How to Untangle IBM i Reports

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How to Untangle IBM i Reports That Word Wrap When You Print Them

IBM i users often face the challenge of their reports word-wrapping, resulting in single records being split across multiple lines—making it difficult to import these reports into Excel for sorting and analysis. If you’re dealing with this issue, here’s a step-by-step guide on howHow to Untangle IBM i Reports, Easily convert hard to read reports into Excel ...</p><a class= Continue Reading →

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IBM i Forms Software (iSeries and AS400). One Form Does it All.

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IBM i Forms Software for the future

As we continue to look ahead for ways to remain the leader in IBM i Forms Software (also called iSeries Forms Software and AS400 Forms Software) we continue to find additional ways to leverage output from the IBM i, iSeries and AS/400 and we have some great news. We will be releasing an update to our Forms software FormFlex V7.0) soon. This new version includes too many enhancements to go over in this short ...

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Using IBM i Monitoring Software to Monitor for Disconnected Jobs

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A lot of shops in the IBM i community still use old-fashioned Telnet terminal emulators such as the Personal Communications product that comes with IBM i Access for Windows, third party emulators like Mochasoft’s TN5250, or generic Telnet emulators that ...

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Problems Take Center Stage When Designing a Document Strategy Part 1

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Problems Take Center Stage When Designing a Document Strategy

Do you ever feel that when you start researching a problem, the more you dig into it, the more complicated it becomes? For example, type your problem into Google and what do you get? Only about 2.5 million hits!

It’s frustrating and overwhelming. Google’s search algorithm aside, one of the reasons you get so much ...

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The What, How, and Who of Document Strategy

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We’re about halfway through this series of blog posts on document strategy (relying heavily on Kevin Craine’s book, Designing a Document Strategy). Before I go further, I want to take a backward glance at the topics covered up to this point:

Part 1. How “key documents” can help focus your document strategy design

Part 2. What a document strategy ...

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When Designing a Document Strategy, First Find Out Where You Are

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Have you been keeping up with this series of blog posts on designing a document strategy? If not, I recommend that you read the previous three posts. In this post, I’m going to cover the first overall step in designing a document strategy, which is the baseline assessment. As in the previous posts on document strategy, I will draw heavily on Kevin Craine’s ...

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One way to Measure Your Company’s Success: How Well Does It Manage Documents?

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When you think of your work, your day-to-day tasks, do you think of the documents you use as tools? Answering “yes” seems obvious, yet for most of us, it’s probably not something we consciously think about. Perhaps this attitude stems from the fact that the document has been with us since the dawn of human civilization. But however ubiquitous ...

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“Key Documents” Can Help Open the Door to a Company-Wide Document Strategy

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Whether you’re in the trenches of IT, at the level of CIO, or somewhere in between, you’ve no doubt heard about the importance of an organization having a document strategy.

Maybe your company already has a document strategy in place or is working toward having one. That’s great! But if you work for one of those 75% of organizations that don’t have a document strategy, read on.

Developing and following a document strategy isn’t as simple as implementing the “best” content management ...

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Losing Sleep Over IBM i System Failures? Get 24/7 Monitoring.

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MessageFlex 2.0 We are excited to announce a major upgrade to MessageFlex, our system notification and monitoring software. We first introduced MessageFlex in 2009 as a tool for IT Managers to be notified 24/7 about any interruptions or malfunctions to their IBM i, iSeries, and AS/400.  It’s a “peace of mind” protocol that generates an immediate text message, email, or ...

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