Creating a job with arguments

Question

Hi,
This might sound really remedial, but can someone explain to me how I go about creating a job with arguments with programs. It errors out when I try to use DEFINE_PROGRAM_ARGUMENTS and when I try to use SET_JOB_ARGUMENTS_VALUE. Maybe it's the order I do it in. Any directions would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Tony

Answer 1

Hi Tony,
Almost any internal error is an Oracle bug and you should report this to support.
This is definitely not supposed to happen and I haven't seen this error before, do you have a test case throwing the error ?
Using program arguments should be fairly straightforward. Here's a simple example with two varchar2 arguments
-- create a stored procedure with two arguments
create or replace procedure myproc (arg1 in varchar2, arg2 in varchar2)
is BEGIN null; END;
-- create a program with two arguments and define both
begin
dbms_scheduler.create_program
program_name=>'myprog',
program_action=>'myproc',
program_type=>'STORED_PROCEDURE',
number_of_arguments=>2, enabled=>FALSE
dbms_scheduler.DEFINE_PROGRAM_ARGUMENT(
program_name=>'myprog',
argument_position=>1,
argument_type=>'VARCHAR2',
DEFAULT_VALUE=>'13');
dbms_scheduler.DEFINE_PROGRAM_ARGUMENT(
program_name=>'myprog',
argument_position=>2,
argument_type=>'VARCHAR2');
dbms_scheduler.enable('myprog');
end;
-- create a job pointing to a program and set both argument values
begin
dbms_scheduler.create_job('myjob',program_name=>'myprog');
dbms_scheduler.set_job_argument_value('myjob',1,'first arg');
dbms_scheduler.set_job_argument_value('myjob',2,'second arg');
dbms_scheduler.enable('myjob');
end;
Hope this helps,
Ravi.
-Ravi