Can Deliver send emails and email notification?

Products

• Deliver
• View

Issue/Introduction

Deliver can be set up to distribute by email with email notification.

This feature uses the Broadcom Spool Email Print Driver to deliver and track email sent by Deliver.

If this feature is not installed, you cannot use the Deliver email facility.  

This document gives an overview of the email setup procedure.

Environment

Release: 12.1-Deliver-Output Management-Interface for Native TSO

Resolution

You can define an email address and a Web Viewer server for each report recipient.  Deliver can be set up so that when a report is processed, email messages will be sent using Spool to do the following:

·         Notify the recipients that the report is now available for viewing

·         Send the report data or an HTLM link to one or more recipients

·         Sending just the HTML link allows the users to select and view the report in Output Management (OM) Web Viewer.

The distribution grouping feature in Deliver currently allows several recipients to share a printed report copy. Email messaging uses this grouping indicator so that you can send one email to several email recipients.

The following list summarizes the process to update Deliver for email and email notification:

  1.    Update the email parameters in RMOPARMS.

  2.    Define the email templates to new or existing banner pages.

  3.    Run RMODBASE to load the new banner pages.

  4.    Update the DISTID definitions with email distribution data.

  5.    Validate the address (optional).

  6.    Change the Report Distribution OUTPUT field to E to send the email for specific DISTIDs.  This indicates the DISTID is requesting EMAIL rather than a printed copy.