Ordered list
The ordered list refers to the order in which jobs appear on the job queue. The availability, priority, and the date and time values help determine the order of jobs on the job queue.
The job number is not used to determine where the job appears in the job queue, nor does it affect when the job is run.
- Availability
- Refers to the status of the job on the job queue. The possible values in order are waiting, scheduled, and held.
- Priority
- Refers to the priority the job has on the job queue. The possible priority values are 0-9, with 0 being the highest priority. In cases where the jobs are scheduled jobs, the priority does not play a part in the order of the jobs on the job queue. For instance, if two jobs are scheduled to run at 12:00:00, the jobs are ordered by their position in the job table.
- Date and time
- Refers to the date and time of the job:
- If the job is scheduled, the date and time refers to when the job is scheduled to run.
- If the job is not scheduled, the date and time refers to when the job entered the system.
There are cases where the date and time end up being a date and time manually set to properly position a moved job to a particular job queue.
Parent topic:
Job queuesRelated concepts
How a job queue works How jobs are taken from a job queue Job queue entry How job queues are allocated to a subsystem Multiple job queues How jobs are taken from multiple job queues Job queue security