AS400 / Operations Automation -Reply

[John Cirocco <JCirocco@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave,

>>I have an eye on automating my night operations shift. For the past 8 
>>years we have maintained 24-7 shifts but midnight to six is really just 
>>sys monitoring stuff for major failures, batch jobs and tape drives. Can
>>anyone recommend any good research resources for this subject or
>>maybe just some general advice. I am assuming I need a good
>>message monitor/page system, either a tape library robot or maybe a
>>3590, and a decent job scheduler. Am I leaving out any biggies?

Any topic regarding operations automation should start with Help
Systems Robot scheduler (IMHO).  They also have paging software,
message monitoring, backup monitoring, etc, etc, etc.  I will NEVER run an
AS/400 without Robot.

As for tape drives, I have 3570's.  Little slower than 3590's but alsomuch
less money.  Uncompressed, the 3570 handles 100gb and more with
compression.

HTH,
John Cirocco
Computer Task Group, Inc.
(716) 888-3566
JCirocco@gw.ctg.com

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