RE: Can I send a message from the iSeries to a cell phone?

There's a much easier way. I do send an E-mail message from our iSeries
directly to the phone. For T-mobile it is 9999999999@xxxxxxxxxxx where the
9's is the phone number. For Alltel it is 9999999999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Each carrier has a different E-mail address. Just hit their Web Site and it
will tell you what it is. Your are limited to I think 160 characters so it
needs to be short and sweet.


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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Wilt
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2:04 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Can I send a message from the iSeries to a cell phone?

All you need is a modem and a little code; assuming your cell phone provider
supports TAP, most did and probably still do. Verizon for
example:

Protocol: Standard TAP
Toll-Free TAP Access Number: 1-866-823-0501 Baud Rate Range: 300-19,200 bps
Data Settings: 7 data bits, even parity 1 stop bit Message Length: 160
characters Wait to Connect: 60 seconds or longer

You could probably adapt some open-source code to the system i.

Honestly however, I'd prefer to simply bur some monitoring software that had
the capability built in.

Bytware's Messager Plus comes to mind. I've used that myself.
Help/Systems has a similar offering under their ROBOT brand.

Charles


On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I would love for there to be a way to send SMS messages to cell phones
from the System i, but don't know of one. There's probably something
for purchase somewhere.

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