2009/3/17 Ulrich Krueger <u...@pacbell.net>: > Glad to hear that this is a non-issue for your shop, Steve. > I just felt like I had to climb up on my soap-box and point this potential > pitfall out to you as well as to the rest of the user community so they > don't have to suffer through the same issues that I had to experience. > > If you happen to have some more time to play with it, I sure would like to > see some COBOL code that uses dynamic allocation to create one SPOOL file > per email message. > At my shop, when I was finally able to pinpoint where the SMTP performance > problems originated from, I was lucky. A single JCL-procedure was used to > create the mass-mail file(s). So, instead of sending it directly to > SYSOUT=(B,SMTP), I added a step to execute a REXX - exec which I had > written. It split the big file into individual SPOOL files, one per email > message. Worked like a charm, once I had it all figured out. No more SMTP > performance problems, no more nasty calls from users.
Shouldn't someone fix the SMTP server instead...? Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
