The method I use will not give you immediate notification of 
aborted jobs, but it doesn't require any JCL modifications or 
IF-THEN-ELSE programming, so long as the $STDLIST of the job 
is preserved/deferred on the system.

I run this command as part of my logon UDC (for "manager" 
type logons only, not end-users):

LISTSPF @;SELEQ=[JOBABORT=TRUE]

This lists the $STDLIST's of any jobs that have aborted.

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