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14
Setting Up and Maintaining Queues
If you have a printer connected to your system, or if you want to use batch
processing, you must use queues. A queue allows users to submit requests for
printing or batch processing at any time; the system then prints or processes jobs
as resources allow.
Before setting up queues, you need to understand how the queue manager and
the queue database operate and how to create them for the OpenVMS queuing
system. These are explained in Chapter 13.
Information Provided in This Chapter
This chapter describes the following tasks:
Task Section
Managing queues on small systems Section 14.1.1
Designing your batch queue environment Section 14.2.1
Designing your output queue environment Section 14.2.2
Planning your queue setup Section 14.3
Creating and starting queues Section 14.4
Restarting execution queues on reboot Section 14.5
Using queue options Section 14.6
Using and creating forms Section 14.6.7
Using queue management commands Section 14.7.1
Managing jobs in queues Section 14.7.2
Solving queue problems Section 14.8
This chapter explains the following concepts:
Concept Section
Queuing process Section 14.1
Types of queues Section 14.1.2
Autostart feature Section 14.1.3
Options for controlling access to queues Section 14.6.1
Job retention Section 14.6.2
Queue characteristics Section 14.6.3
Batch processing options Section 14.6.4
Job scheduling options Section 14.6.5
Banner pages Section 14.6.6
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