Electronic report distribution, Electronic report distribution - solution – IBM 47AE - 410168 User Manual

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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

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.

Electronic Report Distribution - solution

(Other methods of segmenting and addressing

the file will be discussed later.)

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