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User Guide |
Communiqué lets you send email from your iSeries or AS/400. Unlike other iSeries email tools, it is both easy to use and packed with features and functionality. |
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Communiqué integrates with CoolSpools and Slipstream to activate the email options in those products and let you email their output as an attachment. |
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Communiqué lets you send email from your iSeries or AS/400. Unlike other iSeries email tools, it is both easy to use and packed with features and functionality.
With Communiqué you can:
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send email to Internet email users as well as email users on the same iSeries or another iSeries |
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send email messages in HTML format as well as simple text or alternate text/HTML formats |
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attach or embed text, HTML, image, video, audio or application binary files (for example, PDF files and Excel spreadsheets) |
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use a simple, familiar command interface or an API |
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create and manage named email address lists |
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send to multiple email addresses or to named email address lists |
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convert SNADS distribution lists to email address lists |
Communiqué also dovetails with ariadne’s other products, CoolSpools and Slipstream. Installing Communiqué will enable the email capabilities inherent in those products Once Communiqué is installed, using the CoolSpools EMAIL parameter will allow you to convert a spooled file to a stream file in PDF or a variety of other formats and send that stream file as an email attachment. Similarly, if Communiqué is installed, the Slipstream EMAIL parameter will enable you to convert a database file to an Excel spreadsheet or other stream file format and email that stream file as an attachment.
For further details, refer to the Communiqué User Guide below.
There are many PC packages which enable you to send email. There are also packages that let you to send email from your iSeries using a GUI. So why choose Communiqué?
Communiqué provides a means of sending email from an iSeries command. That may not be as pretty as a GUI, but it’s a darn sight easier to integrate with your existing applications.
Just think about it. How is a GUI going to help you convert your billing application to let you send invoices out to customers by email? With CoolSpools and Communiqué it can take little more than adding a few command calls to your CL program to convert your invoice spooled files to PDF format and email them.
To take another example, what if you want to email your internal users their sales reports in Excel format each morning rather than printing it and distributing it on paper? A GUI is not much help there. With Slipstreams and Communiqué, you can run your query and save the output as an Excel file rather than a spooled file and then email the file as an attachment, all with a couple of simple program changes to call the appropriate commands.
One final idea for you: do you have to support iSeries batch jobs that run overnight or at weekends? Why not put a call to Communiqué in your program error handling routines? That way, when an error occurs, you can receive an email at home or in the office. Neat.
Although Communiqué gives you all you need to create email messages in MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) format on your AS/400 or iSeries, for these email messages to be routed and delivered successfully, you must have previously configured and activated the appropriate email environment on your system.
If you need help with configuring or managing email on your iSeries or AS/400, some useful links and documents can be found here.
4 Mb of iSeries disk space.
OS/400 V5R1M0 or higher.