Determining The Status Of Your Job; Requesting Status Information When Submitting A Job - HP 9000 User Manual

Basic Printing Tasks

Determining the Status of Your Job

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:
Job ID
--- -------------
8 spl5:075410002
where:
Job
ID
Name
30
Current
Name State
---- ----------
File1 pending
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.
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.
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.
Printer
Requested
---------
LogPrt1
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