QMOVE(1)                   POSIX Programmer's Manual                  QMOVE(1)



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NAME
       qmove -- move batch jobs

SYNOPSIS
       qmove destination job__identifier...

DESCRIPTION
       To move a batch job is to remove the batch job from the batch queue in
       which it resides and instantiate the batch job in another batch queue.
       A batch job is moved by a request to the batch server that manages the
       batch job. The qmove utility is a user-accessible batch client that
       requests the movement of one or more batch jobs.

       The qmove utility shall move those batch jobs, and only those batch
       jobs, for which a batch job__identifier is presented to the utility.

       The qmove utility shall move batch jobs in the order in which the
       corresponding batch job__identifiers are presented to the utility.

       If the qmove utility fails to process a batch job__identifier
       successfully, the utility shall proceed to process the remaining batch
       job__identifiers, if any.

       The qmove utility shall move batch jobs by sending a Move Job Request
       to the batch server that manages each batch job. The qmove utility
       shall not exit before the batch jobs corresponding to all successfully
       processed batch job__identifiers have been moved.

OPTIONS
       None.

OPERANDS
       The qmove utility shall accept one operand that conforms to the syntax
       for a destination (see Section 3.3.2, Destination).

       The qmove utility shall accept one or more operands that conform to the
       syntax for a batch job__identifier (see Section 3.3.1, Batch Job
       Identifier).

STDIN
       Not used.

INPUT FILES
       None.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       The following environment variables shall affect the execution of
       qmove:

       LANG      Provide a default value for the internationalization
                 variables that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions
                 volume of POSIX.1-2017, Section 8.2, Internationalization
                 Variables the precedence of internationalization variables
                 used to determine the values of locale categories.)

       LC__ALL    If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of
                 all the other internationalization variables.

       LC__CTYPE  Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of
                 bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as
                 opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments).

       LC__MESSAGES
                 Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format
                 and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard
                 error.

       LOGNAME   Determine the login name of the user.

ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS
       Default.

STDOUT
       None.

STDERR
       The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.

OUTPUT FILES
       None.

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION
       None.

EXIT STATUS
       The following exit values shall be returned:

        0    Successful completion.

       >0    An error occurred.

CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS
       In addition to the default behavior, the qmove utility shall not be
       required to write a diagnostic message to standard error when the error
       reply received from a batch server indicates that the batch
       job__identifier does not exist on the server. Whether or not the qmove
       utility waits to output the diagnostic message while attempting to
       locate the job on other servers is implementation-defined.

       The following sections are informative.

APPLICATION USAGE
       None.

EXAMPLES
       None.

RATIONALE
       The qmove utility allows users to move jobs between queues.

       The alternative to using the qmove utility--deleting the batch job and
       requeuing it--entails considerably more typing.

       Since the means of selecting jobs based on attributes has been
       encapsulated in the qselect utility, the only option of the qmove
       utility concerns authorization. The -u option provides the user with
       the convenience of changing the user identifier under which the batch
       job will execute. Minimalism and consistency have taken precedence over
       convenience; the -u option has been deleted because the equivalent
       capability exists with the -u option of the qalter utility.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS
       The qmove utility may be removed in a future version.

SEE ALSO
       Chapter _3, Batch Environment Services, qalter, qselect

       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2017, Chapter _8, Environment
       Variables

COPYRIGHT
       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
       from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology --
       Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
       Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the
       Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open
       Group.  In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the
       original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The
       Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can
       be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

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