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Setting Up and Maintaining Queues
14.6 Using Queue Options
is lighter. Users can specify the /AFTER qualifier with the PRINT command to
specify that a job is to be printed after a specific time.
14.6.5.2 Changing the Scheduling Priority of a Job
If a batch or print job cannot be processed, it is placed in a pending state and
is not processed until the cause of the pending state is resolved. For more
information, see Section 14.8.2.
To change the scheduling priority of a job, use the /PRIORITY qualifier with SET
ENTRY in the following format:
SET ENTRY/PRIORITY=n entry-number
The following example changes the scheduling priority of a job to 50:
$ SET ENTRY/PRIORITY=50 1131
Do not confuse the job scheduling priority with the base process priority on a
queue. The job scheduling priority value must be in a range of 0 through 255,
where 0 is the lowest priority and 255 is the highest. The default value for
/PRIORITY, which refers to the job scheduling priority, is the value of the system
parameter DEFQUEPRI (usually set at 100).
14.6.6 Using Banner Pages
Banner pages are specially formatted pages that you can set up for queues, to
help identify and separate output jobs when they exit a printer. Banner pages
also help identify and separate files within jobs.
Two types of banner pages are:
• Job pages are banner pages that identify and separate jobs.
• File pages are banner pages that identify and separate files within a job.
Most sites use only a subset of the available banner pages at any given time. The
following table describes the types of banner pages you can use:
Type Description
For More
Information
Job Pages
Flag page A single page printed before each job. Figure 14–11
Burst page Two flag pages, divided by a separation (burst)
bar, printed before each job.
Figure 14–11
Trailer page A page printed after each job. Figure 14–13
File Pages
Flag page A single page printed before each file in a job. Figure 14–12
Burst page Two flag pages, divided by a separation (burst)
bar, printed before each file in a job.
Figure 14–12
Trailer page A page printed after each file in a job. Figure 14–13
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