Restrictions and Consequences
The following fields can be changed any time, including when the job is running.
- autokill
- Duration job runs before being killed automatically
- fstokens
- FairShare tokens; when changed, moves the job to the proper FairShare bucket
- xpriority
- Execution priority
- jobname
- Can only be changed by job's owner
- jpp
- Job placement policy
- legalexit
- If the job is not running, the exit status is checked again with the new legal values; if it does not match, the job is invalidated
- numa
- Job placement non-uniform memory access policy; Linux only
- preemptable
- Flag indicating the job can be preempted
- priority
- Schedule priority
- systemjob
- Flag that indicates it is a system job; not normally modified this way
- xdur
- Expected duration
The following fields cannot be changed while the job is running. They can be changed
by the job's owner or an administrator.
- autoflow
- Flag that indicates a job should be skipped; if changed, job is moved to proper bucket
- nojournal
- Flag that turns off journal entries for the job
- res
- Resources; if changed for a scheduled job, the job is re-queued
- scheddate
- Date/time job was scheduled
The following fields cannot be changed while the job is running. They can only be
changed by the job's owner (not an administrator).
- autoforget
- Flag that indicates the job will be forgotten after completion
- cmd
- Command line of job; job is invalidated if changed
- deadline
- The desired date/time the job should be completed
- dir
- File system path where job runs; job is invalidated if changed
- env
- Named environment of job; job is invalidated if changed
- group
- FairShare group; if changed for a scheduled job, the job is re-queued
- jobclass
- Resource group; if changed for a scheduled job, the job is re-queued
- jobproj
- Project associated with job; if changed for a scheduled job, the job is re-queued
- res,aux
- Aux resources; if changed for a scheduled job, the job is re-queued
- submithost
- Host from which job is submitted
- tool
- Name of tool associated with command
Modifying job fields will be restricted if a VovUserGroup named System:jobmodify exists. If this VovUserGroup exists, only users who are a member of the group will be able to modify job fields. Users not in the VovUserGroup will receive an authorization error.