Jon Backus wrote:
> If I have jobs in a DEFER status and I take my HP3000
> down, is there a way to bring the box back up that will retain
> them in the input queue, such as a START RECOVERY?

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With a bit of manual intervention from SM, MPEX can do this.

The %savejobs command allows you to specify (with MPEX's usual
robust selection criteria) which WAIT jobs to save. It builds
a PRIV file (whose name you specify) and saves the jobs there.
There's a complementary command (%restorejobs ?) to submit
them from the PRIV file at a later time.

(If you want the existing jobs aborted, I believe you have
to do that with a separate command.)
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--Glenn Cole
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