Auto email report from within RPG pgm

["Warren Schultz" <WSchultz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you have FastFax software loaded onto your system, there is another
way to accomplish this.  Here is what I did:
*       Changed the calling CL to have:  OVRPRTF    FILE(QPRINT)
OUTQ(FASTFAX/FFXOTQAPI)
*       Since we still wanted hard copy to print, I created a 2nd splf
(in this case QPRINT) with output similar to hard copy splf, but with
special characters in the "header" area, as shown here

OQPRINT    E            HDG2           2 01                        
O                                                           4 '*DSE'

O                                                         10 '*EM'

O                               CEEMAL             60

O                                                         70 '*FC'

O                               BCARNA                   105

O                                                        125 '*RFLoad
Assignment 

If you have FastFax, you can check your user manual and get more
information.  In this example, field CEEMAL is a 50 character fld used
to store email address, and BCARNA represents a 30A recipient name.  You
will need the "*DSE" and "*EM" codes.  The "*FC" code indicates the name
of the recipient, The "*RF" is the special character used  to indicate
the email subject. None of the special codes (with asterisk in 1st
position) will print on the actual document.  The sender of the email
(pgm user) I think does need to be set up in FastFax as a user.  The
report automatically gets converted into a PDF and sent.

No doubt there are other software vendors with some elegant solutions.

Warren S. Schultz
Sr. Programmer Analyst
American Foods Group
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