Even that is utterly unnecessary because we use ControlM for basically all of the batch work in my area that I know of and there's already automation that opens

Even that is utterly unnecessary because we use ControlM for basically all of the batch work in my area that I know of and there's already automation that opens an Incident on a job failure that can flow into the whole on call system! If a job or cycle is critical and needs to finish by a certain time you can setup messages to go out at that time and everything.