Holding and releasing print jobs (qhld command)

You can hold and release print jobs with the qhld command.

Note: You cannot hold and release remote print jobs.

To perform this task, the following prerequisites must be met:

The printer must be physically attached to your system.
You must be the print job owner.
You must have root authority.
You must be a member of the printq group.

Use the qhld command to put a print job on hold after you sent it. You can either put a particular print job on hold, or you can hold all the print jobs on a specified print queue. To determine the print job number, enter the qchk command. The basic format of the qhld command follows:

qhld [ -r ] {[ -#JobNumber ] [ -PQueue ] [ -uUser ]}

You can hold a print job by using one of the following commands:

qhld -#JobNumber
qhld -PQueue
qhld -uUser

You can release a print job by using one of the following commands:

qhld -r -#Jobnumber
qhld -r -PQueue
qhld -r -uUser

The following list contains examples of how to use the qhld command:

To hold job number 452 on whichever print queue the job is on, type the following command:
```
qhld -#452 
```
To hold all jobs queued on print queue hp2, type the following command:
```
qhld -Php2
```
To release job number 452 on whichever print queue the job is on, type the following command:
```
qhld -#452 -r
```
To release all jobs queued on print queue hp2, type the following command:
```
qhld -Php2 -r
```