Does the MPE OS have any facility that would notify (similar to a TELL
or TELLOP command) some session-id of a given batch job completing
successfully or aborting?

In the IBM world, the JOB card has a NOTIFY= parameter, that will send
a message to the terminal of the session identified as the subject of
the NOTIFY.  This person/session is generally the person who streamed
the job, or is responsible for it.

Where I work, there is no automated scheduling;  everything is manual,
so when a job aborts, noone knows until the $STDLIST has been
scrutinized.  Because of the way production is set up, this obviously
causes problems if the abort isn't caught right away.

I'm looking for something that will kick in as soon as a job
completes, and TELL's (or TELLOP's) someone that the job ended, and
whether it was normal or an abort.  Short of CONTINUE's and an
IF-ELSE-ENDIF after every possible problem point in the job, has
anyone been through this problem and conquered it before?

Thanx for any input, this is the best newsgroup on the web.

Stephen Pennine
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