RENO, Nevada—Bytware, Inc., announces that with the increasing popularity of SMS/GSM notification devices, specifically in North America, and with the recent announcement that AT&T is moving from TAP to SMS/GSM standards, Bytware’s Messenger products support of this emerging protocol has been enhanced.Bytware’s Messenger products now support SMS (Short Message Service) paging, using the GSM (Global System Mobile Communication) protocol. This service will not require a paging company and will allow the user to connect a cell phone (or other GSM device) directly to the AS/400 to use as a modem. You will then be able to send text messages directly to other cell phones and pagers, as well as reply to messages sent using the GSM protocol. The receiving device does not need to be GSM.

This enhancement to MessengerPlus and MessengerConsole 5.56 provides support for using a GSM mobile phone as a modem. Using a GSM modem provides the following advantages:

• SMS messages can be sent directly without the use of a TAP or e-mail gateway.
• System messages can be answered by replying to the SMS messages.
• SMS messages can be sent to any other phone, or pager in the world without the need for multiple gateways. Even if the receiving device is not GSM, we have been able to send messages to multiple carriers and devices without knowing anything more than the device’s mobile number/phone number.
• A cellular phone provides improved tolerance to power failures and phone line problems. Since GSM cellular modems send their information wirelessly, modem-to-modem incompatibility issues are eliminated.

Bytware offers a suite of monitoring and notification products tailored to managing events across single, multiple, and partitioned iSeries systems. The Messenger product suite includes MessengerConsole and MessengerPlus. Learn more about our monitoring, paging, and consoling solutions.

RENO, Nevada—Bytware, Inc. (www.bytware.com) announces MessengerPlus 5.56 and MessengerConsole 5.56, the latest versions of Bytware’s systems management monitoring, paging, consoling and reporting solutions. Significant enhancements have been made to both these products in an effort to further expand on their notification functionality.

New and improved features include:

Support for the IBM Internal Modem
Need an extra V.24 port? MessengerPlus and MessengerConsole 5.56 can utilize the IBM Internal Modem to send text messages to your pager or cell phone. Simply specify the internal modem resource name (typically CMN01) and the rest is handled for you automatically. Besides freeing up a v.24 resource, an additional benefit to using the Internal Modem is increased reliability through the elimination of the external cables, power supply and additional phone line. Of course you’ll also get a new 2400 baud paperweight …

E-mail Pager Enhancement
Now you can create a generic e-mail pager using the format &U@your-domain.com and Messenger will automatically substitute the &U with the user name of the job that generated the message. For example, assume you have 10 users that each wanted to be notified by e-mail when their jobs completed. You can now create a single *EMAIL pager with an address of &U@your-domain.com. When USERA’s job completes, Messenger will send the message to USERA@your-domain.com. Previously you would have created 10 *EMAIL pagers, now you only have to create 1.

Group and Pager Schedules
Various improvements have been made to the user interface addressing issues with editing Group and Pager schedules.

Improved Pager List Escalation
If a message could not be delivered to any pager on the list, the entire message would go to ERR status and the remaining pagers would not be tried. Improved code to continue with the remaining pagers.

To learn more about MessengerPlus and MessengerConsole 5.56, please contact Bytware, Inc., 775.851.2900, or visit the MessengerPlus or MessengerConsole product pages.