AF/REMOTE is certainly a good way to do this. Many products can send alerts of various kinds. Yet another example is zAlert:
http://www.consul.com/Content.asp?id=98 If you're looking for ways to send e-mail from z/OS via SMTP directly to a pager gateway, there's an interesting introductory page here: http://www.planetmvs.com/mvsmail/index.html XMITIP looks quite interesting: http://www.lbdsoftware.com/xmitip.html SNPP (Simple Network Paging Protocol, RFC 1861) is another way to send pages. (There are many pager protocols. SNPP is pretty common.) There's a list of carriers that support SNPP, along with addresses, here: http://www.notepager.com/snpp.htm All you need is an SNPP client for z/OS. There are several options, especially if you're looking for an excuse to try something potentially new. If you use Google you can find examples written in several languages, including Perl, PHP, Java, and even REXX (in an OS/2 REXX flavor), to pick four of the no-charge z/OS programming languages. I found the REXX example here: http://www.dreamlandbbs.com/files/gfd/netmisc/index.html Look for SNPPREXX.ZIP. One of the Java examples is found here: http://jsnpp.sourceforge.net There's a sample Java program in the jsnpp download that shows how to send a message to a pager. Here's the link to Net::SNPP, a Perl client: http://search.cpan.org/~tobeya/Net-SNPP-1.17/lib/Net/SNPP.pm There's a link to the Net::SNPP source code near the top of this page. Perl for z/OS is available here: http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/perl/index.html If you do come up with something interesting (e.g. a modification of that REXX script), how about submitting it to CBTTAPE? Hope that helps! - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
