Notification activity properties
Use the Notification stage to specify information about an email notification activity.
An email template file called dssendmail_template.txt dictates the format of the notification email that is sent. A copy of this file exists in every project directory, such as C:\IBM\InformationServer\Server\projects\myproject. You edit this file so that you can use different email formats for each project.
You can specify a parameter whose value you indicate at run time for the SMTP Mail server name field, Senders email address field, Recipients email address field, and Email subject field. Click Browse to open the External Parameter Helper, which shows you all parameters available at this point in the job sequence. Parameters entered in these fields need to be delimited with hashes (#). Parameters that you select from the External Parameter Helper are automatically enclosed in hash symbols.
- SMTP Mail server name
- The name of the server or its IP address. You can specify a parameter whose value you indicate at run time.
- Senders email address
- The email address that the notification is sent from.
- Recipients email address
- The email address that the notification is sent to. You can specify multiple email addresses, separated by a space.
- Email subject
- The text that is included in the subject line of the notification.
- Attachments
- Files to be sent with the notification. Specify a path name or a comma-separated list of pathnames, which must be enclosed in single-quotes or double-quotes. You can also specify an expression that resolves to a pathname or comma-separated pathnames.
- Email body
- The text that is included in the body of the notification.
- Include job status in email
- Checkbox that specifies whether you want to include available job status information in the message.
- Do not checkpoint run
- Checkbox that specifies whether you want to include checkpoint information for this particular notification operation will not be recorded. This means that, if a job later in the sequence fails, and the sequence is restarted, this notification operation will be re-executed regardless of the fact that it was executed successfully before. This option is only available if the sequence as a whole is checkpointed.