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To place a job on hold, select the Hold Job icon and click on the job to be held in the queue. The job will be held until it is released using the release icon.
The ability to suspend the execution of a job in the K or L queues is dependent on a number of factors. The first and most important of these is the performance and complexity of the system. The ability of the icon to reflect the current state of the queue is dependent on a latency that may occur as the queue state is updated in a multiple cluster or remote server environment. Another factor that may cause a difficulty in suspending the job is that if a job does not perform DCL commands, it may not be stopped. Usually, jobs that have a designated delay in the K and L queues and perform some DCL commands are able to be aborted using the suspend function. |
To remove a job from the suspend state, select the Resume Job icon and
click on the job to be resumed. The job will continue from the point it
was held.
1.2.3.13 Modify Job Settings
The control data of a job can be modified by selecting the job settings
icon and selecting a job. The Job Control Data dialog box will appear.
Equivilent to selecting Modify from the
Job menu.
1.2.3.14 Establish Initiate
To establish an initiate between two jobs, click on the Establish
Initiate icon. The cursor can then be used to draw an initiate from one
job to another. First, click on the job to be used as the initiate and
drag the cursor to the job to be initiated. A line will be drawn with
an arrow pointing to the job to be initiated.
1.2.3.15 Establish Prerequisite
To establish a prerequisite between two jobs, click on the Establish
Prerequisite icon. The cursor can then be used to create a prerequisite
from one job to another. First, click on the job to be used as the
prerequisite and drag the cursor to the job to be submitted upon
completion. The line is drawn from the prequisite to the subsequent
job. A dot will be placed on the line closest to the prerequisite.
1.2.3.16 Modify Job Dependencies
In order to modify a dependency (either an initiate or a prerequisite)
between two jobs, select the Modify Job Dependencies icon. First, click
on the initial job and drag the cursor to the job it has a dependency
with. Next, release the cursor. A dialog box will appear which can be
used to either remove or change the type of dependency.
1.2.4 Job Group Menu Bar
Job groups are windows that contain a set of jobs usually linked by interdependencies. As you will see later in this chapter it is possible to display several job group windows at a time (known as a layout). The Job Group Menu Bar is located at the top of job group windows. These menu selections are associated with the job group in the window selected.
For example, you can add a job to the current group by selecting Job from the Include menu. You can also change the zoom level of the jobs in the window or the orientation of the jobs in relation to each other. The main thing to keep in mind is that these menus affect the current job group only and not any other group in the layout.
The menus are described briefly below:
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