HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Managing Jobs and Supporting Users
Managing Jobs in Queues and Spoolers
Promoting a User Job
Generally, HPDPS schedules the job in the first position ahead of other
jobs in the queue.
Sometimes users will contact you because they need a job printed right
away.
To promote the pending job Spool5:3872300278 the first position in the
queue, enter:
pdpromote Spool5:3872300278
NOTE If the queue sends jobs to more than one physical printer, the first job in
the queue might not be the next job to print. This can happen if the next
available physical printer is not capable of printing the job based on the
job attributes.
Increasing the Priority of a User Job
Use -x job-priority with the pdmod command to increase the priority
of a job when the queue containing the job uses the priority-fifo
scheduling method. You can set the value of the job-priority attribute
to any integer between 1 and 100; the default value is 50. The job owner
can set this attribute to any value between 1 and 50, but cannot increase
the priority above the default. Decreasing the value below 50 allows
other jobs in the queue using the default priority value to be scheduled
sooner.
For example, to increase the priority of job Spool3:3987600005, enter:
pdmod -x "job-priority=75" Spool3:3987600005
printers-assigned The name of the physical printer to which the job was scheduled. This
attribute has no value until HPDPS schedules and sends the job to a
physical printer. Jobs in the retained and timed-out states have
values for their printers-assigned attributes.
Table 11-2 Job Control and Scheduling Attributes
Attribute Description