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Initial Job States
Qube jobs can be submitted in one of two initial states: pending and blocked. Pending is the default and signals the Supervisor that the job may be started at any time. Blocked tells the system to hold the job until it is unblocked. To specify the start state, a developer/user may specify it through the job structure in the API, or through the command line:
Example:
% qbsub --state blocked ls