Specifications

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TAP Protocol
TAP Protocol
Refer to Appendix A in Series 2000 Paging Terminals Installation and Maintenance for a
summary of the TAP communications protocol.
Subscriber Database
For dial-up alphanumeric paging over DID phone lines, you need to create an access path
that will activate the card’s modem for alpha messaging. (See below if you are using
overdial lines.) To do this, select a single Subscriber ID that can be called from the phone
system and mark its Status = A (alpha access) as shown below. Use the ZbaseW Edit,
Subscribers menu item to do this. No other fields are relevant to the Alpha Access number.
Figure 16: ZbaseW — Edit Subscribers with Status set to “A”
Next, you need to program each of your alpha capable pagers in the subscriber database.
This is done as described in the Managing the Subscriber Database with ZbaseW on page
55. Make sure to set Status = V (valid) to activate paging, set the Display Limit according
to the pager’s storage limitations, enter the proper Capcode, and mark the Numeric/Alpha
field A. The example below shows a GSC PMR-2000 alpha pager:
Figure 17: ZbaseW — Edit Subscribers with Status set to “V”
The “Name” field should always be filled in with the subscriber name. If an alphanumeric
page is being entered from a VDT, the contents of this field are sent to the VDT so the
operator may confirm that the correct subscriber ID has been entered.
“Send Empty Message” has been set to “N” to disable paging if no message is entered.
This allows a page to be canceled by pressing Enter at the message prompt if an incorrect
subscriber ID was entered.
After you make Edit changes to the Subscriber Database to enter or modify Alpha Access numbers
or Alpha pagers, be sure to transfer these changes to the paging terminal with the Update menu.
(See Transfer Message Changes on page 164 for details)
Overdial Lines
Overdial lines (End-to-End) are typically set up and used differently than DID lines when
using alpha. There is no ZbaseW Alpha Access record (Status A) entry needed. This is
because many alpha entry devices cannot overdial a second number once they have dialed