JMP> HELD vs NEEDS-ATTENTION

JMP> HELD vs NEEDS-ATTENTION

Harry Lewis harryl at us.ibm.com
Thu May 22 19:42:38 EDT 1997


Some of the job state reasons for HELD seem like they would fit better as
reasons for NEEDS-ATTENTION. For example:


  requiredResourcesNotReady           0x20
         The job is in the held state because at least one of the
         resources needed by the job, such as media, fonts, resource
         objects, etc., is not ready on any of the physical devices
         for which the job is a candidate.




     serviceOffLine                      0x400000
         The service/document transform is off-line and accepting no
         jobs.  All pending jobs are put into the held state.  This
         could be true if its input is impaired or broken.


These reasons seem categorically different than "Someone put this
job on Hold 'till midnight".


I guess it is fairly clear that state NeedsAttention should pertain to
actual DEVICE failures, but 0x400000, above, sounds like it could
be just that to me.


Harry Lewis - IBM Printing Systems



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