Description: ISO DPA: job-retention-period This attribute specifies the minimum period [in seconds] of time following the completion of job processing that the server shall keep job attributes, document attributes, and document data. The server may keep these attributes and data longer than the value of the job-retention-period attribute.

Job-retention-period specifies a lower bound on how long job attributes, document attributes and document data shall be retained by a server after printing [processing] has completed, whilst job-discard-time sets an upper bound on retention of the job and document attributes independent of whether the job is ever scheduled for, starts or completes printing [processing].

In addition to providing status information to a user after a job has completed printing [processing, the job-retention-period also provides the mechanism for retaining job's document data after it has been printed [processed], so that the job may be printed [processed] again, possibly with modified attributes, such as the job-copies component of the job-results attribute. However, the mechanism to reprint the job is outside the scope of this part of ISO/IEC 10175. [See ResubmitJob in Part 3.]