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HP Easytime/XL User's Guide: HP e3000 MPE/iX Computer Systems > Chapter 3 HP Easytime/XL Tasks
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Much of the work that is done on the system can be accomplished with jobs. A job is a file that contains commands that would normally be entered at the keyboard during an interactive session. When starting a job, the computer interprets and executes these commands automatically. No further user input is necessary. HP Easytime/XL sorts jobs according to status and runs each in turn. These jobs are listed (queued) on the Job Management screen where they can be managed and can monitor their progress. The menus at the top of the Job Management screen contain all of the options necessary for managing the jobs, including the following tasks:
The Job Management screen provides the following information about jobs on the system:
Figure 3-5 “Job Management” illustrates the Job Management screen. The jobs can be monitored on the system by checking the status field on the Job Management screen. The status of a job can be any one of the following:
If a job cannot continue because of an error, you may need to delete the job and restart. To delete any active job or jobs that are waiting in the job queue: Jobs can be scheduled to run at a later date or time, for example, after you have gone home for the evening. If you have a job that updates a database, or other files, you can schedule it to run at night when the files are not being used.
The job appears in the job queue with a status of SCHED and starts at the scheduled date and time. If a job in the job queue is not yet running, you can put it on hold to delay its running. The job appears in the job queue with the status ON HOLD and will not start until you take it off hold. If one of more jobs are on hold, they must be taken off hold before they can run. The job appears in the job queue with a status of ACTIVE or READY. This task suspends (interrupts) a job in progress. If system resources are limited, you can speed up the processing of some jobs by suspending other, less critical jobs. The job stops and its status changes to SUSPEND. The job will not continue until you resume processing. The job continues to run from the point where it was suspended. If you are the system administrator, you can move a job to the top of the queue by changing the job status. It becomes the next job to run. If you are the system administrator, you can limit the number of jobs running at one time on the system. If the job limit is set at 5, only the first 5 jobs can begin processing. Subsequent jobs have a status of READY and wait in the job queue until one of the active jobs ends. If you are the system administrator, you can restrict which jobs are allowed to execute. The jobfence is the minimum priority level a job must exceed in order to run. The jobfence can be any value from 0 to 14. If the jobfence is set at 8, for example, then only those jobs with a priority of 9 or higher can run. Log on to HP Easytime/XL and go to Job Management, to view jobs currently logged on to the system. The view can be restricted to a particular set of jobs, for example, those in a specific account.
If the view of jobs has been changed, it can be reset to display all the jobs on the system. Start HP Easytime/XL and go to Job Management, jobs are sorted on the screen by status (the order in which they will run). To change the sort: The jobs on the screen will be sorted according to the setting selected. An asterisk (*) appears in front of the selected setting. This setting is valid until exiting from HP Easytime/XL or the sort is changed again. |
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