Email Notification

[jo8712]

I know there is that stage in job sequencer that sends an email, but I was wondering if there is somewhere to set up email notification if the job fails?

[MukundShastri]

You can do that using the sequencer. Call the job activity stage for your job first and give trigger 'otherwise' and then call the send email activity stage. I think this should work.

[chulett]

I know there is that stage in job sequencer that sends an email, but I was wondering if there is somewhere to set up email notification if the job fails?

You mean somewhere other than by using a Sequencer? There are a couple of options. An Enterprise Scheduler (like Control-M) can do that as part of its ability to run applications like DataStage jobs, but you are better off having it run Sequence jobs - and then you might as well do the emails yourself. You can also create Job Control code to wrapper the job and send emails in case there are situations that require it.

There isn't anything like one 'global' place in DataStage that says 'Send this email if any job ever fails'.

[rasi]

Check out for DSSendmail in the manual. You need to code to call this function to send email when job fails.

Cheers
Siva

[ray.wurlod]

There is, in Routines\Built-In\Utilities, a routine called DSSendMailTester, which contains sample code to allow you to research how to invoke the DSSendMail() function correctly, and to test it.