HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Managing Jobs and Supporting Users
Managing Jobs in Queues and Spoolers
After the job prints, HPDPS retains the job in the spooler for the amount
of time specified. You and the user who submitted the job can make
modifications to the attributes of the job while it is retained. For
example, you might want to modify the results-profile attribute of
the job to print copies for different people. Refer to “Setting Up the Job
results-profile” shortly for an explanation of this attribute. You can then
resubmit the job to the same logical printer or to a different logical
printer.
NOTE You might get different results than you expect if you specify a value for
the job-retention-period attribute and for the job-discard-time
attribute. Normally you would only specify a value for one of the two
attributes. If the discard time is earlier than the end of the retention
period, HPDPS discards the job before the retention period expires.
Determining When Retained Jobs Will Be Discarded
The completion-time job attribute reports when the job completed and
the job-retention-period attribute specifies the amount of time, in
hours and minutes, that HPDPS retains the job before discarding it. The
retention period begins after the job completes.
To determine when HPDPS will discard job Spool2:3947600212, enter:
pdls -U -r brief,completion-time,job-retention-period \
-s column Spool2:3947600212
HPDPS displays information similar to the following:
Current Intervening Printer Printers
Job ID Name State Jobs Requested Assigned
---- ----------------- ---------- --------- ----------- --------- ----------
168 Spool2:3947600212 file1.txt retained LogPrt1 PhyPrt1
Completion Retention Document File
Time Period Number Format Name
------------------- --------- -------- ------ ----
'12:15:00 08/05/97' 2:00 1 ascii file1.txt
In this example, HPDPS will discard the job at 2:15 in the afternoon.