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• Visibility: Public
• Change Control: Stable
• Details: A user can change the provided options for a particular job if the job has not started yet.
• Usage of direct_write with qalter:
• qalter -koed $jobid.
• Usage of remove_files with qalter:
• qalter -Roe $jobid.
• If the job has already started running, it will throw the following (already existing) error :
• qalter: Cannot modify attribute while job running  Remove_Files $jobid
• Existing behavior of -koe is retained for 'd' option (will throw error if tried to modify a running job).

Interface 5: More lenient

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usage of - k sub-arguments

• Visibility: Public
• Change Control: Stable
• Details: The user can have any possible combinations of (oedn)* with only exception that n cannot be used with o/e.
• The earlier implementation of keep_files puts more restrictions on the way to use sub arguments.
  The options can be o/e/oe/eo along with -k.
• After this RFE, the following usages will be valid.
  1. -kode
     oe doen’t have to be strictly used together.
  2. koded
     Multiple occurrence of the sub-argument will not result in an illegal operation error as there is no violation of the rule.

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