Sorry if this sounds like a marketing entry, but it probably will. A little over two years ago I wrote a little product (called SyzTXT/z) that works with our other products but especially with the console message product (SyzMPF/z) so that if something happens that the site feels is important (abend, IP attack, or anything or any console event at all), SyzMPF/z will use SyzTXT/z to send email or SMS text to whoever (up to 255 users or groups of users) they want to get the messages. We also have another product (SyzNotify) that will send the highest condition (or abend) codes (similar to our SyzEmail product, except that SyzNOTIFY is automatic where SyzEmail requires JCL be added to the task) via email or sms text of any job (whether it works or not).
At the time I wrote them it seemed to me that it had a small niche, but we found that people tend to buy some of our other products just because they want to use the smaller "niche" ones like SyzTXT and SyzNOTIFY. I would imagine that the reason is that people just want to be informed of what's happening and if you can keep them from having to log on, (i.e. they jsut look at there text message on their iPhone), then they feel better about how things are running. End of marketing :) Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
