Another way of doing it is to alter the job so that the inpri is greater
than the job fence.  When you issue a showjob command make a mental note
of the job fence, usually 7 and then change the priority of the job you
just streamed.  i.e..  altjob #j####;inpri=8

Jan Gerrit Kootstra wrote:
>
> Robert,
>
> If you do the showjob, you see the joblimit and session limit at the last
> line of output. If the joblimit is lower then the number of running jobs
> plus your job.
>
> This is the explanation.
>
> Ask your system manager to increase the job limit or do it yourself if you
> are allowed to do so.
>
> The command to use is limit. The command has two parameters:
>
> LIMIT JOBLIMIT,SESSIONLIMIT
>
> I would ommit the second parameter in this case so use:
>
> Limit old_joblimit+1
>
> After your starts running, do limit oldjoblimit. This to avoid trouble with
> jobs that will start after your job finished.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jan Gerrit
>
> Robert heeft geschreven in bericht <[log in to unmask]>...
> >I have a new HP3K and do not know MPE very well. Everytime I stream a
> >job, it gets a job number and everything looks good until I do a
> >showjob and find that it's not running but in the 'Wait' state. Why
> >doesn't the job start? Can anyone venture a guess?
> >
> >thanks,
> >Robert