March 2008 Q&A Column

Can Robot/ALERT send text messages to cell phones?
Yes. Use Robot/GUIDE to help you set up a TCP/IP vendor. It works just like sending e-mail to any e-mail address with Robot/ALERT.

I have a job that runs every day. On certain days when the job completes, I want a Robot/SCHEDULE job to react to its completion. Can I create a reactive job and specify which days I want it to run?
If you have a reactive job and days to run specified, Robot/SCHEDULE looks for both conditions before it runs the reactive job. Therefore, if the prerequisite job completes and it is a day the reactive job is scheduled to run, Robot/SCHEDULE runs it. If the prerequisite job does not run, the reactive job will not run. If the reactive job has a day and time specified, and the prerequisite job has not run, you get a W (warning) status on the reactive job indicating that, “Not all prerequisites have been met.”