Re: E-mailing Queries

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 09:41 -0500, John Candidi wrote:
> We have a large number of month-end reports that are produced by queries
> which are printed and distributed each month. Is there a way to have these
> e-mailed directly to the recipients without purchasing any additional
> software? If software is necessary, is there anything that will do the trick
> cheaply? Please be as detailed as time allows 
> 
There are lots of ways to do this.  There is an open source SNDEMAIL
command, check the archives for the exact location, I can't remember it
offhand.

Consider sending a link to the report, rather than the report itself,
especially if the report and number of recipients is large.  There are
some nice advantages to sending links, mainly the mail server has less
chance of being overloaded, and the web logs will show which reports are
actually being looked at, and which are not.  

Store the reports on the IFS, and then make the report accessible via
your iSeries web server.  Converting SCS spooled files to IFS files
could be as simple as a CPYSPLF command, followed by a CPY command.

Access control to the report files could be handled by Apache basic
authentication, or by an RPG/CGI program of your own devising.

Barebones, indeed, but effective, simple, and cheap.

Regards,
Rich