RE: Paging from Power System running IBM i

Good point.

Does anyone have an example program or someplace I can learn what I need to
send to a modem to be able to send a page??

Sounds like it could be a bit of a learning curve here for me.

John



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The funny thing was, when we still used pagers, we insisted on the modem.
After all, it's rather hard to page you via ethernet when that line is down,
or QMSF is down, or "Serious Storage Condition exists" shuts down smtp. And
that last one is one you definitely want to get paged on.


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From: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 02/24/2012 07:36 AM
Subject: Re: Paging from Power System running IBM i
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Hi John

Just did a quick search for Unication - I think they are only the
manufacturers of the pagers - they don't seem to provide the pager
service.

So, as Eric suggested, find out who the service provider is, and find
out whether they have that SMTP gateway - I suspect that most services
offer it, considering that modems are so rare these days.

Good luck
Vern

On 2/23/2012 4:42 PM, John Allen wrote:

Believe it or not we have a customer that has employees carrying pagers
(Hospital)

Their employees carry pagers by Unication.



Instead of us emailing notifications of system messages/issues they want

us

to sending via a page.



Does anyone have any ideas on how one would start looking into how to do
this (I have to write a program)

Not allowed to use a modem off the Power System because it may be down.

Are there any example programs or freeware available for this?



Or does anyone know someone with the knowledge to write the program(s)

for

us.

(Nice project for an unemployed programmer)



I know there are 3rd party vendors that have software that can do this

but

this is not allowed.



Thanks



John