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Halt DTS Job

To halt an ongoing delivery job, right-click and select Halt DTS deliveries in the context menu.

1. The delivery jobs can be pure deliveries to a scalability server's staging library. They can also be implicit deliveries initiated by checking the option Store packages in the scalability server's staging library on the Job options tab, for jobs going to target(s) downstream of a scalability server.

   If the option Use delivery calendar has also been checked, the job(s), or job container, can be manually halted from the context menu, but the automatic calendar control of the halting/resuming of deliveries to scalability servers will then be disabled. A popup will present the choices:

   • Yes: Halt will be ordered and the name of the delivery calendar will be grayed out on the Job Options tab.
   • No: the intended Halt operation will be cancelled.
2. Jobs to NOS-less agents using DTS is also a delivery that can be halted, and resumed.

   The option Use delivery calendar applies also here.

   An ordered halt will disable the automatic calendar control of the halting/resuming of deliveries. The note above on the popup applies here, too.

3. Another case of implicit delivery takes place, when jobs are set up to agents downstream of a scalability server, the option Store Package in the staging library on the Job options tab is not checked, and the software referred to in the job is not present in the staging library.

   The delivery takes place to a temporary staging area, which is cleaned up afterwards.

In no other case the setting of Use delivery calendar will have any effect, even if this option is not disabled.

In the three cases above, manual Halt/Resume will be enabled (regardless of the setting of Use delivery calendar).

If you try to halt a job container with delivery jobs containing a reference to a delivery calendar, a pop-up will present the choices:

• Yes: Halt will be ordered, the name of the delivery calendar will be grayed out on the Job Options tab for all jobs containing a reference to a delivery calendar, and the Use delivery calendar box will be unchecked.
• No: the intended Halt operation will be cancelled.

The job cannot be halted until it has reached ordered state.

In waiting state, it is too early to order halt.

If you have selected Halt deliveries for a job in the container, or the whole container, this will lead to the Halt in progress state, followed by the Halted state.

The job container will be in Halt in progress state, if at least one job is in that state, the rest of the jobs are either OK or Error and no job is in any other in-progress state.

The job container will be in Halted state, if at least one job is halted and the rest of the jobs are either OK or Error.

If any job is in an in-progress state, apart from Halt in progress, the whole container will be in that in-progress state.