I'll admit that my mind is not running quite right today. But something that is bouncing around is notification of events happening on "servers", especially z/OS. Would it be helpful, or stupid, to set up a "twitter" type, secured, server. Then have the appropriate people from work, who have smartphones or even PCs, be able to "follow" specific topics, which may be things such as individual server names, or "z/OS product job status", or "abended jobs". Or are some companies doing something similar using SMS? We use SMS messages via CA-Unicenter for monitoring CA-Unicenter "tickets" assigned to our group. But we cannot individually decide if we would like more. And we don't generate tickets for things like "production job .... completed successfully on 2012-03-10 at 13:58" or "Event ... has not completed successfully yet." On weekends, we are totally "dark" and the on-call Production Support person must periodically logon to z/OS in order to check statuses. I thought it might! be easier if they got "tweets" about things.
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