I believe it is hard to have too much information. But, more than an easy screen (of phone these days) could be excessive.
I think the kind of readily available information you are think of would be welcome in such an email notice. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Brian Westerman > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 10:58 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information) > > Hi, > > We are testing our SyzMail product that provides for the sending of email > when a task (JOB STC or TSO user) ends that contains all of the normal stuff > you would expect to see (maxCC, stepCCs, programs used, etc.) and I was > thinking that it would be great to provide the execution time (both wall clock > and CPU) that the task used and the start and end times and some other > information that is all just right there for the picking, but it has started > some > controversy here because many (most actually) think that people could care > less about the details and mostly just care about the condition codes. I > myself > think that since the email is being generated and we have the information > available, that it makes sense to send it. My thinking is that if you can > see at > a "glance" that the job ran a particular way that you might be more likely to > save time by not having to find the job output and view it. In fact, I was > thinking that sometimes seeing how much time a job used, wall and CPU, can > be almost as important as the condition codes. > > I agree that providing information that no one will ever want is a waste, and > have considered providing the option for a normal and "verbose" type of > email, but I keep thinking that once the job is done and the email is > dynamically generated, it's not like the user can come back and say, that they > have a CC=4 in step07 so they would like to have some additional information, > it's just too late by then. > > I figured that asking normal people (which some of you are), might be a > reasonable thing to do. > > Any comments or suggestions? > > Brian > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
