Re: How can I retrieve user's email address

On 03/10/2009, at 4:29 AM, smorrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I've got CL program that needs to email a report to a user. The user's
email address is stored in the IBM system directory, visible by using
WRKDIRE. How can I retrieve this email address, so I don't need to hard
code the email address?

The correct way to retrieve this information is via the QOKSHCD API.

I see suggestions for DSPDIRE to outfile and reading QATMSMPTA directly. As Chuck pointed out reading an undocumented internal IBM file directly is risky. DSPDIRE will not always show the SMPT information. I don't recall the details but it has something to do with whether the SMPT names have been converted (via CVTNAMSMTP) to System Directory names. If not they won't appear in DSPDIRE. There are caveats on simply running CVTNAMSMTP---it's not reversible.

I think if you can see them with WRKNAMSMTP then DSPDIRE will not put them in the outfile.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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