Further comments about SMTP and SMS. I set MAXMAILBYTES=1. This prevents my
becoming a spam relay.
My DATACLAS ACS routine catches:
when (&DSN = SMTP.**)
do /*D*/
write ' c' /*D*/
set &dataclas = 'SMTPTMP' /*S*/
end /*D*/
and the DATACLAS of SMTPTMP controls the space allocation.
Dave Gibney
Information Technology Services
Washington State University
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> Behalf Of Linda Mooney
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 5:17 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: Current production abend of SMTP
>
> Thanks Anthony and Dale,
>
>
>
> We will review the parameters you mentioned. Thank you both very
> much. I'm curios though, does the recipient get any sort of message to
> tell them that the dataset has been truncated? Wouldn't want to let
> the customer think that they had the entire output if they didn't.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Linda Mooney
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Thompson" <anthony.thomp...@nt.gov.au>
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 4:04:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Current production abend of SMTP
>
> Review the MAXMAILBYTES and CHECKSPOOLSIZE parameters in the SMTP
> configuration dataset.
>
> From the z/OS V1.11 CS IP Configuration Reference:
>
> The value used for bytes in the MAXMAILBYTES statement determines the
> space allocations for data sets allocated to hold the mail while it is
> being processed and is waiting for delivery. Be careful not to use too
> large a value, or the data sets allocated are too large. This can vary
> with configuration of DF/SMS on your system. However, in general, the
> allocation used for the NOTE data sets is equivalent to specifying
> SPACE=(6233,(aaaaa,bbbb)), where aaaa=round((MAXMAILBYTES/4000)+1) and
> bbbb=round(aaaa/2).
>
>
> Use the CHECKSPOOLSIZE statement to specify cause SMTP to check the
> size of JES spool file. If the JES spool file is larger than the
> primary allocation for the hlq.TEMP.NOTE data set, the resulting SMTP
> note is truncated. When the SMTP note is truncated, an informational
> message EZA5340I or EZA5342I is generated in the SMTP OUTPUT file. If
> this parameter is not specified, SMTP works as originally designed.
> Secondary allocations are requested for continuing growth of the
> hlq.TEMP.NOTE data set. Abend B37 can occur if 16 extents are exceeded
> and more storage is needed.
>
>
> Cheers Ant. Thompson
> NT Government, Australia
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 2010 7:59 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Current production abend of SMTP
>
> Greetings All,
>
>
>
> Just had a production abend of SMTP. One of our application
> programmers ran a job to email a few (1.2 million) records to a
> customer. SMPT crashed, SB37 on SMTP.TEMP.NOTE. I renamed that file
> to SMTP.TEMP.NOTE .OLD after the offending job was deleted from JES2
> and we started SMTP again. It filled the dataset again, SB37 again,
> odd thing is that the content is exactly the same as before.
>
>
>
> None of us know much about SMTP. What would be the best way to recover
> this?
>
>
>
> TIA,
>
>
>
> Linda Mooney
>
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