Tired of manually filling out the audit log?

Do you spend time each day filling out logs to prove to auditors that you have looked at a system report? Do you spend time entering details into a spreadsheet about reports you reviewed? Do you file these reports and then have trouble retrieving them?

Electronic retrieval is best. For example, we previously used a 3995 optical device; today, we use tape or virtual tape. Robot/REPORTS works with many different storage formats, including 3995 optical devices and virtual tape. You can archive your reports by saving them to a save file and then saving them to tape or virtual tape.

Auditors often ask you to prove that you review daily reports and to provide evidence that you document issues related to security, performance, monitoring, change control, and more. The Robot/REPORTS Browser Interface helps you review Good Morning reports from your other Help/Systems products (see Figure 1).

Figure 1: Use the Robot/REPORTS Browser Interface to review Good Morning reports from multiple products. (Click images to enlarge.)

As you review the reports, you can use Robot/REPORTS to place electronic notes in each report to prove to your auditor that you reviewed it (see Figure 2). The best part—your notes are archived with the report.

Figure 2: Robot/REPORTS allows you to include electronic notes.

Six months later, when an auditor arrives, you can view a list of reports and retrieve a specific report from your save file, tape, or virtual tape archive. Robot/REPORTS displays your reports and their archive status in a Web browser (see Figure 3). Robot/REPORTS makes it easy to present information to an auditor.

Figure 3: Retrieve a report for the auditor using the Robot/REPORTS Browser Interface.

Join the paperless audit revolution and use Robot/REPORTS to reduce printing and eliminate lost reports. Try Robot/REPORTS free for 30 days and see how you'll save money while you reduce and organize your printed output. And check out Help/Systems' other offerings in the MC Showcase Buyer's Guide.

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Tom Huntington is Executive Vice President of Technical Solutions at HelpSystems, and has been with the company for nearly 30 years. He works with business alliances, acquisitions and large customer relationships and ensures that the HelpSystems software works with other major software and hardware vendors worldwide.

Tom often speaks on enterprise scheduling, security, automation topics, IBM i technology, and the HelpSystems products, and hosts technical presentations on a variety of automation topics. He is the author of the HelpSystems IBM i Marketplace Survey and has written articles on automated operations, security, cloud computing, and business intelligence for leading trade journals and newsletters. He was named an IBM Champion in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 for over three decades of advocation and thought leadership on the IBM i platform.

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