Holding a job queue

When you place a job queue on hold you prevent the processing of all of the jobs that are currently waiting on the job queue. Placing a job queue on hold has no effect on jobs that are running. Additional jobs can be placed on the job queue while it is held, but they are not processed.

To place a job queue on hold, you can use IBM Navigator for i or the character-based interface.

IBM Navigator for i

Expand My Connections > connection > Work Management > Active Job Queues > Right-click the queue > Hold.

Character-based interface

Command: Hold Job Queue (HLDJOBQ)

In this example, the job queue QBATCH is placed on hold. All jobs that are not running at the time that the command is issued are held until the queue is released or cleared.

HLDJOBQ   JOBQ(QBATCH)