Multiple choice technology mainframe

How can a job send a status message to a TSO user at the completion of a job ?

  1. STATUS

  2. NOTIFY

  3. ENDMSG

  4. USER
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Explanation

The NOTIFY parameter in the JOB statement sends a completion message to a specified TSO user when the job finishes. This allows automatic notification of job completion status. STATUS is not a valid parameter, ENDMSG and USER are not used for this purpose. NOTIFY=userid is the correct syntax for job completion notifications.

AI explanation

The JCL JOB statement's NOTIFY parameter (e.g., //jobname JOB ...,NOTIFY=userid) causes the system to send a completion message to the specified TSO user's terminal (or held in their reader) once the job finishes, including the job's completion code/status. This is a standard, well-documented JCL keyword parameter. 'STATUS', 'ENDMSG', and 'USER' are not real JCL JOB statement parameters for this purpose — they're plausible-sounding but fictitious keyword names invented as distractors. NOTIFY is the actual mechanism mainframe operators and programmers rely on to get automatic job-completion alerts without having to poll SDSF or job output manually.

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