HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Managing Jobs and Supporting Users

Managing Jobs in Queues and Spoolers

job-discard-time Speciﬁes the calendar date and time at which the job will be discarded,

whether or not it has printed. If the job is retained in the spooler using

the job-retention-period attribute, the job will be discarded at the

speciﬁed time even if the retention period has not expired.

job-retention-period Speciﬁes the amount of time following job completion that the job is

retained in the spooler before it is discarded. After HPDPS processes the

job, the job is contained in the spooler in the retained state. If this

attribute has a value, it must be set to zero before the job can be deleted

with either the pdrm or pddelete commands.

The following attributes affect when HPDPS schedules pending jobs.

intervening-jobs Speciﬁes the number of jobs in the queue ahead of this job. The value of

this attribute is zero if the job is processing; the attribute has no value

for jobs in the retained and timed-out states.

job-priority Speciﬁes a number representing the scheduling priority for the job.

Queues that use the priority-based scheduling method use the value of

this attribute. Users can assign a value up to 50, which is the default,

and administrators can assign a value up to 100. A higher value signiﬁes

a higher priority.

total-job-octets Speciﬁes the total size of the job in octets (bytes). Determined by the

size of all of the printable documents in the job, the number of

document copies in the job as speciﬁed by the copy-count attribute,

and the number of job copies as speciﬁed by the job-copies

component of the results-profile attribute.

The following attributes identify the printers and queue handling the job.

printer-name-request

The name of the logical printer to which the job was submitted. The

value of this attribute changes if the job is resubmitted to a different

logical printer.

queue-assigned The name of the queue which contains the job. This attribute has a value

if the job is in a queue in the pending, held, or paused states, or if

the job state is processing. This attribute has no value if the job is in

the spooler in either the retained or timed-out state.

Table 11-2 Job Control and Scheduling Attributes

Attribute Description