QTmmSendMail slow on 7.2 on first execute per job

We have the SNDEMAIL command. We noticed on 7.2 that it took well over a
minute the first time we used it in a session to send an email. The next
time it was fast again. We could sign off and back on and once again the
first time it was slow and after that it was fast.

Known issue with IBM.
Test PTF (not yet available to general public) is SI56247

Workaround:
WRKLNK '/QTCPTMM/QUEUE'
Do you have this directory? If not, then continue with work around. Do
NOT create it yourself. The following steps will create it (correctly).
ENDTCPSVR SERVER(*SMTP)
CHGSMTP <F4>
You probably have an email directory type of *SDD. Change this to *SMTP
temporarily.
STRTCPSVR SERVER(*SMTP)
WRKLNK '/QTCPTMM/QUEUE'
It may take a minute or two for this QUEUE directory to appear. And I
mean "minute" in the literal sense of the word.
Once it appears,
ENDTCPSVR SERVER(*SMTP)
CHGSMTPA DIRTYPE(*SDD)
STRTCPSVR SERVER(*SMTP)

I put on groups and cumes in early March. IBM allowed me to download this
test PTF and it still brought down 50+ ptf's.
No delayed PTF's but one did have these instructions:
Before apply/remove the PTF
ENDMSF
ENDTCPSVR (*SMTP *POP)

After apply/remove this PTF
STRMSF
STRTCPSVR (*SMTP *POP)

I did the workaround on one lpar, and the test ptf on another. Both were
equally effective. You just won't have the '/QTCPTMM/QUEUE' directory if
you do the PTF. Apparently it's no big loss. You didn't have it on 7.1.


Rob Berendt