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In my frustration and greed for success, even after forgetting about the idea for a while because it made me feel bad, I began writing an SQABasic script to run in Rational Robot whose purpose was to run Rational Performance Tester functions. As an idea, it works well except it also currently requires a Perl script to make things sorta standard. Software Group sent me a PDF with their suggestion of creating a service for themselves implemented much more skimpily than Gomez. I considered talking to my manager about pursuing a patent titled Rational for Enterprise Automation. Originally, it was going to be Rational Robot for Enterprise Automation, but now that I've skimmed the documentation for Rational Functional Tester, the title's been revised. While chatting about it outside, I said I have delusions of grandeur about seeing it implemented across operations. Once during my second stint with IBM, my first line manager asked me if I'd like to pursue a patent for what was called the Configuration Audit Tool, aka CAT. I said I didn't think it would be of monetary value after I was told it costs $10,000. What good is there in getting a patent if it won't make you money. Now using software intended for automating testing of applications as a way of automating the enterprise is nothing I've heard of discussed in any IT environments where I've worked. Rational Robot has actually been around longer than before I worked for the IRS, and their enterprise has never been dwarfed by any since. Not even Nokia's, although their Tivoli Configuration Manager implementation which they did not operate always functioned, and is second. I was going to take that business away from Nokia's service provider but I guess they didn't think it would save them money. Since the software is primarily powerful on Microsoft Windows, I thought about how there could be a Robot for every team. They could configure the network too. I made one interact with a zOS application via a 3270 emulator at the beginning of the year. Making one run Cisco IOS commands would be nostalgic.