Guide to Printers and Printing

Holding and Releasing a Print Job (qhld Command)

Prerequisites

To hold or release a print job, you must be one of the following:

• Print job owner
• root
• A member of the printq group

Procedure

1. At the system prompt, type wsm, then select Printers.
2. In the Web-based System Manager Printer Queues window, use the menus to complete the steps to hold a print job or to release a print job currently on hold.

You can also hold a print job using the following commands:

smit qhld

OR

qhld -# JobNumber

OR

qhld -P Queue

OR

qhld -u User

You can release a print job using the following commands:

qhld -r -# Jobnumber

OR

qhld -r -P Queue

OR

qhld -r -u User