Technical data

Setting Up and Maintaining Queues
14.5 Restarting Execution Queues on Reboot
14.5 Restarting Execution Queues on Reboot
Information about forms, characteristics, and queues is stored in the queue
database. For this reason, creating forms, queues, and characteristics each time
the node or OpenVMS Cluster system reboots is unnecessary. However, you
must start nonautostart execution queues and enable autostart each time a node
reboots. To do so, create a command procedure.
If your configuration is simple, you can add the commands to the site-specific
startup command procedure SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM. If your configuration
requires a large number of commands, create a separate command procedure and
execute it from SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM.
Generic queues are not automatically stopped when a node shuts down.
Therefore, including commands to start generic queues in your startup command
procedure is unnecessary.
14.6 Using Queue Options
The following table describes options that you can use with queues:
Options Type of queue Reference
Control of access to queues Batch and output Section 14.6.1
Job retention Batch and output Section 14.6.2
Characteristics Batch and output Section 14.6.3
Control of batch processing Batch Section 14.6.4
Control of job scheduling Output Section 14.6.5
Banner pages Output Section 14.6.6
Forms Output Section 14.6.7
Control of line and page overflow Output Section 14.6.7.8
Suppression of initial form feed Output Section 14.6.7.9
Device control library modules Output Section 14.6.8
You can implement options in either of the following ways:
• Specify appropriate qualifiers with INITIALIZE/QUEUE when you create a
queue.
• Specify options after you create a queue by including qualifiers with
START/QUEUE or SET QUEUE.
Table 14–1 lists qualifiers you can use to specify queue options, and indicates the
type of queue for which you can specify each option.
Table 14–1 Qualifiers for Specifying Queue Options
Qualifier
Type of
Queue Description
For More
Information
/AUTOSTART_ON Batch
and
output
Creates an autostart execution queue and specifies the
node or nodes (and for output queues, the device or
devices) on which the queues can run.
Section 14.4.1
(continued on next page)
14–20 Setting Up and Maintaining Queues