diff --git a/.github/workflows/dci-merge.yml b/.github/workflows/dci-merge.yml
index 5605d82a6..1b946f2ee 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/dci-merge.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/dci-merge.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
 
   dci-job:
-    name: "DCI"
+    name: "DCI Merge Job"
     runs-on: bos2
     steps:
 
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ jobs:
           git fetch origin ${{ github.event.merge_group.base_sha }}
           git fetch origin ${{ github.event.merge_group.head_sha }}
           if git diff --name-only ${{ github.event.merge_group.base_sha }} ${{ github.event.merge_group.head_sha }} | grep -E 'roles/|plugins/'; then
-            ./hack/dci-merge.sh
+            echo "Starting DCI job"
+            export GITHUB_TOKEN=${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+            ./hack/dci-merge.sh ${{ github.event.merge_group.head_sha }}
           else
             echo "No code change"
           fi
diff --git a/hack/dci-merge.sh b/hack/dci-merge.sh
index 4d4e48b72..95a67176b 100755
--- a/hack/dci-merge.sh
+++ b/hack/dci-merge.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2023 Red Hat, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2023, 2024 Red Hat, Inc.
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
 # not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@
 
 # script called from a merge queue branch of the redhatci/ansible-collection-redhatci-ocp repo
 
+HEAD_SHA="$1"
+GITHUB_JOBNAME="DCI / DCI Job"
+STATUSES_URL="https://api.github.com/repos/redhatci/ansible-collection-redhatci-ocp/statuses/$HEAD_SHA"
 VIRT=
 DCI_QUEUE=
 SNO_DCI_QUEUE=
@@ -38,11 +41,17 @@ GH_HEADERS=(
     "Authorization: token ${GITHUB_TOKEN}"
 )
 
+send_status() {
+    curl -s "${GH_HEADERS[@]/#/-H}" -X POST -d "{\"state\":\"$1\",\"context\":\"$GITHUB_JOBNAME\"}" "$STATUSES_URL"
+}
+
+set -x
+
 # Lookup the merge commits and get their PR descriptions to detect Test-Hints: strings
 COMMIT=HEAD
 VIRT=
 while true; do
-    PR=$(git log -1 "$COMMIT"|grep -oP 'Merge pull request #\K\d+')
+    PR=$(git log -1 "$COMMIT" --|grep -oP 'Merge pull request #\K\d+')
     if [ -n "$PR" ]; then
         DESC=$(curl -s "${GH_HEADERS[@]/#/-H}" https://api.github.com/repos/redhatci/ansible-collection-redhatci-ocp/pulls/"$PR"|jq -r .body)
 
@@ -136,6 +145,11 @@ while true; do
     COMMIT="${COMMIT}^"
 done
 
+# if nothing is specified
+if [ -z "$VIRT" ]; then
+    VIRT=--virt
+fi
+
 DIR="$(cd ..; pwd)"
 BASEDIR=/usr/share/dci-openshift-agent
 export DCI_SILENT=1
@@ -143,6 +157,12 @@ export DCI_SILENT=1
 cd "$DIR" || exit 1
 
 # shellcheck disable=SC2086
-dci-queue schedule --block -C "$DCI_QUEUE" -- env DCI_SILENT=$DCI_SILENT UPGRADE_ARGS="$UPGRADE_ARGS" RES=@RESOURCE APP_NAME=$APP_NAME APP_ARGS="$APP_ARGS" $BASEDIR/test-runner $VIRT $FORCE_CHECK $TAG $UPGRADE $NO_COMMENT $DIR "$@" $OPTS
+if dci-queue schedule --block -C "$DCI_QUEUE" -- env DCI_SILENT=$DCI_SILENT UPGRADE_ARGS="$UPGRADE_ARGS" RES=@RESOURCE APP_NAME=$APP_NAME APP_ARGS="$APP_ARGS" $BASEDIR/test-runner $VIRT $FORCE_CHECK $TAG $UPGRADE $NO_COMMENT $DIR $OPTS; then
+    send_status success
+    exit 0
+else
+    send_status failure
+    exit 1
+fi
 
 # dci-merge.sh ends here