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Subprogram NWTOSMTP: NWR SMTP CICS Mail Facility

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This program is a COMMAREA-driven general-purpose  lightweight email producer. It takes the information in the COMMAREA and  produces a batch job that invokes SMTP to process the email.

Limitations
Please remember what the “S”  in SMTP stands for: Simple. This facility is not an industrial strength  mail system. SMTP mail on z/OS can easily be overwhelmed. If you have the need  to send thousands of mail messages, please contact NWRDC early in the design  stages so we can pursue the acquisition of a facility adequate to your needs.

This process results in a batch job being submitted. That job will either run  under the logon-id contained in NWTOSMTP-UID or allowed to default to the  logon-id associated with the CICS task. In either case, the logon-id used must  be specifically registered with SMTP. Contact NWRDC customer support for help in this matter.

Add the COPY NWSMTPCA  statement (note that it contains a “01” level structure) to your CICS program to  retrieve the following:

77  NWTOSMTP-ARRAY-MAX      PIC S9(9) COMP VALUE  200.
01  NWTOSMTP-COMMAREA.
    05  NWTOSMTP-TAG        PIC  X(24)  VALUE 'NWTOSMTP V001 COMMAREA'.
    05  NWTOSMTP-TO-ADDRESS PIC X(76).
    05  NWTOSMTP-SUBJECT    PIC X(60).
    05  NWTOSMTP-UID        PIC X(08).
    05  NWTOSMTP-PWD        PIC  X(08).
    05  NWTOSMTP-LINES      PIC S9(9) COMP.
    05  NWTOSMTP-ARRAY      PIC X(80) OCCURS  200.
    05  NWTOSMTP-ETAG       PIC X(24)   VALUE 'NWTOSMTP  COMMAREA END'.

All items except NWTOSMTP-UID AND NWTOSMTP-PWD are  required. If these two fields are omitted, the subsequent job will run under the  logon-ID of the terminal operator. If they are filled out (both must be, if  either one is specified) they will used to construct the batch job.

You  move the mail text to NWTOSMTP-ARRAY and set the number of lines in  NWTOSMTP-LINES. Note: Maximum lines is 200.

Example 

MOVE ‘STEVE_MENARD@nwrdc.fsu.edu’ TO   NWTOSMTP-TO-ADDRESS.
MOVE ‘YOU HAVE MAIL’ TO  NWTOSMTP-SUBJECT.
MOVE  +3             TO  NWTOSMTP-LINES.
MOVE ‘Bong’          TO   NWTOSMTP-ARRAY(1).
MOVE ‘Bong’          TO  NWTOSMTP-ARRAY(2).
MOVE ‘Bong’          TO  NWTOSMTP-ARRAY(3).
 
EXEC CICS LINK  
             PROGRAM(‘NWTOSMTP’)
            COMMAREA(NWTOSMTP-COMMAREA)
             RESP(RESP)
END-EXEC.