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Hi,
I am trying to send two attachments from my Notification Activity from inside my job sequence.
But the problem I am facing is that I am able to send only one attachment, It is sending only the first file. For the second one it is saying
"WARNING - MISSING ATTACHMENT: Cannot open attachment file" .But the file is present in the specified path. I am separating the files by a comma(,).
If I use space or semicolon to separate the attachment files then it is sending none of the files.

If I interchange the position of the two files, than again the first one it is sending but not the second one.

Could any body please help me on this.
I hope sending multiple attachment is possible through Datastage Notification Activity.


Thanks in advance,
Arnab

Not sure that is supported, we would always zip any files to be sent so we could send it out with a single attachment.

Sending multiple attachments from a single Email Notification Activity is not supported.

Thanks Craig and Kris.
If it is not supported, then I will create a single file and then send as a single attachment.

Regards,
Arnab

You can create another notification activity with the second file as the attachment. If the user doesn't mind getting two e-mails.

It is supported. You need to separate each file path by comma. I tried it and it works..
e.g
/opt/IBM/~/data/XXFile.csv,/opt/IBM/I~/data/SupplierMatchedFile.csv

hope it helps!

They noted that they've already tried that and had issues. From what I recall, it can depend on your platform and mail server, they don't all work the same way. Some want a comma between the files names, some want a "comma space" and I believe I had one where it took a semi-colon. Still, zipping up everything and sending a single attachment (regardless) was what most of my clients seemed to prefer.

Craig,

Do you remember the platforms which support multiple attachments.(like separated by comma or comma space)?

thanks

I don't recall one that doesn't, it was just a matter of figuring out how it wanted them to look.

I had this same issue and after reading phonseau's suggestion I realized that the root cause was that I initially had a space after the commma separating the filepaths. Removing the space corrected the issue. This is on DataStage 8.7

Causes Error: Sends both attachments succesfully: