Holding and releasing jobs

Jobs being processed, or waiting to be processed, are kept on a job queue in priority sequence. You can issue JES2 commands to hold and release specified jobs or all jobs currently in a system. You can also keep jobs in specified job queues or all job queues from being executed until you release them.

The following describes the JES2 commands you can issue to hold and release local jobs and queues. For information about holding and releasing jobs at another node, see “Controlling Jobs at Another Node”.

Holding and Releasing All Jobs: Use the $H A command to hold all jobs currently in the member from which the command is issued. Issuing $H A,memname holds all jobs in the MAS configuration whose affinities include the specified member name; $H A,ALL holds all jobs in the MAS configuration regardless of affinity. Use the $A A command with the same parameters to release the held jobs.
Holding and Releasing Specified Jobs: Use the $H job command to hold a specific job or a range of jobs. For example, issuing $H J5-8 places batch jobs 5, 6, 7, and 8 in hold status. The current status of the indicated jobs is displayed in the $HASP890 message.
The $A job command releases specified jobs in the same manner. The current status of the indicated jobs is displayed in the $HASP890 message.

Note: The $A job command may be used to release any held job or range of jobs, not just those held by the $H job command.
Holding and Releasing Job Queues: Use the $T JOBCLASS(x),QHELD=YES command to keep jobs in a specified job queue from being executed. To allow jobs on that queue to be executed again, issue $T JOBCLASS(x),QHELD=NO.