JMP> Resource table - Missile or Camera

JMP> Resource table - Missile or Camera

Tom Hastings hastings at cp10.es.xerox.com
Mon Mar 31 17:41:51 EST 1997


At 08:28 02/13/97 PST, Bob Pentecost wrote:
>Harry,
>
>jmResourceType is a read-only object, so how can the job be affected? 
>Wouldn't the object change values only as resources are used?
>
>This brings up another question. jmResourceType says "The type of resource, 
>e.g., medium, ink, staples, processing-time, color-impressions, etc. 
>required to process the job before the job start processing.  This value is 
>updated while the job processes to indicate the amount of the resource that 
>is being used while the job is processing.  After the job completes 
>processing, this value indicates the total usage of this resource made by 
>the job." If a job hasn't started processing, a resource will indicate how 
>many will be produced. Then, when the job starts processing, the value will 
>go to zero and count up to three. Is the management application expected to 
>query jmJobState to know how to interpret the value? If so, should we 
>define which states cause the value of a resource to change from "required" 
>to "used"?


Except for the following, each attribute is either xxxRequested or xxxConsumed,
but not both.  


outputBinIndex	56
outputBinIndex	56
outputBinName	56
sides	56
documentFormatIndex	56
documentFormatEnum	56
physicalDeviceIndex	57
physicalDeviceName	57


In no case is a requested value reset to 0, except for the xxxCurrentCopy
attributes.


jobCopiesRequested	57
jobCopiesCompleted	57
documentCopiesRequested	57
documentCopiesCompleted 57 [glitch in TOC doesn't show this - oops]
jobKOctetsTotal	58
jobKOctetsCompleted	59
impressionsSpooled	60
impressionsSentToDevice	60
impressionsInterpreted	60
impressionsRequested	60
impressionsCompleted	60
impressionsCompletedCurrentCopy	60
pagesRequested	60
pagesCompleted	60
pagesCompletedCurrentCopy	60
sheetsRequested	61
sheetsRequested	61
sheetsCompleted	61
sheetsCompletedCurrentCopy	61
mediumRequested	61
mediumConsumed	61
colorantRequestedIndex	61
colorantRequestedName	61
colorantConsumedIndex	62
colorantConsumedName	62




>
>Bob Pentecost
>HP
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>
>
>----------
>From:  Harry Lewis <harryl at VNET.IBM.COM>[SMTP:harryl at VNET.IBM.COM]
>Sent:  Thursday, February 13, 1997 7:47 AM
>To:  jmp at pwg.org
>Subject:  JMP> Resource table - Missile or Camera
>
>jmResourceTypeTC says (effectively)
>
> "The type (and amount) of resource... required to process the job...the
>  amount is updated while the job processes... etc."
>
>I was starting to wonder if we were "affecting" the job, for example, 
>number
>of copies. But I'm sure we've been very careful to avoid "missiles". Then,
>the purpose of an initial value is to establish a range for metering, like
>copy 1 of 3 has been printed - right? But, if the initial value is 
>overwritten
>per "amount is updated while the job processes...", and the MIB basically
>acts as a data base to be polled, doesn't 1 of 3 fall apart, in which case
>what good would the initial value be?
>
>Sorry if I missed something here.
>
>Harry Lewis.
>
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