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An Emergency Mass Notification Interface

We’ve built a custom Interface between an IBM Power System Power8 (OS/400 V7R2) and a Cloud based application in which an automatic process (using WRKJOBSCDE, SFTP and Public Key Authentication- no end user logon required) provides contact information so that authorized senders on the Cloud based application may send mass notifications (Emails and SMS text) in case of an emergency.

Safety in case of an emergency is top priority!

So, to facilitate and expedite sending the emergency notifications, this interface creates and updates multiple pre-determined groups on the Cloud application so that an authorized sender may quickly select from a drop-down menu a group of recipients.

***Note: This interface used custom programming (RPGLE and CLLE) along with JD Edwards One World DREAM Writer features to extract the information.  We created, documented, and executed user acceptance testing plans.  We also provided training documentation and performed end user training.***