XMITMAIL and XMITCICS

What XMITMAIL and XMITCICS are

Assuming you have SMTP configured on your OS/390 system, a CALL to XMITMAIL, or an EXEC CICS LINK to XMITCICS, will send a simple plain-text e-mail.

• XMITMAIL and XMITCICS are a "lite" complement to Lionel Dyck's XMITIP exec.
• XMITMAIL is for use in batch.
• XMITMAIL is designed for situations where you have to send a large number of simple e-mails from a single job step. It is awkward to use XMITIP for this.
• XMITMAIL can be CALLed from any LE-compliant HLL and has also been used from NATURAL.
  
• XMITCICS is designed for use under CICS - (where XMITIP cannot be used).
• XMITCICS can be EXEC CICS LINKed from any CICS program
• XMITMAIL and XMITCICS are written in COBOL and distributed as source code
• XMITMAIL and XMITCICS are fast, about 10 times as fast as XMITIP.

What XMITMAIL and XMITCICS are NOT

• XMITMAIL and XMITCICS are not a replacement for XMITIP
• XMITMAIL and XMITCICS are not able to send attachments, unless you do all the mail formatting in the calling program.

How to get XMITMAIL and XMITCICS

1. click here to download in zipped TSO XMIT format
2. As described in this link on PlanetMVS, you must
   1. unzip the xmitmail.zip file to xmitmail.xmit
   2. FTP it BINARY to a preallocated FB-80 sequential file on your mainframe
       
      
   3. Make sure you have PROFILE PREFIX(yourhlq) set and TSO RECEIVE it into a PDS,
       
      RECEIVE INDATASET('YOUR.FB80.DATASET')
       
      
      (hit enter to msg INMR906I)
      (IEBCOPY guff comes up)
      ("INMR000I restore successful to dataset yourhlq.XMITMAIL.COBOL")
       
      
   4. and then follow the instructions in the $$README member