Determining the Status of Your Job

You can request status information about your job when you submit the job or after you submit the job.

Requesting Status Information When Submitting a Job

Use the optional -r flag with the pdpr command to have HPDPS display status information about your job when it is accepted. This flag value returns a listing of key job attributes and their values. The following example shows how to request brief status information when you submit a job.

To submit the file File1 to the default logical printer and receive brief status information, enter:

pdpr -r brief File1

HPDPS displays information similar to the following about your job:

                                 Current       Printer
Job    ID                Name    State         Requested
---    --------------    ----    -------       ---------
8      spl5:075410002    File1   pending       LogPrt1

where:

Job: Is the local job identifier for your job, which you can use in HPDPS commands to refer to your job. Others, such as administrators, must use the global job identifier (see ID below) when referring to your job.
ID: Is the global job identifier for your job. The global job identifier is the number by which others, such as administrators, can refer to your job.
Name: Is the name of the job. If you do not specify the job-name attribute, HPDPS uses the name of the first document file in your job as the job name.
Current State: Shows the status of your job. The information in this example shows that the job is pending (in the queue).
Printer Requested: Shows the name of the logical printer to which the job has been submitted.

Requesting Status Information after Submitting the Job

To display status information about your job after you have submitted it, enter the pdq command and identify the logical printer to which you submitted your job. The command then displays status information about all the jobs (submitted by you) in the queue associated with the logical printer to which you submitted your job. The following examples show how you can request status information after submitting a job.

To request status information about jobs you submitted to your default logical printer, enter:

pdq

To request status information about jobs you submitted to logical printer LogPrt4, enter:

pdq -p LogPrt4

HPDPS displays information similar to the following about all your jobs in the queue associated with the logical printer you specified.

                              Current     Intervening  Printer    Printer
Job  ID                Name   State       Jobs         Requested  Assigned
---  ---------------   ----   ----------  -----------  ---------  --------
13   spl4:1104221000   File1  processing  0            LogPrt4    PhysPrt1
14   spl4:1105226030   JobA   pending     1            LogPrt4
15   spl4:1133000058   MyJob  pending     2            LogPrt2

In the first job listed, the local job identifier is 13 and the global job identifier is spl4:1104221000; the server name is spl4. File1 is the job name and there are no jobs ahead of it in the queue. Logical printer LogPrt4 has assigned your job to physical printer PhysPrt1. HPDPS is processing the job, as indicated by Current State.




	NOTE: Your administrator may have set up your system with multiple logical printers sending jobs to the same queue. If you have submitted jobs to more than one of the logical printers supporting the same queue, HPDPS displays status information for all of your jobs in the queue (as shown in the preceding example) regardless of which logical printer the job was submitted to.

Determining the Status of Your Job

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