Even if you want to distribute a package immediately, you cannot do so if another distribution job is on standby or executing. In such a case, you can still send the urgent package ahead of other jobs by suspending the other jobs and making the urgent package into a job to be distributed before other packages. If the destination is not suspended, the desired job will be distributed in the same order as a normal job.

To send a job to a suspended destination, on the Job Distribution Attributes page, select Distribute during job creation. The job for which Distribute is selected is displayed in Remote Installation Manager in a different color from that used for jobs that were not selected. To use a command to execute job distribution automatically even when the destination is suspended, use one of the following two methods:

• Specify in the parameter file or the dcminst command's argument that the job is be distributed to even a suspended destination, and execute the command.
• Using Remote Installation Manager, create and save the job for which Distribute is selected beforehand, and then execute that job with the dcmjexe command.

This section explains the relationship between distribution of a job to a suspended destination and other operations.

Relationship to multicast distribution

Because a job for which multicast distribution is specified cannot be suspended, selecting whether or not to distribute to a suspended destination a job for which multicast distribution is specified has no effect.

Relationship to split distribution

A job for which split distribution is specified cannot be distributed to a suspended destination.