Email the contents of a Deliver bundle, in its entirety, to a specific DISTID using OM Spool
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Issue/Introduction
We would like to email the contents of an entire Deliver bundle to a specific DISTID via OM Spool.
We have 8 different reports defined to a Deliver bundle that all go to the same email recipient. Currently, when using OUT=E at the DISTID level, the reports are NOT bundled and the recipient receives 8 individual emails. The user wants one email that includes all 8 reports. How can this be accomplished?
Environment
Deliver, Spool, z/OS
Cause
Using the OUT=E setting at the DISTID level causes each reports not to be bundled, resulting in each report being emailed individually.
Resolution
- Deliver currently does not provide an OUT=E parameter for emailing the contents of an entire bundle in a single email.
- To address this limitation, the idea would be to specify OUT=Y for the desired DISTID, so that Deliver writes the bundle out to JES as a single dataset that matches OM Spools post-spool processing criteria. Then have OM Spool pick it up and email the entire Deliver output bundle, in a single email, to the desired recipient.
- An outline of the instructions for how to configure Deliver and have OM Spool email the contents of an entire Deliver bundle in a single email follows:
1. Create a Deliver EFORMAT banner member that is specific to emailing to your desired DISTID. Then run RMODBASE BLOAD to add the Bundle EFORMAT to the Deliver database.
Example:
your.deliver.CVDED133(BNDLMAIL)
***************************** Top of Data ********
/EMAIL PARMS
CLASS=B <----- modify to meet Spool node requirement
DEST=DLVEMAIL <----- modify to meet Spool node requirement
FORMS=
WRITER=
SENDRPT=YES
MAILTO=&yourdistid@email.address <----- modify
ADDRESS='SUBJECT=REPORT &ARCHID (&DESC) ATTACHED'
****** **************************** Bottom of Data ******
2. Create a Deliver BUNDLE DEFINITION to be used for bundling the 8 reports that will get emailed to yourdistid.
On this Bundles Definition Screen, specify the EFORMAT from above in the first "Banner" position, and a "BDist" of yourdistid:
Attributes:
Banner ===> ( BNDLMAIL , , )
BDist ===> yourdistid
3. Add/Modify the Deliver - Distribution Data for Distid: yourdistid to include/mimic the values coded in the EFORMAT member created in Step 1:
Example:
Destination:
Dest ===> DLVEMAIL CA Connect Node ===> NO
Writer ===>
Class ===> B
Email ===> yourdistid@email.address
EFormat ===> BNDLMAIL
WebSvr ===> 1
4. At the REPORT/DISTID DEFINITION level of the 8 reports in the bundle, access option "D - Distribution specifications" and set the OUT flag for DISTID yourdistid to a 'Y' for all 8 reports.
Example:
Distribution Specifications:
Sel Grp Distribution ID Out
yourdistid Y
5. Run the 8 jobs that produce the reports and let them get bundled together in Deliver. When Deliver prints the bundle, it will be written out to the JES queue as a single dataset containing all 8 reports. Once in JES, have OM Spool process the dataset and email the contents of the entire bundle.
Additional Information
You can configure OM Spool for POST-SPOOL processing of this dataset. For more information on how to configure OM Spool to post-spool process this data, see the Output Management Spool™ for z/OS 14.0 documentation regarding parameters (XFERCLAS and XFEROPT):
XFERCLAS=B - Tells SPOOL SAPI what POST-SPOOL CLASS to process.
XFEROPT=B - Tells SPOOL SAPI to match XFERCLAS and Spool NODE (Node DLVEMAIL in this article), for POST-SPOOL processing.
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