I highly recommend using XMITIP too if you are running SMTP. We've been using it at my site for over 10 years now without any issues for sending email to Lotus Notes, MS Exchange, pagers, cell phones and Fax.
Mark T. Regan, K8MTR CTO1, USNR-Retired 1969-1991 On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:07 AM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Tim Hare <haresystemssupp...@comcast.net> > wrote: > > > Thanks for the info... Using a RESTFUL interface is probably the way to > go > > for the use cases I had in mined - primarily having an automated > operations > > tool send notifications to support personnel. We used to have a way to > do > > it for pagers but never got one built when cell phones became the > standard > > issue for on call people. > > > > > We do that by using a "email to SMS gateway". That is, we define a MS > Exchange email address for the support person which is like: > john.mckown(cell) . On z/OS, we send an email, using XMITIP, to this > address. The MS Exchange > > then relays it on to the "telephone_number@cell-provider" address which > sends it out (MMS actuall) to the cell phone. > > > -- > The unfacts, did we have them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our > certitude. > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
