Schedule a job(execute a procedure periodically)

as I explained in subject I want to schedule a job which executes a procedure without parameters on oracle managment system. Then,I schedule job as "on interval" and "1 minutes". But when I monitor the job status, there is no change. it says submitted. what is wrong, could you explain how it is with an example.
thanks.
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You need to be a bit clearer on what you're monitoring. What "status" stays unchanged?
Some basics. When a job is submitted an entry is made into the Job Queue (a data dictionary table). The views DBA_JOBS, USER_JOBS and ALL_JOBS are views on this table.
When the job is to be executed, it is executed by a job queue process. There is a pool of these Job Processes that checks the job queue and execute jobs in the queue. Such a Job Process will have an entry in the V$SESSION virtual view.
To monitor the status of the actual executing job, requires you to look at the active sessions on the database and not at the job queue. Looking at the Job Queue is not looking at the actual process running and executing the job.
So what status is being looked at here? What status do you want, or do you expect to see?

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Tables look like this: EUL5_B060914015847Q1R1
Views look like this: EUL5_B060914015847Q1V1
These temporary tables are stored within the schema of the user who owns the workbook - not within the standard EUL schema. The format of the table is as follows:
EUL5_B060914015847Q1R1 which can be broken into six separate pieces.
These pieces are as follows:
EUL5_ B YYMMDD HHMISS Q9 R9, where
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R9 means this is the letter R followed by a number - E.g. R1, R2 and so on. This is the run number.
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BRN1 and BEN2 mean Batch Result Number 1 and 2
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RB

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