This object permits the management application to display the previous job state to the user without having to monitor all job state changes. For example, when a job completes, the previous state indicates what the job was doing just before completing. If the job was printing, then the completion was normal. If the previous state was terminating, then the completion was abnormal. Another example, is when a job is paused. The xcmJobPreviousState indicates the state that the job was in when the job was paused. ISO DPA: job-previous-state This attribute identifies the state of the job (pending, processing, held, etc.) before the last change of job state. Standard values are defined in the specification for the current-job-state [xcmJobCurrentState] job-status attribute. See textual-conventions.