Sounds good. In addition to CPU and wall time for the job, step times and waits, especially enque and resource waits are useful too.
Linda Sent from my iPhone On Jan 15, 2014, at 10:57 PM, Brian Westerman <brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com> wrote: > 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
