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chhabraravneet

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PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2012 12:07 am
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Hi,
Trying to execute the below code, but i am not getting any attachment. Instead, what i am trying to attach is coming in email body itself.
Plese help:

//PWSTEP03 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER
//SYSIN DD DUMMY
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSUT2 DD SYSOUT=(B,SMTPT)
//SYSUT1 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=USSERID.TEST.EMAIL1
// DD DISP=SHR,DSN=USERID.TEST.EMAIL
//
/*

USSERID.TEST.EMAIL1 consists of:

HELO JOBTRAC
MAIL FROM:<XYZ@XYZ.COM>
RCPT TO :XYZ@XYZ.COM
DATA
FROM: XYZ@XYZ.COM
TO: XYZ@XYZ.COM
SUBJECT: JOB COMPLETED (SEE ATTACHMENT)
MIME-VERSION: 1.0
CONTENT-TYPE: TEXT/PLAIN
CONTENT-DISPOSITION: ATTACHMENT; FILENAME="XYZZ.TXT"


USERID.TEST.EMAIL consits of the attachment.

Both the files have same DCB parametres.

thanks for the help.
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dbzTHEdinosauer

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PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2012 12:37 am
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start with the links provided in this thread

if that does not answer your question, you can always search the jcl forum with a search key of: email + attachement
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dick scherrer

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PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2012 2:51 am
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Hello,

You have included the "attachment" as part of the actual e-mail text. . .
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chhabraravneet

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PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2012 6:36 pm
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Thanks Dick.

Then how to include the attachment..i dont want to include it in email text..

Regards,
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PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2012 6:50 pm
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dbzTHEdinosauer wrote:
start with the links provided in this thread

if that does not answer your question, you can always search the jcl forum with a search key of: email + attachement


i re-quote my earlier comment, since you seem to have missed it,
since i directly do not provide the control cards you need,
and you obviously have to dig for the answer yourself.

or, do you feel that we should just waste space repeating
what has be posted in other forums
and/or
what the manual/documentation provides?

am i missing something here?
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chhabraravneet

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PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2012 6:59 pm
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Hi Dick Brenholtz ,

Obviously you guys should not waste time in repeating the stuff and positng it again and again.

But i read your column and the chains that you provided. I did everything included the simple boundaries...changed my MIME command..but its not working. Moreover the threads that you provided too are not enough..as in that thread ultimately people are stuck with the same thing (not able to attach in emai) or they have been told to contact the email support group of their site.

As of now im stuck with this...and studing MIME...and trying to write/find the exact jcl code...
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Naish

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PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2012 7:23 pm
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Tried from the suggested link. This works.

Code:
//STEP010  EXEC PGM=IEBGENER
//SYSIN    DD DUMMY
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSUT2   DD SYSOUT=B,DEST=SMTP
//SYSUT1   DD *
HELO JESNDIXA
MAIL FROM:<from-mail-id>
RCPT TO:<to-mail-id>
DATA
FROM: MAINFRAME
TO: to-mail-id
SUBJECT: TEST ATTACHMENT
MIME-VERSION: 1.0
CONTENT-TYPE: TEXT/PLAIN
CONTENT-DISPOSITION: ATTACHMENT; FILENAME=FILE.TXT
//         DD DISP=SHR,DSN=user-id.TEST.JCL(EMAILATT)
//         DD DISP=OLD,DSN=user-id.TEST.JCL(EMAILAT)
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Anuj Dhawan

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PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2012 7:41 pm
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ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=55814&highlight=email
ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=57288&highlight=email
ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=31751&highlight=email
ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=50277&highlight=email
ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=50150&highlight=email
ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=48292&highlight=email
ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=48602&highlight=email
ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=47548&highlight=email
ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=47397&highlight=email
ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=47371&highlight=email
ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=45383&highlight=email
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chhabraravneet

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PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2012 8:55 pm
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Thanks a lot guys...for all your inputs...

i got it and it worked...

the last issue that i was facing was..my attachment file was coming from a sysprint..so if was always VBA and getting its own record length..
so i changed my control card to the same parametres as that of the attachment file that i was creating from the sysprint..ie kept all as VBA, same record lenght and same block size..and it worked..

thank you once again....
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PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2012 10:18 pm
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You're welcome - and thank you for the followup explaining your solution icon_smile.gif

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David Robinson

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:46 pm
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I'm seem to be getting an issue not covered off in any of the other posts. I can send a text e-mail fine, an e-mail with an attachment fine, and an e-mail with both...up to a point.

What happens when I try and send text in the e-mail plus an attachment is that I lose all the line breaks in the body text so the resultant e-mail is just one line.

Any ideas? Are any special control characters required? The MIME docs that I have read talk about CRLF to start a new line which is x'0D0A' in ASCII but I don't know what would be required on the mainframe.
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David Robinson

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:11 pm
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Further reading tells me that x'0A' in ASCII maps to x'25' in EBCDIC, so that implies that x'0D25' should do the trick, but it's still no good.

I've tried every combination of x'0A', x'0D' and x'25' that I can think of, without any success.

Any suggestions?
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Robert Sample

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:36 pm
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From RFC 2821:
Quote:
2.3.7 Lines

SMTP commands and, unless altered by a service extension, message
data, are transmitted in "lines". Lines consist of zero or more data
characters terminated by the sequence ASCII character "CR" (hex value
0D) followed immediately by ASCII character "LF" (hex value 0A).
This termination sequence is denoted as <CRLF> in this document.
Conforming implementations MUST NOT recognize or generate any other
character or character sequence as a line terminator. Limits MAY be
imposed on line lengths by servers (see section 4.5.3).

In addition, the appearance of "bare" "CR" or "LF" characters in text
(i.e., either without the other) has a long history of causing
problems in mail implementations and applications that use the mail
system as a tool. SMTP client implementations MUST NOT transmit
these characters except when they are intended as line terminators
and then MUST, as indicated above, transmit them only as a <CRLF>
sequence.
In other words, unless your mail client supports use of some specific character sequence to work as a line termination sequence, you cannot specify line terminators in an email. I haven't researched what the "service extension" could be -- and even if that has an answer to your problem, you'd have to worry about every link in the message handling that service extension the same way.
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Anuj Dhawan

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:39 pm
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David - have you had a chance to look at this thread: ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=50277&highlight=email

Also, suggest you please show us the JCL you've used. SMTP with MIME gets very picky about syntax at times.
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David Robinson

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 7:16 pm
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I have managed to resolve this now, and it was nothing to do with having a <CRLF> string. As others have said, MIME is very sensitive to positions, blank lines, etc., and although my original job was identical to an example posted here, for some reason it didn't work.

I've just tried various other examples on a trial and error basis and found one that worked fine (thanks to Robert's JCL on the link that Anuj provided).

Many thanks to everyone for your help and suggestions.
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Anuj Dhawan

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 7:50 pm
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Thanks for the feedback. Yes, Robert is one of the excellent contributors on this board.
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