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Enterprises seeking an industrial-strength job scheduling solution to save time and increase efficiency
About Robot Schedule
Every data center manager wants their IT team to be efficient, meet service-level agreements, and avoid processing errors. Automated job scheduling and batch job management free you and your operators to be more productive. And Robot Schedule is the starting point for any automation project requiring IBM i. Robot Schedule’s workload automation capabilities allow users to automate everything from simple jobs to complex, event-driven processes on multiple platforms and centralize management from your most reliable system, IBM i. Just create a calendar of when and how jobs should run, and the software will do the rest. Your operators have enough tasks on their plates to worry about babysitting scheduled jobs in order to ensure they run on time and in the right order. You and your team can rely on Robot Schedule to provide powerful workload automation for a smoother, error-free job schedule. Choose from more than 25 scheduling parameters.
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