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Setting Up and Maintaining Queues
14.7 Maintaining Queues
Example
A user has noticed that a job is processing in an endless loop. The user is not the
owner of the job and lacks sufficient privilege to stop it. The user enlists your aid
as the system manager. You might enter the following command:
$ SHOW QUEUE/BATCH/ALL_JOBS/BY_JOB_STATUS=EXECUTING
Batch queue JADE_BATCH, available, on JADE::
Entry Jobname Username Status
----- ------- -------- ------
312 ARTWORK HUNTER Executing
Batch queue OPAL_BATCH, available, on OPAL::
Entry Jobname Username Status
----- ------- -------- ------
317 STOCKS CHANDLER Executing
Batch queue RUBY_BATCH, available, on RUBY::
Entry Jobname Username Status
----- ------- -------- ------
888 TEMPO ENGLISH Executing
$ DELETE/ENTRY=317
14.7.2.7 Pausing an Output Queue to Control Print Job Position and Alignment
Pausing an output queue lets you communicate with the print symbiont
interactively. Enter STOP/QUEUE (without any qualifiers) to pause a queue.
Once a queue is paused, you can perform the following operations:
• Specify the position at which a suspended job is to resume printing. For
example, suppose a printer has a paper jam and the first several pages of
a print job are destroyed. You can pause the queue and restart the job,
resuming printing at the beginning of the file.
For more information, see Section 14.7.2.7.1.
• Specify the number of pages and the type of data for aligning printer forms.
For example, suppose a printer uses a paper stock that is a preprinted
continuous-form paper. When you begin printing a job, you notice the paper
is not correctly aligned, so output does not print in the correct space on the
preprinted form. You can pause the queue and print sample data to help you
correct the paper alignment.
For more information, see Section 14.7.2.7.2.
Note
To perform these tasks, you must enter STOP/QUEUE after the job has
begun printing.
14.7.2.7.1 Specifying the Position of Print By default, when you pause a queue
and restart it, printing resumes in the current job at a checkpoint near where
it left off. To specify the position at which the current job is to resume printing,
pause the queue, then enter START/QUEUE with any of the following qualifiers:
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