If you know how often the email is to be sent (1/2/3/4 times a day) and the Bounce (IPL) schedule, you can repeat the DDNAME and each message will use 1 DDNAME iteration.
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 8:08 PM Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > > I am designing a long-running Rexx program that will from time to time > generate an e-mail via the SMTP server. The idea is to allocate a DD > SYSOUT=(B,SMTP) and write the SMTP commands to it. I've never done that > before so I have some questions: > > - Am I correct in my assumption that I will have to "spin" the dataset > before the SMTP server will pick it up? > - Assuming Yes to the first question, am I correct (a.) that > FREE=CLOSE,SPIN=UNALLOC on the DD will get the records over to SMTP on > EXECIO (FINIS; but that (b.) at that point the DD "no longer exists" -- that > I will get an error if I try to open it again? (Recall the program is > "long-running" and needs to generate multiple e-mails "from time to time." > They need to go out more or less as created, not in a big batch later on.) > - Not a huge deal if so, I guess. I can use BPXWDYN to allocate my DD again > and again rather than JCL. Anyone have any better ideas? > > Thanks. Outside-the-above-box suggestions cheerfully considered. I'm pretty > much set on Rexx, e-mails, and "long-running with multiple e-mails from time > to time" but will consider other possibilities. > > Charles > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
