HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 9 271

Managing Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers

Managing Jobs in Queues and Spoolers

NOTE If the job has a retention period, as speciﬁed by the

job-retention-period job attribute, you must set the value of the

attribute to zero (0) with the -r ﬂag before you can delete the job from

both the queue and the spooler. If you do not, HPDPS deletes the job

from the queue but the job remains in the spooler until the retention

period expires.

For example, enter:

pdrm -r 0 Spool3:4628700042

4. When you are ﬁnished deleting jobs, resume the queue. For example:

pdresume -c queue Queue3

Deleting Jobs from the Queue and Retaining Them in the

Spooler

At times you might want to delete a job in a queue but retain it in the

spooler. If you retain a job in the spooler, you can resubmit it later to the

same queue or to a different queue.

To delete a job in a queue but retain it in the spooler for one hour, enter:

pdrm -r 1:00 Spool3:4628700035

Note: Instead of deleting a job from a queue, you can resubmit it to

another queue. Refer to “Resubmitting Jobs to Different Logical

Printers” shortly for a description of how to resubmit some or all or the

jobs in a queue.

Deleting Timed-Out or Retained Jobs from the Spooler

To delete jobs in a spooler that are either in the retained or timed-out

states, perform the following steps:

1. Determine which jobs are in the spooler.

Refer to “Querying for Timed-Out and Retained Jobs in the Spooler”

earlier for a description of how to ﬁnd out which jobs are in a spooler.

2. Enter the pdrm command using the -r ﬂag, as shown in this example:

pdrm -r 0 Spool2:4629300046 Spool2:4628700057