The Server Queues option is located on the Tools menu. It allows you to see the status of jobs sent to the various server queues.
To see all queues, select the All (Queue Type) radio button, choose the level of detail required (Summary or Full) and click the Refresh button. You can use the Queue Type radio buttons to view Batch and Printer queues in isolation or you can opt to view a specific queue by selecting the Specific radio button and entering a queue name.
Queues may be assigned a generic attribute. Generic Queues hold jobs until a real queue becomes idle. At that moment, the job is moved from the generic queue onto the real queue where execution may commence immediately. In effect, generic queues provide a do-as-soon-as-possible facility. Integra uses two generic queues: SYS$PRINT for print jobs and SYS$BATCH for background jobs.
Note User Settings can be used to set default batch queues and default print queues for various document types. They can also be used to withdraw access to the option.
Jobs have a Status of Executing while the job is currently running. Other possible status values are:
Pending: The job is now eligible to run and will be executed as soon as there are no other higher priority jobs waiting to be executed before it.
Holding: The job is on hold indefinitely and will not execute until released with the SET ENTRY /RELEASE command.
Holding until <time>: The job is holding until the displayed time, after which it will execute as soon as there are no other higher priority jobs waiting to be executed before it.
Completed: The job has completed successfully. The batch log files may now be checked.
Completed (empty): This print job has completed, but note that the print file was empty or non-existent.
Failed: The job failed to start properly.
Stopped: The job has been stopped by the STOP command.
*CLEANED*: When the Job Controller started, it found that the Jobs file contained references to running jobs. This should not happen, and so it has salvaged these job entries in case they were important. This may indicate that the machine crashed while jobs were running.
The Queue State indicates what jobs if any are currently on the queue. and can be one of the following…
Open a queue onto which new jobs may be added
Closed a queue onto which new jobs may NOT be added
Started a queue on which jobs may begin execution
Stopped a queue on which jobs may NOT begin execution
Empty a queue containing no jobs
Busy a queue containing executing jobs
Idle a queue containing jobs, none of which are executing
Draining a queue which is flagged to stop once empty