Can not see running jobs from, package

Question

I have a problem with processing parallely runing jobs:
I am creating another immediately runned jobs in a main job. Those two parallel jobs (2 loads from different databases) have to be finished before I run next operation (working out loaded data). Problem is that, after starting those 2 parallel jobs, I can not see them by select from ALL_SCHEDULER_RUNNING_JOBS that is executed immediately after I create those jobs in a package. If I take a look into ALL_SCHEDULER_RUNNING_JOBS from anonymous statement I can see all my running jobs. Let's sum it up:
1/ Start of main job
2/ Running 2 immediately created jobs (load data)
3/ Checking in loop if jobs created in step 2 are still running
3.1/ Jobs are running (ALL_SCHEDULER_RUNNING_JOBS check) - sleep for a
while - It never happens - can't see any running jobs from select executed in
package but can see them in
anonymous statement
3.2/ Jobs finished - start processing loaded data
Can somebody help me with this task?
Thanks alot!
Jakub

Answer 1

Hi,
There is no reason a job should be visible from an anonymous block but not from inside a job. There are two things that may be happening here.
- jobs scheduled to run immediately my not start running as soon as they are created/enabled, you may need to wait a bit before they start running (they will appear in all_scheduler_jobs immediately but maybe not all_scheduler_running_jobs immediately)
- you may be running into privilege issues. Is the user that executes the anonymous block the same as the user that the job is running as (the job's schema) ? If not maybe the job user does not have privileges to see the job (you can grant alter on the job to the user to ensure this).
Can you see the jobs in the all_scheduler_jobs view from within the job with status RUNNING ? If you can see jobs in all_scheduler_jobs as RUNNING but not in all_scheduler_running_jobs then this is a bug of some sort.
Thanks,
Ravi.