RE: Have AS/400 act on an email message

Unfortunately, the actual MRP submission has always been an "IT" function.
You're right, it would put the control (and responsibility) where it belongs
- to the people that need to do the job.

The basic problem I'm facing is that we're using Albert York's TNAPI to do
the MRP submission. The TNAPI isn't a problem in and of itself - it's a
great tool - but we must expose the user id and password used. The submit
performs outq, spooled file, jobq, and job attribute manipulation, which our
users don't have. There are some things I can do, such as making the submit
adopt authority, and hiding the TNAPI userid and password.

Thanks for the insight.

--  
Loyd Goodbar
Programmer/analyst
BorgWarner Incorporated
ETS/Water Valley
662-473-5713
lgoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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Subject: Re: Have AS/400 act on an email message


Why don't the planners start the MRP submission?  In effect, if it can be 
done automatically based on an email they send, then figure out a way to 
let them start it without email.  After all, the email gives them the 
control anyway.

Using email sounds too much like a script kiddies interface to your 
backend system.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




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How would I get the AS/400 to act on an email message? For example, the
mailman mailing list software lets you put commands in a message body, and 
a
program acts on the message when received.

I get an email from our material planners every Friday for the parameters
for our weekly MRP submission. Now the MRP submission is mostly automated,
once I have these parameters. What I would like is for the planner to send
an email to the AS/400, and have a program grab the email body, verify the
MRP parameters (done), and run the MRP submission program.

I know I must set up POP3 on the 400, but where/how do I hook to run 
custom
programs when emails are received? Any pointers to doco welcome.

Thanks,
Loyd

-- 
Loyd Goodbar
Programmer/analyst
BorgWarner Incorporated
ETS/Water Valley
662-473-5713
lgoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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