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How can I temporarily prevent a job from running (e.g. place it into a hold state)?

April 26, 2017hold Job running State temporarily

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How can I temporarily prevent a job from running (e.g. place it into a hold state)?

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The easiest way to do this is to change a job’s earliest begin time (optionally set at job submit time using the –begin option). The example below places a job into hold state (preventing its initiation for 30 days) and later permitting it to start now.