Re: QtmmSendMail - broke now we are on V5R3... -- MIDRANGE-L

We have a program (JUST LIKE THE MMAIL STUFF) that inputs 3 parms (file
path/file name, From email address, to email address (with a 0,1,2
prefixed for distribution type).

I am now getting CPF3C17 (error occurred with input data parm).....

QtmmSendMail is the most maddening, frustrating API I've ever workedwith. The biggest problem with it is that it doesn't report useful errormessages, and your situation is a perfect example.

"Error occurred with an input parameter". That's REAL helpful! :) Whaterror occurred? Which parameter did it occur on? It's just not helpful.It leads you to spend a lot of time in trial-and-error trying to figureout what's wrong.

The manual gave 3 things to check:
1) file placement.   It hasn't changed. It is.../MMAIL/TEMP/GEMTEST.TXT
2)Authority...   *public *RWX X X X X
3) mime file has "end-of-header" statement    What is this???

The end of header statement is the blank line in between the headers andthe body of the message. (You have that in the sample you posted here.)


Some other things you might try:

a) Make sure the e-mail addresses (both in the MIME file *AND* the onespassed as parms to the API) have the blanks trimmed from them. I recentlywas getting the same error you are, and it was solved when I trimmed theblanks.

b) Make sure that everything is in the correct CCSID. The MIME fileshould be in CCSID 367 (which is a particular variant of ASCII) and thee-mail addresses passed as parms should be in CCSID 500 which is aparticular variant of EBCDIC. (Why it doesn't just assume that these arein the job's CCSID and translate them if it needs them translated isbeyond me. It must just like creating additional work for me.)

Whenever I use this API, I feel like I'm working with code produced by akid fresh out of college. Or maybe high school. He's never written aprogram before, so doesn't understand the importance of doing thingscorrectly.