HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 11 357
Managing Jobs and Supporting Users
Determining Job States and Job Status
pdq -U -r brief,previous-job-state,job-state-reasons -s column
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Spool3:3459400023
HPDPS displays information similar to the following:
Current Intervening Printer Printers
Job ID Name State Jobs Requested Assigned
--- ------------------ --------- ------- ----------- --------- --------
172 Spool3:3459400023 file1.txt held 1 LogPrt1
Previous
State Reasons
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preprocessing hold set
About Current and Previous Job States
The following states are valid for the current job state, which is reported
by the current-job-state attribute, and the previous job state, which
is reported by the previous-job-state attribute.
Job State Reason
cancelled The job has been cancelled by the job
submittor or by an operator. The
job-state-reasons attribute
provides the reason.
held The job is in a queue and cannot be
scheduled. The job-hold attribute
might be set to true or the job might
be held for some other reason, such as
resources not being ready. The
job-state-reasons attribute
provides the reason.
paused The job has been paused with the
pdpause command.
pending The job is in a queue and is waiting to
be scheduled and sent to a physical
printer.
pre-processing The job has been created, but it is in
the process of being validated.