API Commands Enable Applications

One of AS/400 email's primary values is as an enabling technology for business to business information exchange. NetMail contains the industry's richest set of email enabling AS/400 API commands. Here is a sample list of what our customers are doing with email enabled AS/400 applications:

Generate and email order confirmations to their customers Generate and email shipment notifications to their customers Email AS/400 files as ASCII delimited files to Excel users on the LAN Generate and email spool file reports – showing sales representative order and shipment status Generate and email manifest documents via wireless networks Generate and send email attached PC files to customers and personnel Receive and process orders from remote sites Receive and process web site product information queries Receive and process inventory updates from distributed warehouses Receive email from custom channels, then forward through NetMail Gateway to other delivery channels Generate financial summary information, electronically burst spool reports and distribute nightly to worldwide email addresses And, by using the Application Program Interface functions included in NetMail, many more.

Literally anything that can be printed, faxed or delivered by courier can now be emailed directly from your application programs using NetMail. Likewise, many things that are now entered via an order entry screen from telephoned, faxed or mailed-in order forms, can be automatically received and entered into your email system for processing.

Here are two examples that illustrate the clear and uncomplicated use of NetMail*400 APIs: