IBM 47AE - 410168 manual Electronic Report Distribution - solution

2. Electronic Report Distribution

Scenario - monthly sales reports are printed, manually separated and mailed to regional office managers

Customer would like to automatically distribute and send the relevant reports to specific managers

Electronic Report Distribution - solution

1. Use DDS keywords to insert Group tags in *AFPDS spooled file.

2. Original spooled file converted to multiple PDF files

3. User exit program converts department name to e-mail address.

4. Each PDF file sent to appropriate regional office as e-mail attachment

V5R1 uses SNDDST

V5R2 you can use SNDDST or any SMTP server.

(Other methods of segmenting and addressing the file will be discussed later.)

COMMON 410168 47AE Infoprint Server Denver.PRZ

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