topic Re: using mainframe sas to send smtp email to outlook results in garbage in the body in SAS Programming

using mainframe sas to send smtp email to outlook results in garbage in the body

mbieganski — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 19:39:26 GMT

Community, using sas v9.4 on the mainframe just trying to get a simple proof of concept batch job to work with limited results.

I've seen the myriad examples and I'm sure I'm doing something dopey but am at wits end.

This jcl:

//IDS EXEC SAS,OPTIONS='CPUID,NOTES'
//SAS.SASLOG DD SYSOUT=*
//SAS.SASLIST DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN DD *
OPTIONS EMAILSYS = SMTP;
OPTIONS EMAILHOST = XXXXXX.YADA.COM;
FILENAME MYEMAIL EMAIL
TO="MYUSERID.XXX.COM"
SUBJECT="CODER'S CORNER"
TYPE="TEXT/PLAIN";
DATA _NULL_;
FILE MYEMAIL;
PUT "PLEASE ATTENDED CODER'S CORNER";
RUN;
FILENAME MYEMAIL CLEAR;

Sends the email to my Microsoft Outlook mailbox, Subject looks just fine, but the one line

I have in the body "PLEASE ATTENDED CODERS CORNER" comes across in the body of the email as

WSEAbE@AccEUDED@CVDEY}b@CVYUEY

What is causing the put statement to get garbled??

thanks,

Re: using mainframe sas to send smtp email to outlook results in garbage in the body

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:11:36 GMT

Any standard text on a mainframe is created using the EBCDIC code.

Try something like

length charvar $50;
charvar = "Please attend coder's corner";
put charvar $ascii50.;

to convert the text to ASCII.

Re: using mainframe sas to send smtp email to outlook results in garbage in the body

mbieganski — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:23:05 GMT

worked like a charm!! Thanks a million Kurt!

Best,