Re: How can I retrieve user's email address

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/10/2009, at 4:29 AM, smorrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I've got  CL program that needs to email a report to a user. The  
> user's
> email address is stored in the IBM system directory, visible by using
> WRKDIRE. How can I retrieve this email address, so I don't need to  
> hard
> code the email address?

The correct way to retrieve this information is via the QOKSHCD API.

I see suggestions for DSPDIRE to outfile and reading QATMSMPTA  
directly. As Chuck pointed out reading an undocumented internal IBM  
file directly is risky. DSPDIRE will not always show the SMPT  
information. I don't recall the details but it has something to do  
with whether the SMPT names have been converted (via CVTNAMSMTP) to  
System Directory names. If not they won't appear in DSPDIRE. There are  
caveats on simply running CVTNAMSMTP---it's not reversible.

I think if you can see them with WRKNAMSMTP then DSPDIRE will not put  
them in the outfile.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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