Re: Pager Companies

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

We are using Arch in Northeast Indiana.  One feature that I like is the
ability to send email from my 400 to the pager using SNDEMAIL.  For example
if your pager number was 219-555-1212 you could send an email to
2195551212@epage.arch.com.  Granted, there are times when you need to get
paged when email won't work (think disk threshold).  There was a paging
software company that I used to like, called Page Alert.  They sold out to
LXI and service tanked - they blame everything on Arch now.  (If your
dissatisfied with Arch you might tend to agree).  There is another paging
software company called Byteware that I've heard a lot of good comments
about.  I agree that the people at Robot must s%$& gold.

PS
I think I performed a DOS attack on Arch some time ago.  Had a looping
program send out too many, far too many, pages.  (I turned my pager off for
3 days).  I tried to tell them I DOSed them.  However they didn't agree
because 'nobody can get pages now'.

Rob Berendt

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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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