HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Managing Jobs and Supporting Users

Managing Jobs in Queues and Spoolers

HPDPS schedules this job ahead of other jobs in the queue that have a

priority less than 75.

You can also, in effect, use the job-priority attribute to promote a job

to be the ﬁrst job in the queue by setting the priority for the job to 100.

For example:

pdmod -x "job-priority=100" Spool3:3987600005

If all other jobs in the queue have a priority less than 100,

Spool3:3987600005 becomes theﬁrst job inthe queue because it has the

highest priority of all of the jobs in the queue. If another job already has

a priority of100 and the priority-fifo scheduling method isin use, the

promoted job will be scheduled as soon as the earlier priority 100 job has

completed.

Resubmitting Jobs for Users

You can decrease the amount of time needed to print a pending job if you

resubmit it to a different logical printer that has one or more idle

physical printers that can support the job. Users can resubmit their own

jobs, but they might not know which other physical printer or printers

can support the job. As a result, they might not know the name of the

logical printer or printers associated with the physical printer to which

they can resubmit their jobs. You can resubmit a job if it is in any of the

following states: pending, held, retained, or timed-out.

In the following example, you already know the global job identiﬁer of

the job and the name of a logical printer with an associated physical

printer that supports the attributes of the job.

To resubmit job Spool4:3987100076 to logical printer LogPrt7, enter:

pdresubmit LogPrt7 Spool4:3987100076

HPDPS validates the job again against the logical printer and the

physical printer or printers associated with the logical printer. If job

validation fails, you receive an error message and the job remains in the

original queue or spooler. If job validation is successful and the logical

printer to which you resubmitted the job is in a different spooler, HPDPS

assigns a new identiﬁer to the job.

For more information about resubmitting jobs, refer to “Resubmitting

Jobs to Different Logical Printers” in Chapter 9.