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nounjobname (plural jobnames)
plural jobnames
- computingThe identifier assigned to a job by an operating system.
The user must use jobnames while performing this analysis; otherwise, this command will fail.
2003, Erdogan Madenci, Ibrahim Guven, Bahattin Kilic, Fatigue Life Prediction of Solder Joints in Electronic Packages with ANSYS, page 1491 more example
This command is used to stop (and subsequently to restart) a running task identified by its jobname.
1973, IBM technical disclosure bulletin: Volume 16, Issue 4, page 1093
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