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leeroy2 · Beginner Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 5 Topics: 1

Hello,

I am abit of a novice when it comes to all technical mainframe stuff so please excuse the crudeness of my question.

I was wondering is the is a way to automate a tso task (maybe through REXX programming).

In the current project I print a report to HOLD from our mainframe then switch to TSO S;ST find the job and use XDC to create a dataset (userid.print) and send it to it then i use command 6 on the ISPF and using TRANFER RECIEVE I download the data to TXT format.

Each Time I do this I need to delete the dataset I have created via command 3.4 on ISPF main menu.

Is there anyway I can automate this task through a REXX macro as it maybe rolled out to the users in my area who are not technically minded ?

kolusu · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 7:51 am Post subject:

leeroy2,

1. Allocate a dataset (userid.print) to the sysprint/sysout , so that you don't have to go to sdsf and do xdc.

taltyman · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 7:57 am Post subject:

Can you add/modify a step to the job to email the output to the user(s)? If your shop has SMTP running and set up correctly (SMTP comes with TCPIP). Then you could send it as a txt attachment.

leeroy2 · Beginner Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 5 Topics: 1

Thanks for the info guys, your help is much appreciated.

A few things though:-

where and how do I enter this code ?

I have read about the email functionality, is it possible just to automatically save it to a file instead ?

Many thanks Very Happy

coolman · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 9:08 am Post subject:

Leeroy,
Just search for SMTP, you will find couple of hits. It has already been discussed before.

Cheers,
Coolman
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leeroy2 · Beginner Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 5 Topics: 1

After reading your responses again I think the route I need to go would be to create a new report and include the coding you have advised. I will also need to stop the from printing and allow it only to go to TSO.

As the report does not create a dataset and the coding uses userid.print the jobs will overwrite each other if more than one user sends them at one given time. Is there any way for it to use a unique dataset for each user ?

I will also use the email functionality so all the user will need to do is print the report from rumba and it will arrive by email from where they will detach it and run an excel macro to reformat it.

Is this all possible ?

Mike · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 10:25 pm Post subject:

Leeroy,
if the the user is submitting the job then you can use SYSUID (note the two periods after SYSUID).

e.g.

leeroy2 · Beginner Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 5 Topics: 1

Thanks for the info guys.

One last question, is it possible for the dataset that is unique for the user (&SYSUID..PRINT) to be automatically emailed to the user by SMTP ?

leeroy2 · Beginner Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 5 Topics: 1

Hello,

I have another problem unfortunately chaps

The print jobs the user submits via rumba do not enter TSO under the users ID but under one system ID for all users so the &SYSUID.PRINT dataset will not work.

Can you think of any way round this other than to re-configure the whole way our system is setup ?

dorkhead · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 9:13 am Post subject:

leroy,

maybe u can have a ftp step at the end that transmit the file to a destination
predefined by ur sysguys ?
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taltyman · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2003 3:09 pm Post subject:

Know this post has aged a bit but..... Do you have an internal website that the report could be ftp'd to? Then they could just point their browser to it.
similar but less desirable would be to ftp it to a shared network drive location.