Sending email attachments from MVS COBOL

[weberm]

I have a JCL set up to email reports by merging files containing the headers and body (report) and copying it to a file with destination TCPSMTP. This creates an email which contains the report, but I would like to be able to send the data file as an email attachment. Has anyone else attempted this?

 

[papadba]

It may help if you post the jcl from the step that writes to your local SMTP and the content of the e-mail file.

If you are writing to SMTP directly, you will need additional control statements. . . i.e.:

MIME-VERSION: 1.0 
CONTENT-TYPE: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="SIMPLE BOUNDARY" 
--SIMPLE BOUNDARY 
CONTENT-TYPE: TEXT/PLAIN 
CONTENT-DISPOSITION: ATTACHMENT; FILENAME=EMAILATT.TXT

Does your system have XMITIP installed (it is free)?

 

[weberm]

Here is the JCL used to send the email:

//STEP02   EXEC PGM=IEBGENER                        
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*                              
//SYSOUT   DD SYSOUT=*                              
//SYSUT2   DD SYSOUT=(A,TCPSMTP)                    
//SYSIN    DD DUMMY                                 
//SYSUT1   DD DSN=RDR.PSEMAIL.RDR60.HEADER,DISP=SHR 
//         DD DSN=RDR.RDR60.DOWNLOAD,DISP=SHR       
/*

This is what's in RDR.PSEMAIL.RDR60.HEADER (RDR.RDR60.DOWNLOAD is the file I wish to send):

HELO SAM                                                        
MAIL FROM:<weberm@state.fl.us>                                
RCPT TO:  <weberm@state.fl.us>                                
RCPT TO:  <francism@state.fl.us>                         
DATA                                                            
FROM: RCP_EMAIL                                                 
TO:   <francism@state.fl.us>,<weberm@state.fl.us>      
SUBJECT: *TEST* RCP Nightly Batch RDR60 file *TEST*

As far as I know, we do not have XMITIP installed. I once did something similar with a UNIX shell script that I recall required using UUENCODE.