PROLOG This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux. NAME
qmove - move batch jobs SYNOPSIS qmove destination jobidentifier ... DESCRIPTION To move a batch job is to remove the batch job from the batch queue in which it resides and instantiate the batch job in another batch queue. A batch job is moved by a request to the batch server that manages the
batch job. The qmove utility is a user-accessible batch client that requests the movement of one or more batch jobs. The qmove utility shall move those batch jobs, and only those batch jobs, for which a batch jobidentifier is presented to the utility. The qmove utility shall move batch jobs in the order in which the cor‐ responding batch jobidentifiers are presented to the utility. If the qmove utility fails to process a batch jobidentifier success‐ fully, the utility shall proceed to process the remaining batch jobidentifiers, if any. The qmove utility shall move batch jobs by sending a Move Job Request to the batch server that manages each batch job. The qmove utility shall not exit before the batch jobs corresponding to all successfully processed batch jobidentifiers have been moved. OPTIONS None. OPERANDS The qmove utility shall accept one operand that conforms to the syntax for a destination (see Destination ). The qmove utility shall accept one or more operands that conform to the syntax for a batch jobidentifier (see Batch Job Identifier ). STDIN Not used. INPUT FILES None. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES The following environment variables shall affect the execution of qmove: LANG Provide a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions volume of
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 8.2, Internationalization Vari‐ ables for the precedence of internationalization variables used to determine the values of locale categories.)
LCALL If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all the other internationalization variables. LCCTYPE Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of
bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as
opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments). LCMESSAGES Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error. LOGNAME Determine the login name of the user. ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS Default. STDOUT None. STDERR The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages. OUTPUT FILES None. EXTENDED DESCRIPTION None. EXIT STATUS The following exit values shall be returned: 0 Successful completion. >0 An error occurred. CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS In addition to the default behavior, the qmove utility shall not be required to write a diagnostic message to standard error when the error reply received from a batch server indicates that the batch jobidenti‐ fier does not exist on the server. Whether or not the qmove utility waits to output the diagnostic message while attempting to locate the
job on other servers is implementation-defined. The following sections are informative. APPLICATION USAGE None. EXAMPLES None. RATIONALE The qmove utility allows users to move jobs between queues.
The alternative to using the qmove utility-deleting the batch job and
requeuing it-entails considerably more typing. Since the means of selecting jobs based on attributes has been encapsu‐ lated in the qselect utility, the only option of the qmove utility con‐
cerns authorization. The -u option provides the user with the conve‐ nience of changing the user identifier under which the batch job will execute. Minimalism and consistency have taken precedence over conve‐
nience; the -u option has been deleted because the equivalent capabil‐
ity exists with the -u option of the qalter utility. FUTURE DIRECTIONS None. SEE ALSO Batch Environment Services, qalter, qselect COPYRIGHT Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technology Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html . IEEE/The Open Group 2003 QMOVE(1P)