Setting Up Email and Email Notification › Overview

Overview

The reports that CA Deliver distributes for viewing to one or more recipients using CA View (mainframe product) or the CA Output Management (OM) Web Viewer (distributed product) can also be distributed by email with email notification. This feature uses the CA Spool Email Print Driver to deliver and track email sent by CA Deliver.

Note:

• If this feature is not installed, you cannot use the CA Deliver email facility.
• For more information about the CA Spool Email Print Driver, see the TCP/IP PrinterDirect, Email PrintDriver section in the CA Spool Customization Guide.

You can now define an email address and a Web Viewer server for each report recipient. CA Deliver can be set up so that when a report is processed, email messages are sent using CA Spool to:

• Notify the recipients that the report is now available for viewing
• Send the report data or an HTLM link to one or more recipients.

  Sending only the HTML link allows the users to select and view the report in CA OM Web Viewer .

The distribution grouping feature in CA Deliver currently allows several recipients to share a printed report copy. Email messaging uses this grouping indicator so that you can send one email to several email recipients.

This list summarizes the process to update CA Deliver for email and email notification:

1. Update the email parameters in RMOPARMS.
2. Define the email templates to new or existing banner pages.
3. Run RMODBASE to load the new banner pages.
4. Update the DISTID definitions with email distribution data.
5. Validate the address (optional).
6. Change the Report Distribution OUTPUT field to E to send the email for specific DISTIDs. This indicates the DISTID is requesting EMAIL rather than a printed copy.

These steps are described in detail in the following sections.

Note:

• CA Deliver does not directly archive Xerox and ACIF reports to CA View. These reports require further processing which is performed by the FSS collectors. In these cases the email can still be sent, but the HTML link cannot be included. In addition, reports must be archived directly to CA View to create the HTML link to the report in Web Viewer.
• When setting up the email printer drivers in CA Spool, the CA Spool administrator must use XFEROPT=2 to prevent emails from being combined