The Mail Manager sample on z/OS

The Mail Manager sample application is a suite of programs that demonstrates sending and receiving messages, both within a single environment and across different environments. The application is a simple electronic mailing system that allows users to exchange messages, even if they use different queue managers.

The application demonstrates how to create queues using the MQOPEN call and by putting IBM MQ for z/OS commands on the system-command input queue.

• A CICS application written in COBOL
• A TSO application written in COBOL
• A TSO application written in C

• Preparing the Mail Manager sample on z/OS
  The Mail Manager is provided in versions that run in two environments. The preparation that we must carry out before you run the application depends on the environment that we want to use.
• Running the Mail Manager sample on z/OS
  To start the sample in the CICS Transaction Server for z/OS environment, run transaction MAIL. If we have not already signed on to CICS, the application prompts you to enter a user ID to which it can send your mail.
• Design of the Mail Manager sample on z/OS
  The following sections describe each of the programs that make up the Mail Manager sample application.

Parent topic: Use the sample programs for z/OS