Update maximum time for job in the queue 1

[johngiggs]

Is there any way to update the maximum time for a job that is in the queue? I have the maximum time for one job set to a certain time and it is fine for every day of the week except Saturday, so I tried creating another job to update the maximum time on Saturdays, however, I did not realize that the command I was trying to use didn't work for tjobs.

The command is:

cautil alter tjob id=jsetname,jobname,01 maxtime=09:00:00

It only works for jobs, not jobs in the tracking queue. I find it hard to believe that the maxtime cannot be updated while the job is in the queue, but maybe that is in fact the case. Does anyone have any idea as to whether or not this is possible? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

John

 

[JonnoGT]

Can't be done with the MaxRun Time. This SLA is held in the statistics page of the tjob and cannot be altered once it's in the tracking file.
Not sure why this is!
You can only alter the Mustcomptime or Must Start Time SLA's.

You could probably do something with event policy to capture the job started message and watch for a completed message, but it might be a bit messy.

 

[johngiggs]

Thanks, Jonno. Have a star. I hoped it was possible, but apparently it's not.

John