When emailing a file using the SAS EMAIL Engine from z/OS with a 'CSV'
extension, you may receive a corrupted file in Microsoft Outlook.  To
correct the problem, you must change the CSV entry in the SAS Registry
from "application/vnd.ms-excel" to "text/plain".

Follow these steps to change the 'CSV' entry in the SAS registry.

Execute your SAS CLIST on the Mainframe.  From the Program Editor at the
Command Prompt type "regedit" (see below)

   Program Editor
   Command ===> regedit
   00001
   00002

A window with SAS Registry will be displayed

On the left side of the screen,

Put your cursor over top of the two boxes next to "CORE" and hit enter,

Under "CORE" put your cursor on top of the two boxes next to "FILETYPES"
and hit enter,

Under "FILETYPES" put your cursor next to "CSV" and hit enter

on the right side of the screen, put cursor next to 'CONTENTTYPE" to
highlight the following:

  CONTENTTYPE             "application/vnd,

move your cursor to the top of the screen over Edit and hit enter

move cusor to Modify under Edit and hit enter

Change "Value Data:" from "application/vnd.ms-excel" to "text/plain"
and hit ok in the lower left corner



WARNING: The above will change how we handle sending all attachments
with the "CSV" extension.


See SAS Note  #18195  to make changes globally.

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