HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Managing Jobs and Supporting Users

Finding and Identifying Jobs

Understanding Job Identiﬁers

When a user submits a job, HPDPS assigns a local job identiﬁer. The

job-client-id job attribute identiﬁes this value. Because the local job

identiﬁer is speciﬁc to the user, independent of the values assigned to

other users, several different jobs could be assigned the same number.

For instance, the local job identiﬁers for two jobs submitted by different

users could both be 17.

Each job has both a local job identiﬁer and a global job identiﬁer. HPDPS

recognizes and keeps track of the job by the global job identiﬁer, but the

job submittor normally uses the local job identiﬁer. As the administrator,

you perform tasks on the jobs of other users by using the global job

identiﬁer; the local job identiﬁer only applies to jobs that you yourself

submit. Users, however, can also use global job identiﬁers for their own

jobs.

job-owner The name of the user who is responsible for the job.

This attribute defaults to the value of the user-name

attribute unless the job submittor speciﬁed a different

value for the job-originator attribute. HPDPS

prints the value of the job-owner attribute on the start

sheet for the job.

The following attributes provide additional information about the job.

job-name The name of the job. This attribute defaults to the name

of the ﬁrst document speciﬁed in the job. The user can

specify a different name by using the -t ﬂag of the

pdpr command. The job name might print on the start

sheet, depending on the printer model, and helps to

identify the job.

job-comment A text string speciﬁed by the user during job

submission. The text can describe the job in some way,

or provide special information about the job.

Table 11-1 Job Identiﬁcation Attributes

Attribute Description