Creating and executing a job inside oracle

Question

I must launch a batch inside oracle, i have defined program and job like this
begin
dbms_scheduler.create_program
program_name => 'PGM2',
program_type => 'EXECUTABLE',
program_action => 'C:\GLOBE\CPONYIN.BAT',
enabled => TRUE,
comments => 'CREA FILE UTENTE IN INPUT PER ONYX'
end;
begin
dbms_scheduler.create_job
job_name => 'JOB2',
program_name => 'PGM2',
comments => 'Move FILE ONYX IN INPUT',
enabled => TRUE
end;
Are they correct ?
what can I do for launching the job JOB2?
I have tried :
BEGIN
DBMS_JOB.RUN( job => JOB2);
END
But oracle answers : PLS-00201 Identifier JOB2 must be declared
Thanks for your answers

Answer 1

Hi,
dbms_scheduler and dbms_job are two different package and create different types of jobs. In 10gR1 and up you shoulod not have to use dbms_job at all since dbms_scheduler is its replacement.
To run a dbms_scheduler job immediately you can use dbms_scheduler.run_job which is documented in the PL/SQL packages guide under dbms_scheduler .
Hope this helps,
Ravi.
PS you will run into other issues with your example. A bat file cannot be run directly. You must do e.g.
c:\win32\cmd.exe /q /c C:\GLOBE\CPONYIN.BAT
which is done by setting number_of_arguments to 3 in create_program
and after doing create_job (enabled=>false), you will have to call set_job_argument_value 3 times with '/q', '/c' and 'C:\GLOBE\CPONYIN.BAT' and then call dbms_scheduler.enable to enable the job .