Can I get a mail if a job (sm37) fails or is cancelled?

[daniel_humberg]

I have defined a couple of jobs in transaction SM36 which run every night.

Sometimes a job fails because of a dump, a system downtime, etc.

Can I define the job in some way that I get a E-Mail when it fails?

[Former Member]

Hey Dan,

Check out this link below:

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_03/helpdata/EN/2c/abb2e7ff6311d194c000a0c93033f7/frameset.htm

This will surely help what you wanted to do.

Lemme know if it helped you.

Thanks,

Jai

[daniel_humberg]

Hi Rakesh,

Thx. Sounds very interesting.

But I could find no information in that link how to connect an alert to a background job....

Regards,

Daniel

[Former Member]

Hi,

Note #553953 explains you the latest support packages needed and mmodifications in RZ20 for alert monitoring.

Also see notes 176492 and 617547

Rakesh

[Former Member]

Hi,

Follow up the link inorder to set email alerts for background jobs.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/2c/abb2e7ff6311d194c000a0c93033f7/content.htm

Rakesh