MBXX

[no-sme-here]

Something strange is occurring that our senior Nortel guy has never seen before so I thought I would post it her in case anyone can shed light on it. When printing out NPA's in ld 90 to determine if 1844 is already added as an NPA or SPN I get this on any random entry I type in:

>ld 90
ESN000

MEM AVAIL: (U/P): 46288936 USED U P: 4945815 377918 TOT: 51612669
DISK SPACE NEEDED: 598 KBYTES
REQ prt
CUST 0
FEAT net
TRAN ac1
TYPE npa
NPA 1888
RLI 0
SDRR NONE
MBXX 3?5?2?9

MBXX 5?

MBXX

MBXX 2

MBXX 96334?5

MBXX 4?4?343

MBXX ?53?894

MBXX 42?1

MBXX 485?

MBXX

MBXX 89*?86?

MBXX

MBXX 8

MBXX

MBXX ??74864

MBXX ??01

MBXX

MBXX

MBXX

MBXX

NOTE: This would run forever, with some strings growing in length from 4 to 7 digits. Like, ??74864 would change to ?274864 (one less ? mark which I assume is Nortel speak for an ARS wildcard). I **** out of it though.
I am still researching but wanted to share it here. Any one run into this please?
Thanks!

 

[sporty2]

hdhaddock,

Maybe mobile extensions?

Just a thought.

sporty2

 

[KCFLHRC]

That's a new toll free area code and should be built like 1800, 1888, etc as an SPN usually. I would out it as an NPA and put it back in as an SPN.

 

[no-sme-here]

Thanks KCFLHRC. I know what it is. And yes, they should have but they are all NPA's in this PBX we inherited. I was asking if anyone had seen a string run like I showed when they do a print in ld 90.
Sporty2. Thanks much. After more research it states this briefly in one section and I can look deeper:
(Excerpt from Communication Server 1000 Features and Services Fundamentals - Book 4 of 6 (I to M)) under the heading; Dialable Single Number Mobile Number:

• MBXX can be multi-digit and must be the dialed digits followed after SPN.

As I stated when adding this thread my concern is that when I print in ld 90 for an NPA of 18xx I get this forever running string of MBXX entries. That should not happen. I am leaning towards someone at some time must have added some sort of 18x string somewhere that is now causing this Meridian CS1000 to freak out and feel it needs to show me everything 18x related. Too bad Nortel could not purchase Lucent dialplan, ARS analysis and UDP back in the day huh? (grin)....
Any ideas folks? I am mystified!

 

[KCFLHRC]

I have never seen it, but an easy thing to try is out them as NPA's and rebuild them as SPN's and see if the trouble goes away.