I've made (limited) use of SMS-to-text for years. The problem from my perspective is that you have to know which carrier the phone is connected to. That's especially tricky these days because users can move their phones from carrier to carrier without having to change numbers. It's one thing for personal use, quite another for a large institution seeking to send alerts to employees, students, etc.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Friday, April 07, 2017 6:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Program software to make SMS calls On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 8:38 AM, James Wellingtin <jameswelling...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey > Does anybody know of any software for mainframe Z/OS where you can > send SMS messages to a mobile phone and maybe make a predefined speak > to a mobile phone. > > Or maybe specify a way to do it. > > > It can be an open source code., or a plugin from a a payable software > company Of course a free of charge would be preferable. > > You maybe already make use of it , and could specify in what way you > used it and your experience with it. > > All kind of input would be appreciated. > We do this all the time for text messages (not speech). It is basically easy to do when you use an email-to-sms gateway. From a quick Google search on "email sms gateway", I see: Sending an email as an SMS CarrierSMS gateway domain Sprint [insert 10-digit number]@messaging.sprintpcs.com T-Mobile [insert 10-digit number]@tmomail.net U.S. Cellular [insert 10-digit number]@email.uscc.net Verizon [insert 10-digit number]@vtext.com There are also businesses which supply this function which the above search will also bring up. We use XMITIP to send the email out via our MS Exchange/365 server. The z/OS side just specifies the appropriate local MS Exchange address (e.g. john.mckown.sms@<exchange.server>) which it converts to aaa-bbb-cccc@<one of the gateways above> > > > Regards > James > > -- "Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'." -- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
