Brian Westerman wrote: >I don't get it, we've been sending Text messages and email >from the mainframe for almost 15 years now.
Very true. All the major carriers in the U.S. have (or at least had) e-mail to SMS gateways for text messaging, and we (collectively) have been using those for a long time, direct from z/OS. Unfortunately outside the U.S. such carrier-operated gateways are much less common. SMPP is the classic text messaging protocol, approaching 20 years of history, but REST APIs are now getting quite popular. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
