Many OfficeVision/MVS (OV/MVS) customers have mail-enabled line-of-business (LOB) applications that use the underlying e-mail network to distribute information such as reports and status notifications from batch, TSO and/or CICS functions to end-users. OV/MVS traditionally uses a SNADS-based e-mail network, either IBM's DISOSS or Icom Solutions' OfficePath/SNADS.

Today even as OV/MVS customers migrate their e-mail users to LAN-based systems such as Lotus Notes/Domino and Microsoft Exchange their LOB applications continue to run on z/OS and OS/390. However, once all of their OV/MVS users have been migrated, the cost of maintaining a SNADS network just for this purpose becomes a significant cost issue.

While alternate solutions like file-transfer may at first seem attractive, they create new challenges of their own. For example, customers who use Icom Solutions' OfficePath/Batch-TSO and/or OfficePath/CICS (or their RAPID equivalents¹) will need to identify all e-mail enabled LOB applications, then change them to use FTP instead of SNADS. Further, FTP only transfers the files to a LAN. The files still need to be addressed and distributed via traditional e-mail.

OfficePath/SMTP-Send (OP/SS) solves these problems by replacing your SNADS e-mail network with industry-standard SMTP. Because it is designed to work with OfficePath or RAPID, no changes are required to your existing mail-enabled LOB applications. Simply replace OfficePath/SNADS or RAPID/Base with OP/SS and map SNADS addresses to SMTP mail addresses. OP/SS will establish a TCP/IP session with your existing SMTP mail network and send it all messages that used to go via SNADS.

   
   

Highlights

• replaces the SNADS Send services of DISOSS and OfficePath/SNADS
• no changes required to existing e-mail enabled LOB applications
• direct connection to all SMTP-compliant e-mail systems including Lotus Notes/Domino and Microsoft Exchange via TCP/IP
• send to users, applications, pagers, telephones and more...
• replaces outbound functionality of IBM's SMTP Server reading SMTP formatted input directly from the JES Spool, but faster
• converts reports into PDF or RTF attachments
• compresses attachments using built-in ZIP compression
• table-based or LDAP SNADS to SMTP address mapping and distribution list lookup
• validate addresses and look up distribution lists in external directories using LDAP
  • control who can send e-mail and to whom
• NLS enabled for easy translation into languages other than English
• send rich-text forms and structured correspondence using the HTML Mail Merge feature
• easily send an end-of-job e-mail notification with a customizable summary of completion status for each step (Batch only)
• log each outgoing email message to SMF, CICS journal or sequential dataset.
• simple to install, configure and administer

• preserves your investment in OfficePath/Batch, TSO, CICS and RAPID/Batch, TSO, CICS
• replaces SNADS mail infrastructure with industry-standard SMTP
• reduces overall cost of MVS-to-LAN e-mail connectivity through lower software licensing fees and administrative costs
• allows users to expand beyond traditional SNADS "8 by 8" addressing
• easy to install and use

• any IBM-supported release of z/OS or OS/390; requires at least one of:
  • OfficePath/Batch-TSO
  • OfficePath/CICS
  • RAPID/Batch-TSO
  • RAPID/CICS

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