HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Managing Jobs and Supporting Users
Managing Jobs in Queues and Spoolers
Assigning a job-discard-time for a Job
A user might request that you assign a discard time to a job so that, if a
job has not printed by a certain time, HPDPS discards the job. For
example, the job might contain confidential information that needs to be
secured after printing, but the job owner is only available until 5:00 p.m.
to pick up the job. Therefore, the user wants HPDPS to discard the job if
it has not printed by 5:00 p.m. HPDPS ignores the discard time once the
document starts printing, so a job that requires two hours to print could
start printing at 4:59 p.m.
For example, to assign a discard time of 5:00 p.m. of the current day,
enter:
pdmod -x "job-discard-time=17:00:00" Spool3:3957400034
If you specify a time that is earlier than the present time, the job
modification fails and you receive an error message. You can also supply
a date following the time value in the format ' mm/dd/y y', such as
'17:00:00 08/09/97'. Enclose the time and date string in
single-quotation marks. If you do not specify a date, HPDPS uses the
current date.
The time and date format shown is for C locale. If your system uses a
format other than C locale, enter the time and date in the format
supported by your system.
You might get different results than you expect if you specify a value for
the job-discard-time attribute and for the job-retention-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.
Assigning a job-print-after Time for a Job
A user might request that you prevent a job from printing until after a
given time. For example, the user might have a meeting scheduled for
later in the day in a different building and need a confidential job for the
meeting. The job could be routed to a printer close to the meeting room
with a time that is a little earlier than the meeting time. The user could
be at the printer to receive the printed output, and the job would
complete before the meeting begins. If you do not specify a value for the
job-print-after attribute, the attribute has no default value. HPDPS
schedules the job on the next available physical printer that supports the
job.