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Press Release

Announcing ACO PAGER™ and Two-Way Messaging with E-mail

Use your e-mail client to remotely manage your AS/400® (or System i®) over the Internet (or Intranet).

For Immediate Release

NORTHWEST INDIANA/CHICAGOLAND, September 9, 2000--DDL Systems Consulting, Inc. announces ACO PAGER™ Message Alert System Version 4.5. With the commercial release of ACO PAGER™ v4.5 your support personnel can remotely manage your AS/400 (or System i) using any MIME compatible e-mail client like Outlook or Notes. Replies or commands (entered on the e-mail client) are sent to the Internet (or Intranet) and subsequently delivered to your AS/400® (or System i®) system. ACO PAGER™, when used in conjunction with your e-mail client, provides you with the ability to remotely manage your AS/400® (or System i®) system.

How does ACO PAGER integrate e-mail with two-way messaging?

Utilizing ACO PAGER™’s advanced monitoring and alert facilities your support personnel receive system, application, and network events (messages) that your installation considers significant on their e-mail client. ACO PAGER™’s messaging agents determine the appropriate "on duty" support personnel responsible for managing the event and e-mail messages to the Internet (or Intranet). As a result, event messages appear in their e-mail inbox (see sample below).

ACO PAGER™’s messaging agents encrypt all transactions before sending them over the Internet -- ensuring security and privacy.

On the e-mail client press the "Reply" button, then, enter one of the allowable values identified on the message and click "Send" (see example below).

Your reply/command is sent to your AS/400® (or System i®) via the Internet (or Intranet) and subsequently processed by ACO PAGER™’s two-way messaging agent(s). Then, using ACO PAGER™’s confirmation of delivery feature, our messaging agents ensure that your two-way reply (or command) has been successfully processed on the AS/400® (or System i®) via a reply acknowledgment message (see below).

More Two-Way Messaging Options

Use an Internet-ready Smartphone

Use the ACO Client™ and your favorite web browser

Use virtually any two-way capable pager

System Requirements

System Requirements

Your system may require installation of IBM PTF’s to ensure proper operation of the ACO products. Several important IBM PTF’s are required to properly run certain SQL statements based on the installed version of IBM i 6.1 (and i5/OS). These PTF’s are included in the latest version of the database group PTF for each respective release.

IBM i 6.1 required PTF's (not included in cumulative package)
SI38393	See APAR SE41176

IBM i5/OS 5.4 required PTF's (not included in cumulative package)
None

We STRONGLY recommend that you put in place a process to regularly obtain (and apply) the latest cumulative PTF, HIPER group PTF, and database group PTF packages to your System i (and AS/400) system(s).

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Hardware Requirements
Requires one standard System i V.24 SDLC communications line and one ECS (or Hayes® compatible) modem (or a properly configured SMTP e-mail connection to the Internet). Works with all alphanumeric and two-way pagers, properly equipped cellular phones, and smartphones (like BlackBerry®).

Software Requirements
ACO PAGER™, ACO NET™, ACO ESI™, and ACO CLIENT™ execute on System i® systems (all models) running V5R4M0 (or higher). ACO Client™ requires WebSphere® Application Server 6.1 (or higher), WebSphere® Application Server - Express, or any Java 1.4 (or higher) compliant web application server like Apache. ACO ESI™ requires a separately licensed copy of ACO PAGER™ and a separately licensed copy of one of the following enterprise systems; IBM Tivoli® Monitoring 6.2 (or higher) or IBM Tivoli® Netcool/OMNIbus 7.3 (or higher).

Notice: The enterprise system software may also require the purchase of other hardware and licensed software. This hardware and software is available from IBM (or other business partners) at an additional fee and is not included in the purchase of the ACO ESI™ software product.

ACO ESI™ optionally monitors your network connected Windows® servers using a Windows compliant software agent. The Windows® agent software is available for purchase (at a nominal fee) from one of our business partners. Monitoring your Windows servers does not require the installation (or use) of an enterprise system software product.

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