Re: send text msg to phone from IBM i

Jay,

Text messages are sent via a cell phone network -- so in order to send them DIRECTLY, your IBM i would need cell phone service as well as the appropriate hardware to be connected to the cell phone network.

The alternatives that most people use are (1) Email gateways, which you've already mentioned, and (2) various APIs on the Internet that you can call from your program, and they handle the interfacing with the cell phone network.

-SK

On 11/6/2022 5:27 PM, Jay Vaughn wrote:

I know you can send a txt msg with the SNDSMTPEMM command if you know the
phone number's carrier...

Aside from calling a 3rd party web api, is there a way to send text
messages from the IBM i to a phone number if you don't know the carrier?

tia

Jay