Mechanism within CA Spool to “throttle” report throughput

Products

• Spool

Issue/Introduction

Is there any mechanism within CA Spool to “throttle” report throughput? There are raising a concern that the number of reports being generated within an hour may hit the max with Microsoft for sending to a mailbox.   

 

Environment

Release : 14.0

Resolution

Option W can be added to the TCPDRIV keyword to delay the sessions.

See the description from the documentation:

W
Delay next session request in the FSSNPRO= specified number of seconds.

For example:    

NODE EMAILPRT,EMAIL1,TRANSFRM=A2PDK,TCPDRIV=SMTPW,FSSNPRO=1

Reference to the TCPDRIV keyword in the documentation:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-mainframe-software/traditional-management/ca-spool/14-0/initialization-options/node-printer-parameters/tcpdriv.html