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Hi All,

I had an requirement to mail the contents of file whose record length is of 120 characters. I need to have all the 120 characters in my mail.

To the best of my knowledge, I knew that only first 80 characters in a file can be mailed using JCL.

Is there a way to get this done. Please post in your suggestions.

Thanks in advance..

Thanks
Raj

rajas.abcdefg wrote:To the best of my knowledge, I knew that only first 80 characters in a file can be mailed using JCL.

That's not true. You need to research the internet specifications for the SMTP protocol. The limit is 1024 characters per line.

I got the answer.
Now it is working fine. Thanks a ton.

But I had a problem in that.

In the output data set that I need to mail has valid data in the following format.
1. First 10 lines had valid data from column 6:20
2. After 5 lines had valid data from column 80:120, between lines had non required data which needs to be ignore. the data in this row needs to be splitted from col:95-120 into next line, as the mail needs to have the data in next line.
3.Once again some 10 lines needs to be ignored.

Could this is acheiveable. If so plz share ur idea

Hello,

Reformat the data before mailing it. . .

can I skip few lines in between ..will this be possible..

Hi,
If you have any field (like rec type) to identify the line groups, you can use a sort to create your file to be mailed. Else write a pgm.
Anyway, you need to extract and build the file first

Thanks,
BChat

Hello,

can I skip few lines in between ..will this be possible..

Certainly. . . You are in control of the process. All that remains is to decide how you want to implement. . .

Hi Dick
Thanks a lot for the response

Can I have some sample JCL.Assuming the above mentioned conditions


Thanks
Raj

Hi,

Will it be possible to know whether a production job is under execution or is it completed or failed its execution by using a JCL, if it is still undr exceution then it has to mail the requestor saying it is under execution.

Hello,

No. JCL really cannot do anything. . . All JCL does is execute programs - one way or another.

What you want to do is not a subject for beginners/students. Many quite qualified people would not be able to automate this quickly.

One way to do what you want is to write some rexx code, invoke sdsf, and determine if the named job is in the system or not. If it is in the system, is it running, is it completed (successful or failed), etc. What to do if there are multiples of the named job (lots of jobs run several times a day/hour).