The Modify dialog box is composed of 4 distinct regions: (1) Job id(s) region (2) Job Attributes region (3) Other Job Attributes region (4) Command Buttons region ================= WORKING FRAMEWORK ================= The framework when working under the Modify dialog box is to first manipulate the appropriate widget to set the replacement value or additional value for a job attribute, and then to click on any of the command buttons at the bottom of the dialog box to invoke an action, particularly "modify". ================= JOB ID(S) REGION ================= This shows the job id(s) whose attributes are currently being modified. ============== JOB ATTRIBUTES ============== Job Attribute How to Operate ------------- -------------- Job Name Type in the new name of the job on the Job Name entry widget. You can use left, right arrow keys, and mouse highlight to select and overwrite or delete text. Priority Type in the new job priority value (between -1024 and 1023) on the Priority spinbox, or click on the scrollbar arrows to increment up or down the valid spinbox values. Account Name Type in the new account name of the job (usually used for cpu charging) on the Account Name entry widget. Execution Time Click on the button "Later at" if you want to specify a new date/time when the job should be eligible for queueing and execution. Mail Click on the command button, "email addrs", to specify the new list of addresses to notify about job status. Click to toggle on any of the 3 check buttons, "job aborts", "job begins execution", "job terminates", to specify the replacement condition when email should be sent out. Output Click on the various radio buttons to indicate whether the job output should be merged to stdout, to stderr, or to neither stdout or stderr. Click on the various check buttons to toggle the conditions of retaining the stdout files and/or stderr files in the execution host. Type in "Stdout File Name/ Hostname" and "Stderr File Name/Hostname" for the output files for the job. NOTE: The accompanying "Stdout File Name.." and "Stderr File Name.." buttons will bring up the File Selection dialog for a point-and-click way of specifying the filenames. Resources Move the mouse and button click the "resource" input entry to select a resource name, and in the second input field enter the resource value. When both entries have been filled out, click "add" (or simply hit ). Watch as your input gets loaded into the "Resources" listbox. Entries of the latter can be deleted by selecting an entry, and then clicking the accompanying "delete" button. If you want to modify an entry in the listbox, then select the entry via mouse, which would result in its values to be loaded into the input entries, then change the values of the input entries, and then click the accompanying "update" button. You can use the key or to traverse the input entries, to go back to a previous input entry field. You can use the left and right keys to move left or right within an entry field, highlight to select a character and type any key to overwrite the selected text, or type delete, backspace to delete a selected or un-selected text. The "help" pull down button will give you a description of the different resources that can be requested when submitting jobs, as according to architecture type. NOTE: The list of valid resources for the "resource" input entry can be specified via the *jobResourceList xpbs resource. Hold Types Click on the appropriate toggle button and radio button to update the list of hold types for the job. The hold types can be user, other, system, or n (no hold types or Clear all). No effect if the "Place" radio button is clicked but no hold type is selected. Job Dependency Click on the "job dependency" command button under the "OTHER OPTIONS" box to bring up a dialog box for updating the synccount, syncwith, on, after, afterok, afternotok, afterany, before, beforeok, beforenotok, beforeany depend attributes of the job. File Staging Click on the "file staging" command button under the "OTHER OPTIONS" box to bring up a dialog box for updating the stagein and stageout attributes of the job. Misc Click on the "misc" command button under the "OTHER OPTIONS" box to update the checkpoint attribute, rerunnable attribute, list of Unix shells, user names, and groups to use when executing the job. =============== COMMAND BUTTONS =============== At the bottom of the Modify dialog box is a row of command buttons. Click on "confirm modify" if you are satisfied with the widget settings and would want to proceed with the job alteration. Click on "cancel" if you don't want to modify the job at this time. This is also the default action (as indicated by the sunken look of the button) when the key is pressed. Click on "reset options to default" if you want to reset the widget values (i.e. job attribute values) to default values (usually null) for the Modify dialog box only. This does not reset the values for "job dependency", "file staging", and "misc" widgets. This is useful for restarting the process of updating job attributes.