Creating a job and scheduling a job error in OEM

Question

Hi, Everyone,
I am trying to create and schedule a job thru OEM. In the the pl/sql block provide i have given my code like this
begin
SET SERVEROUTPUT ON;
SPOOL C:\RFV_PROFILE_REPORT.LOG APPEND;
SELECT TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'DD/MM/YY HH24:MI:SS') FROM DUAL;
EXEC PAC_RFV_PROFILE_REPORT.CALL_ALL (200910);
SELECT TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'DD/MM/YY HH24:MI:SS') FROM DUAL;
SPOOL OFF;
end;
i have created the job and scheduled it but i am getting this error:
Error # 6550
Details ORA-06550: line 2, column 5: PL/SQL: ORA-00922: missing or invalid option ORA-06550: line 2, column 1: PL/SQL: SQL Statement ignored ORA-06550: line 3, column 7: PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "C" when expecting one of the following: := . ( @ % ;
could anyone pls help as this is very urgent.
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Ah, the problem is you are confusing SQLPlus commands with PL/SQL.
SET SERVEROUTPUT ON; -- This is a SQLPlus command, not necessary here.
SPOOL C:\RFV_PROFILE_REPORT.LOG APPEND; -- This is a SQLPlus command, in PL/SQL to write out to a file you will need to call the UTL_FILE package to open a file for writing to. Except that the file you write to will appear on the database server, not your workstation, when the scheduled job runs.
SELECT TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'DD/MM/YY HH24:MI:SS') FROM DUAL; -- In PL/SQL you need to SELECT columns INTO variables FROM tables. But in fact I guess you want to write the time to file using UTL_FILE again. However, you don't really need to do this, since scheduler will log the start time and run duration itself.
EXEC PAC_RFV_PROFILE_REPORT.CALL_ALL (200910); -- This is the SQLPlus equivalent of the PL/SQL command:
BEGIN
PAC_RFV_PROFILE_REPORT.CALL_ALL (200910);
END;
SPOOL OFF; -- This is a SQLPlus command, not necessary here.
So to summarise, all you really need is:
BEGIN
PAC_RFV_PROFILE_REPORT.CALL_ALL (200910);
END;
And the scheduled job will log the start time and duration in the database, which you can find here:
SELECT * FROM USER_SCHEDULER_JOB_RUN_DETAILS