Re: send text msg to phone from IBM i

Hello Jay,

Am 07.11.2022 um 14:46 schrieb Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>:

You know, here's my question about this.

Everyone has smart phones now. What's the difference between getting an alert for a text or an email? Do people just ignore email alerts?

Well, another way I'm exploiting (not for IBM i, though) is a Cisco 1100 series Router we're primarily using for VPN backup via LTE — in case the main internet connection goes down. You can configure the router to log in via ssh, with key and not password auth. And simply send an SMS via command line:

ssh myuser@myrouter "Cellular 0/2/0 lte sms send [number] [up to 160 chars of text]"

No reliance on internet infrastructure and -services, just LAN. No need to pre-route messages depending on the recipient to different carrier "APIs". Internet connections are all but reliable, when looking at them end-to-end.

I once had a "GSM modem". You connect that thing's USB port to a Linux box and it looks like an ordinary serial connected modem from the 1990's. You can send AT commands and use it for GSM data transfer (painfully slow 9600 bps), or SMS sending. I'm sure, there are newer, probably LAN based products which essentially do the same. Maybe with some http based API? Searching for "on premises SMS gateway" on Google is left as exercise to the reader. :-)

:wq! PoC