Comments on: SNDPCF Problem on AS400

By: TomLiotta

TomLiotta — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 03:50:29 +0000

Rickmcd’s comment is worthwhile. Have you verified that anyone has even set up SMTP services on this client’s system?

SNDDST (and therefore SNDPCF) is not a SMTP function. It’s a SNA/DS function. When you get the “Send distribution completed successfully” message, all it means is that the SNA/DS process worked. But from there, a secondary process must provide the transfer over to SMTP. And then the SMTP services must do their work.

The transfer process must be running (with a correct configuration), and SMTP must be running (with a correct configuration). The SNDPCF command can work perfectly; but it won’t do any good if the rest of the system isn’t paying attention to it. Personally, I wouldn’t use SNDPCF if the intended result was outbound SMTP. I’d use SMTP directly and skip all the intermediate stuff.

Tom

By: dab777

dab777 — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:52:59 +0000

Yes, I am aware that this is a third party product and that all users that use this command need to have a directory entry. I have a directory entry. I also manually ran each element in the command. I am failing on the SNDDST command although I am not receiving an error. I ftp files to and from the iseries but can’t seem to get the file to email. Here is my snddst command that was executed. I am guessing I am missing something on the system set up.SNDDST TYPE(*DOC) TOINTNET((dbussey777@aol.com)) DSTD(TEST) MSG(‘cpni file’) DOC(A_CPNI.CSV) FLR(TEMP)
Send distribution completed successfully.Thanks for any and all help!

By: TomLiotta

TomLiotta — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 20:17:45 +0000

The SNDPCF function isn’t a system function. It’s something written by a programmer somewhere in the world and made available “for free and as-is”. You use it at your own risk, and you support it your self. Any problems are up to you to fix.

The most difficult part of it is that it relies on the system’s SNDDST command. That means that all of the required infrastructure must be configured and working for each user of SNDPCF. It can work fine for one user, and it might not work at all for someone else.

You have to do the testing for SNDDST for each user. If a user can’t use SNDDST, then that user can’t run SNDPCF.

Tom