Changing the Priority of Processes

The Process app offers you an option that allows you to change the priority of a process. Five priority levels can be shown for a process: Idle, Low, Medium, High and Urgent. Use the Change priority control to change the priority of processes that are not in a final state (Created, Pending, Running, Paused).

Note the following limitations for changing the priority of processes:

• If the priority of a process can be changed is defined by the process provider. Therefore, you will see the Change Priority feature only for some processes; depending on the processes shown in the Process app, the Change priority feature might not be applicable to any process.

  Currently, only Distributed Processing Jobs support the Change Priority feature.

• The Process app only shows the priorities that have been defined by the source system of the process. Therefore, only a subset of the priorities might be displayed for a process or no priority at all.

• The change process priority feature is only available for administrators or members of a group with enabled Master of Jobs entitlement.

• The Change priority control is associated with the Priority column, which is hidden by default.

• You can only change the priority of one process at a time, multi-selection is not supported.

To change the priority of a process:

1. Show the Priority column.

   1. Click the Display Options drop-down arrow.

   2. Select the Priority check box.

   3. Click an area outside of the menu to apply your changes.

2. Click on the Priority of a process.

   For processes that support changing the priority, a context menu opens.

3. Select the priority you want to assign from the context menu.

   

   The new priority is assigned to the process.