How to Turn End-of-Month into Just Another Day

How to Turn End-of-Month

into Just Another Day

Eliminating Month-End Anxietywith Automation

Application Monitoring from Every Angle 2

Chuck LosinskiDirector of Automation Technology

HelpSystems

How to Turn End-of-Monthinto Just Another Day

Broadcasting live from Fleet, England and Eden Prairie, Minnesota USA

Kevin SquiresSenior Technical Consultant

HelpSystems


With ~300 employees and 15 offices worldwide

Global Perspective


• What Causes Us Anxiety?• Interview with Charles Bertsch,

Heartland Financial• Workflow Automation• Exception Handling

Agenda


What Causes Month-End Anxiety?

• Service-level agreements (SLAs)• Manual processing mistakes• Nighttime unsupervised processing• Programmers on-call• Timing IBM i tasks with Windows servers• Audits• Costs associated with all of the above!




Agenda

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Charles Bertsch VP, Computer Operations Manager

Dubuque, Iowa USA

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• Headquartered in Dubuque, Iowa• Over $6 billion in total assets• 9 Community Banks with over 80 branch

locations in 10 states

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Power7 Server:• iOS 7.1• 4 partitions• Replicate to another facility using iTera• EMC Data Domain VTL• Soon to upgrade to Power8!

Banking on IBM i 10

Core Software• Fiserv Signature Core Banking Application

HelpSystems• Robot CONSOLE – Message and resource

automation• Robot SCHEDULE – Job automation• Robot SCHEDULE Enterprise – Windows integration• Robot ALERT – Event escalation• Robot SPACE – Disk space management• DeliverNow from RJS

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Challenges• Manual operations• Temperamental Windows schedulers• Coordinating schedules• Tight processing window• Growing• Audits

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Workload Automation and Monitoring Challenges• Repetitive processing needs to be automated• Temperamental Windows Schedulers• Coordinating IBM i with Windows tasks• The business and I.T. operations are growing• Adjusting schedules for bank holidays• Audit requirements for I.T. operations• Identifying processing errors• Monitor mission critical systems 24x7• Audit critical backups

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Agenda

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Batch

Robot REPLAY

Robot SCHEDULE Enterprise

Robot SCHEDULE

EnterpriseOne + SAP Interfaces

Interactive

…and FTP

Job Schedule Automation and Integration

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Workflow Automation in Mobile

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Operations Dashboard

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Schedule Activity

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Live Demo

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Live Demo

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Exception Handling with Robot

Resources:Devices,subsystems,jobs, job queues,CPU, HTTP,MQSeries

Logs:QAUDJRNFTPQHST

MessageQueues:QSYSOPR…

Robot CONSOLE Robot ALERTTwo-Way

SMTP/POP3, SNMP, SMS

Automate or Escalate

Message Center

Application Logs:WebSphereSAPDominoJava

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Exception Handling with Robot

Resources:Devices,subsystems,jobs, job queues,CPU, HTTP,MQSeries

Logs:QAUDJRNFTPQHST

MessageQueues:QSYSOPR…

Robot CONSOLE Robot ALERTTwo-Way

SMTP/POP3, SNMP, SMS

Automate or Escalate

Message Center

Application Logs:WebSphereSAPDominoJava

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PRESENTATION RECAP:

Questions?

• What Causes Us Anxiety?• Interview with Charles Bertsch, Heartland

Financial• Workflow Automation• Exception Handling

Website: www.helpsystems.com

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

Presenters: [email protected] [email protected]

Contact Information

Chuck LosinskiDirector of Automation

Technology

Thanks for joining us!

Kevin SquiresSenior

Technical Consultant