Can the IMS abend search and notification function (link below) be used to notify when an IMS transaction has abended within IMS/DC environment?
                 
Setting up the IMS abend search and notification function                               
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ims/13.1.0?topic=SSEPH2_13.1.0/com.ibm.ims13.doc.sdg/ims_imsasnfunc.html

Hello Patrick,

Thank you for your question, and your patience. I spent some time trying to gather the most information that I could on your topic, and conferred with our support team in the meantime just to be certain.

The short answer unfortunately is no, this feature cannot be used in this way. 

Dependent region abends (MPP or BMP) trigger the notification and search "event driven" function only if the abend involves IMS system processing. Application/transaction abends are not recognized by the "event driven" capability.

The info above was found from an IMS version 10 Redbook. If you are interested in reading further, see PDF page 56 (print page 40) of it here:
https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247526.pdf

To make the online documentation you provided more clear, we will update it with a notice that makes this same statement.