Moving a job to a different job queue

There are many reasons why you might want to move a job to another queue. For example, sometimes jobs become backlogged in the queue because of a long running job. Perhaps the job's scheduled run time conflicts with a new job that has a higher priority. One way to manage this situation is to move the waiting jobs to another queue that is not as busy.

You can use either the IBM® Navigator for i interface or the character-based interface to move a job from one queue to another.

IBM Navigator for i

Expand Work Management > All Tasks > Job Queues > All Job Queues.
Right-click the job queue that contains the job and selectJobs.
Right-click the job that you want to move.
The Move window opens where you can specify the target queue.

Jobs that are waiting to run are moved to the same relative position on the target queue (for example, jobs with a job queue priority 3 are moved after any other priority 3 jobs that are waiting to run on the target queue).
Jobs that are held remain held and are placed in the same relative position on the target queue (for example, held jobs with job queue priority 3 are moved after any other priority 3 held jobs on the target queue).
Jobs that are scheduled to run are moved to the target queue and their scheduled times remain unchanged.

Character-based interface

Command: Change Job (CHGJOB)

Example: The following example moves job JOBA to job queue JOBQB.

CHGJOB JOB(JOBA) JOBQ(LIBA/JOBQB)