Classification:
Prologue:
Epilogue: Harry Lewis - IBM Printing Systems
I think this clarification helps. We may also need specific guidelines per
object but these should just be a formalization of what is obvious by the name
of the attribute..
------ Forwarded by Harry Lewis/Boulder/IBM on 04/01/97 05:31 PM ----
jmp-owner at pwg.org
04/01/97 10:04 AM
To: harryl at vnet.ibm.com@internet
cc: jmp at pwg.org@internet
Subject: RE: JMP> Resource table - Missile or Camera
At 18:11 02/13/97 PST, Harry Lewis <harryl at vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>Lloyd wrote:
>>>I do not think it is likely that any system will ever fill in the values for a
>>particular resource that are required to process the job before the job starts
>>processing. It would make this whole thing simpler if we changed the first
>>sentence and said "The type of resource, e.g. medium, ink, staples,
>>processing-time, color-impressions, etc. that are consumed while
>>processing the job. This value is updated while the job processes.
>>With this wording change, the resources now are stricly what is
>>consumed in processing the job.
>>Lloyd, I'd like to agree, but this gets to my original point...
>If you are using SNMP to poll the job table and want to display
>(based on your findings) "Page 1 of 3 is printing" then the
>number of pages requested (3) *has* to be filled out by the agent
>and *cannot* be overwritten as the pages begin to be consumed.
I've tried to clarify the current Internet draft 00.
The description of the JmAttributeTypeTC start off with:
Attributes may represent information about a job, such as a file-name, or a
document-name, or submission-time or completion time. Attributes may also
represent resources required, e.g., a medium or a colorant , etc. to process
the job before the job start processing OR to indicate the amount of the
resource that is being consumed while the job is processing, e.g., pages
completed or impressions completed. If both a required and a consumed value
of a resource is needed, two separate attribute enums are assigned in the
textual convention.
Is that clear enough?
>Harry Lewis
>>>