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 Destination ).

       The qmove utility shall accept one or more operands that conform to the syntax for a batch
       job_identifier (see 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  IEEE Std 1003.1-2001,  Section  8.2,
              Internationalization Variables for 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

       None.

SEE ALSO

       Batch Environment Services , qalter , qselect

COPYRIGHT

       Portions of this text are reprinted and  reproduced  in  electronic  form  from  IEEE  Std
       1003.1,  2003  Edition,  Standard  for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System
       Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003  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 .