topic Re: SAS Email from mainframe with body and a PDS as an attachment in SAS Programming

SAS Email from mainframe with body and a PDS as an attachment

Phil20 — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 15:56:11 GMT

Hi there

I need help on building a SAS job to send an email from mainframe. The email has 2-3 lines of content and an attachment. The attachment is a PDS file to attach as a text file. I was able to send mail without attachment. but the attachment part not working for me.

//xxxxxxx JOB MSGCLASS=J,MSGLEVEL=1,NOTIFY=&SYSUID
//SAS9 EXEC SAS
FILENAME MAILBOX EMAIL;
DATA _NULL_;
FILE MAILBOX TO=('xxxxxxx@xxxxx.com')

SUBJECT='MONTHLY FILE';
PUT "Hello xxxx,";
PUT " ";
PUT "This is to inform you that xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.";
PUT "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.";
PUT " ";
PUT "Best regards,";
PUT "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
RUN;
//*

Re: SAS Email from mainframe with body and a PDS as an attachment

s_lassen — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:28:14 GMT

I think the normal style is to put the email options in the FILENAME statement, rather than in the FILE statement, e.g.:

//xxxxxxx JOB MSGCLASS=J,MSGLEVEL=1,NOTIFY=&SYSUID
//SAS9 EXEC SAS
FILENAME MAILBOX EMAIL TO=('xxxxxxx@xxxxx.com') SUBJECT='MONTHLY FILE' attach="user.misc.pds(member)";
DATA _NULL_;
FILE MAILBOX;
PUT "Hello xxxx,";
PUT " ";
PUT "This is to inform you that xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.";
PUT "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.";
PUT " ";
PUT "Best regards,";
PUT "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
RUN;
//*

Re: SAS Email from mainframe with body and a PDS as an attachment

Phil20 — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:21:50 GMT

Thank you so much Lasen

It worked exactly as I expected. you made my day.

Re: SAS Email from mainframe with body and a PDS as an attachment

s_lassen — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 07:34:31 GMT

Then I think you should mark my suggestion as a solution 🙂

Re: SAS Email from mainframe with body and a PDS as an attachment

Phil20 — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 13:56:15 GMT

how do i do that?. I am new to this blog );