Holding Queue for 3 days how will daily jobs react.

[Former Member]

Holding a Queue for 3 days how will daily jobs react? Example job run nightly at 8PM, queue is held day 1 at 4pm and released at 3PM on day 3. Will job wait on day 3 until 8pm to run or will it run when queue is released and 8PM?

[Former Member]

Hi,

First thing,the jobs run are based on submit frame and time window.

When the queues are held the active jobs at Queue held time will go to Killed or Error or overdue status and some times they will show completed status based on kind of job.

For your case if the jobs are scheduled and queues are held, after releasing the queues the jobs will get schedule based on the submit frame , if u find and jobs in console or overdue state just cancel the jobs next instance will get scheduled.

[former_member119330]

did a test on M33.90,  submit a 4 jobs group running every 2 mins,  all jobs in scheduled status.  then hold the queue till the time for 1st job run,  release it.  see the 1st job runs immediately, all the other 3 jobs staying in scheduled status as original.

so my observation is only the job which is scheduled to run during queue hold time will start immediately after release, all the other jobs will follow its original schedule.

[Former Member]

Job will run at both time once when the queue is released and at 8PM also.

the job which runs immediately after the queue is released is the job which is was supposed to run during holding of the queue. it will not run 2 times but only run once

[h_carpenter]

Hi Paul,

As far as I know, the behavior depends on quite some factors:

How are your jobs scheduled, with a submit frame? Do jobs have a time window? How many jobs are pre-submitted (how many jobs can you see scheduled in the job monitor) and most importantly, what version are you running?

How many daily jobs are we talking about?

What do you want to happen ? Say you close the queue Monday to Wednesday and have a job that runs Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, do you want the job to run three times when you open the queue or will one job suffice?

The easiest way to find out is to test this on your test system, because you certainly have some jobs with and others without time window, some with a pre-submit of 2 others with a pre-submit of 1 - these will all behave differently.

Regards,

HP