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Use received outlook email as a trigger for PC processes

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jcchoy

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Feb 1, 2003
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Hello. I have a project to automate a system. The system has a MVS portion and a PC SAS portion. I don't have a FTP server on my pc and the problem is I want the MVS portion to trigger my pc SAS processes to run automatically at night. MVS can send a trigger file to my email inbox on outlook and I can apply rule on the MVS email id. I want to write a simple VB script in outlook to once receive the MVS email of successful, put out a little trigger file on a non-outlook folder so my FTP script can test it and get the MVS output file from MVS and begin my PC SAS processes.

This neat approach would avoid scheduling PC SAS processes base strictly on certain times at night or constantly having to test for exstence of MVS output to begin PC SAS processes.

Anyone has done this before and have same sample VB code even for me ?
 
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