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


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


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!


Thank you for attending!

Contact InformationWebsite:www.helpsystems.com

Telephone:800-328-1000 sales+1 952-933-0609 support

Presenters: [email protected] [email protected]

Chuck LosinskiDirector of

Automation TechnologyHelpSystems

Richard SchoenDirector of Document

Management TechnologiesHelpSystems

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Aging RPG Programmers in Charge of Your IBM i?