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

[mbieganski]

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,

[Kurt_Bremser · Accepted solution]

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.

[mbieganski]

worked like a charm!!   Thanks a million Kurt!

Best,