HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 11 337

Managing Jobs and Supporting Users

Managing Jobs in Queues and Spoolers

This section describes how to manage jobs in the queue that are waiting

to be scheduled, and how to manage jobs contained in a spooler that are

either in the retained or timed-out states. These job-management

tasks include:

• promoting jobs in queues

• increasing the priority of jobs in queues

• resubmitting jobs to different logical printers

• holding and releasing jobs in queues

• assigning a retention period to a job

• assigning a discard time to a job

• assigning a print-after time to a job

Attributes That Control Scheduling, Retaining, and

Discarding Jobs

Table 11-2 describes the job attributes that control job scheduling and

that determine whether HPDPS discards or retains the job after the job

prints. The table also describes some of the attributes that reﬂect the

status of pending and processing jobs.

Table 11-2 Job Control and Scheduling Attributes

Attribute Description

The following attributes determine when HPDPS schedules jobs.

job-hold Speciﬁes whether the job can be scheduled for printing. This attribute

can have one of two values: yes or no. If the value for this attribute is

yes, the job state is held. A job can be in the held state for reasons

other than this attribute being set to yes.

job-print-after Speciﬁes the calendar date and time after which the job can be

scheduled. If a value is speciﬁed for this attribute, the job remains in the

queue in the held state until the time speciﬁed by the attribute. HPDPS

then schedules the job (unless it is held for other reasons).