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Perform the requested action on a list of one or more job(s). Based on the type of job and the current state of execution, the action may not be successfully executed. The final result of the attempted actions for each specified job is returned in the status array of the response. See Job Manager for more information.

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Input Parameter Description

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array of longs
Jobs to be modified.
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string
Action to be performed on the jobs specified by job_ids.The supported values are:
  • cancel
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map of string to strings
Optional parameters.The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

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Output Parameter Description

The Kinetica server embeds the endpoint response inside a standard response structure which contains status information and the actual response to the query. Here is a description of the various fields of the wrapper:
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String
‘OK’ or ‘ERROR’
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String
Empty if success or an error message
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String
‘admin_alter_jobs_response’ or ‘none’ in case of an error
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String
Empty string
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JSON or String
This embedded JSON represents the result of the /admin/alter/jobs endpoint:Empty string in case of an error.