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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Z Workload Scheduler
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 15, 2025

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add attachment in email alert

Very often, whenever operation or jobstream owner receives the TWS email alert for job completion error, we would want to get the joblog for troubleshooting. If the joblog could be sent as attachment togther with the email alert, it could speed up the investigation process.

In TWS, there is a data store. When configured, joblog would be stored in that. When email alert generated for job error, the corresponding joblog could be retrieved from data store and then sent as email attachment.

We could introduce a new optional parameter, for example ATTACHJOBLOG in DD:EQQEMAIL(RULES)

FILTER(...) HEADER(...) ATTACHJOBLOG

If ATTACHJOBLOG is specified, TWS would generate the email alert and retrieve the joblog from TWS data store as attachment.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Sep 8, 2025

    Yes, you might revise the idea to imbed an url link such that user could click the link to access DWC to access the joblog. However, I still think that email attachment would be a direct way to facilitate user during problem trouble shooting due to the follow reasons.

    1) email and DWC would be 2 different levels in security concerns. User might have email access in general (in office or in home via VPN) but no access to DWC. DWC is, in fact, TWS console mainly used by operation.

    2) The delay for user to access DWC might be longer than the excess time to generate the email attachment. Furthermore, the email attachment might be in zip format with the help of zEDC which could reduce the impact of side effects.

    3) To further increase the flexibility of email attachment, could allow user limit the email attachment contents by FILTER(...) HEADER(...) ATTACHJOBLOG(sysout_class). If sysout_class subparameter is specified, only joblog sysout with matched class would be attached in the email.

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    Marco Cardelli
    Sep 5, 2025

    It's a very interesting idea but it could have a side effect (performance, delay, storage). An alternative solution might be to add in the e-mail the link to the DWC page to retrieve the joblog. Let us know if this could be accepted from your side.

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