RE: Suggest automated call announcer

Check with Patrick Townsend.  www.patownsend.com.  They have
software/hardware solutions that will let you talk to serial devices
over TCP/IP.

Art Tostaine, Jr.
CCA, Inc.
Jackson, NJ 08527


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger
Vicker, CCP
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 11:06 PM
To: midrange-nontech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Suggest automated call announcer

I have a customer that is using a device from US Netcom to call utility
customers and warn them of impending service interruptions. Even though
it attaches via a serial port they won't release the protocol and
require the use of a PC. This makes it a manual process to load the list
(file not individual numbers) and it only prints the results report so
it has to be manually re-entered into the customers. US Netcom finally
provided some APIs to the PC programs but this still requires a PC and
VB programs. I would like to find something that can interface directly
to the iSeries via serial or maybe even TCP. They only use one phone
line so it doesn't need to be a very large system.
Roger Vicker, CCP