RE: Paging software for the iSeries

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> I am the original poster.
>

Oh, sorry... I didn't pay that much attention to the start of this thread
because it sounded like you were looking to acquire software, rather than
write it.  (and I don't sell paging software)


> Actually, email may be down a lot more than the lan line / TCP itself.
> That whole native iSeries MSF / SMTP stuff is very thin on reliability.
> It's a cr@p shoot to get it to start automatically.  Starts doing a
> chicken and egg thing over who's supposed to start first.  And one big
> thing, if disk exceeds threshold then it dies, but I don't think that TCP
> as a whole dies.

Hmmm... never used it.  (I wrote my own SMTP way back when)


> Formatting for each website does sound disgusting.  Especially I can see
> how most web hacks would rearrange the fields on the screen just to seem
> productive.

The sequence of the fields on the screen won't matter, as long as their
still using the same variable names...  Normally the data you send in a
post request would look like:

    To=1235551212&Message=Rob,+Please+pick+up+milk!

So, as long as the phone number field is still called "to", and the
message field is still called "message", it doesn't matter if they're
moved around to different places on the screen.

The part that would change would be the URL that you're sending it to, and
the variables that things get assigned to.

> I bet it would be as bad as using links to IBM url's   :-)
> (Hey may, if they're not doing it by hand, they're not seeing our flaming
> logo's!)

True.  But, since most paging companies do accept modem and e-mail pages,
I doubt that they're really worried about people seeing their logos...