RE: Pager Companies

Debbie:
We have ditched all our pagers in favor of digital cell phones.  One number
to remember is nice.  Our provider is Sprint PCS and we send short text
messages from the AS400 to our cell phones.  Also Sprint has a TAPI 1.5
gateway number so any product that support TAPI can send messages.  We are
also using What't UP gold to monitor our network and it also sends messages
to our cell phones.  Since most people that carry a pager also carry a cell
phone, it makes more sense to only carry a single device.

As a side note, I used to carry a pager, cell phone and palm computer
(either a Palm Pilot or Pocket PC) so when a customer had an issue I could
dial up on my pocket PC attached to my cell phone.  As cool as that was, I
now have Kyocera's new Smartphone (QCP-6035).  It is a Palm powered phone
and runs any Palm OS application.  So I have a telnet emulator on it and can
now dial my clients AS/400s, routers, etc. directly from my phone.  Sure it
is small, but it works and gets the job done.

cjg


Carl J. Galgano
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
550 Kennesaw Avenue, Suite 800
Marietta, GA  30060
(770) 422-2995 - voice
(419) 730-8212 - fax
mailto:cgalgano@ediconsulting.com
http://www.ediconsulting.com
AS400 EDI, Networking, E-Commerce and Communications Consulting and
Implementation
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Debbie Panco
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 1:22 PM
To: MIDRANGE
Subject: Pager Companies


Group,

This may be a bit off topic, but I am sure that many of us carry pagers
for work purposes.  We are not very satisfied with our current pager
company (Arch) and are looking for a replacement.  I am looking for
some feed back regarding companies serving the Northeast Ohio
area.  Good experiences?  Bad experiences?  A company whom you
would or wouldn't refer?

Also, is there anyone who is doing in-house paging from their AS400
possibly using RPG/ICF file as opposed to utilizing an external
software product like Robot?   We currently use an RPG program
to page our programmer on call.  It is very basic and only dials the
pager number and upon making a connection a "tone only" page
is sent to the pager (analog, not digital).  We would like to refine
this to send a numeric page to the pager (digital).

If this is a little too off topic, you may respond to me privately.


Thanks,

Deborah Panco
Senior Systems Analyst / Project Leader
United Consumer Financial Services
dpanco43@ix.netcom.com
440-835-6674

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