NOTIFY

Specifies that you want PSF to notify up to four users when the printer finishes printing your job. The NOTIFY message advises a user that the job completed, successfully or unsuccessfully, and indicates which output is finished, incomplete, or unprintable. If the printer is attached through DPF, the message that PSF issues does not indicate that printing is complete; it means that PSF finished the processing.

PSF sends the notice when an output group is stacked. An output group can contain multiple data sets.

You can specify the NOTIFY parameter in an OUTPUT statement, as follows:

NOTIFY=(node.userid1[, node.userid2][,node.userid3][,node.userid4])

The values are:

node

Specifies a one to eight alphanumeric character node for a system where the notification is to be sent. The node is optional if it is the same as the system that runs the print job.

userid

Specifies a one to eight alphanumeric character user ID of the person who is to receive the notification.

Even if you specified the NOTIFY parameter in your print-job JCL, in these circumstances, you will not receive a message saying that your print job is canceled:

• If a printer operator presses the printer CANCEL key while the first data set of a job containing multiple data sets is printing, the first data set is canceled, rather than the entire group or job. You will not receive a message saying that your print job is canceled, but you will receive a message saying that your job is complete, even though the first data set is not complete. If the operator presses the CANCEL key while the last data set of a group is printing, you will receive a message saying that your print job is canceled.
• If a printer operator types a JES CANCEL command that specifies your job number, and the job contains multiple data sets, your job is canceled, but you will not receive a message saying that your output is canceled.

See Specifying notification when the print job finishes printing for examples of using the NOTIFY parameter.