IBM Facsimile Support for IBM i

Integrated fax for your office and your applications

IBM Facsimile Support for i enables your users and your applications to send and receive faxes. Combined with native integrated modem hardware solutions, it provides a convenient, cost-efficient fax solution for your business. It provides users with direct fax capabilities, which help increase operational efficiency and productivity through rapid information dispersal. Cost savings may also be realized through reduced human intervention time, paper cost, telephone charges, postage charges and document delivery time. Also, there is an audit trail of both inbound and outbound activity to track the flow of your business data.

Facsimile Support provides the base product enablers to fax IBM i or PC output (such as text, images, or graphics) and to receive incoming faxes. Integration of the product with AnyMail Mail Server Framework allows users of various electronic mail services to exchange mail. The integration allows electronic mail to be sent to a fax machine as easily as it is sent to another computer.

A more robust electronic mail handling fax alternative does exist with the IBM Integrated Domino Fax product, 5733-FXD. Information can be found on the Domino Fax Web site.

Facsimile Support features include:

Growth and flexibility, as it is supported on the entire range of IBM i servers and can grow as your needs do
Fax profiles that allow customization according to end users' requirements
Fax profiles, a fax phone book and fax distribution lists
DTMF routing
Direct Inward Dialing (D.I.D.) inbound routing on the Multi-Tech MT5634ZBA-DID Direct Inward Dial external modem.
Automatic routing and processing of inbound faxes based on Transmitting Subscriber Identifier (TSI) data
Detailed auditing of all outbound and inbound transactions
Automatic retry of failed faxes
Security for transmission of sensitive information
Capability to send faxes during off-shift hours when telephone rates are less expensive
Faxing of documents from PC applications

Facsimile Support provides a complete solution for integrating fax into your business solutions. For the end user, functions can be accessed from a menu, directly from a command line, or through an application. Regardless of the way the user accesses the feature, the interface remains consistent. Application developers can easily enhance an application with fax by calling any of the functions provided.