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Setting Up and Maintaining Queues
14.7 Maintaining Queues
You can use the following commands to hold and release jobs:
Command Purpose
SET ENTRY/HOLD Holds a job in a queue indefinitely before processing.
SET ENTRY/AFTER=time Holds a job in a queue for processing after a specified time.
To specify /AFTER for a job on hold, you must also specify
/NOHOLD to cause the job to be held only until the specified
time.
SET ENTRY/NOHOLD Releases a job that is held in a queue for any of the following
reasons:
• A job was submitted with the /HOLD or /AFTER
qualifier.
• A completed job is being held in a queue by the /RETAIN
qualifier. For more information, see Section 14.6.2.
• A job was refused by a user-written symbiont.
SET ENTRY/NOAFTER Releases a job before the time specified with the SET ENTRY
command.
SET ENTRY/RELEASE Releases a job that is held in a queue for any of the following
reasons:
• A job was submitted with the /HOLD or /AFTER
qualifier.
• A completed job is being held in a queue. For more
information, see Section 14.6.2.
• A user-written symbiont has refused a job.
Examples
1. The following example holds a job until the specified time and subsequently
releases the job after that time:
$ SET ENTRY 1121/AFTER=12-FEB-2000:17:30
$ SET ENTRY/NOAFTER
2. The following example holds a job until the end of the current day
(00:00:00.00 o’clock) and subsequently releases the job before that time:
$ SET ENTRY 1121/AFTER=TODAY
$ SET ENTRY/NOAFTER
3. The following example holds a job indefinitely and subsequently releases it:
$ SET ENTRY 1234/HOLD
$ SET ENTRY 1234/RELEASE
14.7.2.4 Requeuing an Executing Job
To stop and requeue an executing print job, enter STOP/QUEUE/REQUEUE.
This command suspends a currently executing job and requeues it to the specified
queue. Other jobs remain pending in the queue until they are processed.
Note
The STOP/QUEUE/REQUEUE command stops only the job currently
executing in the queue. The queue is not stopped.
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