Datapump - export job problem

Question

Just started playing with this new feature of 10g. I created a new export job through Enterprise Manager - database control. Now when I tried to delete it, its giving me an error message, which is as follows,
Error
The specified job, job run or execution is still active. It must finish running, or be stopped before it can be deleted. Filter on status 'Active' to see active executions
I stopped this process successfully so many times (even I don't remember now, how many times) through database control but when I try to again delete run, it gives me the same error message.
I logged on SQLPlus and checked that this process is still active as it has an entry into DBA_DATAPUMP_JOBS view. I deleted the corresponding table and the entry is gone from the view but when I checked in the database control, the job execution is still there with a status of "Stop Pending"
Can somebody help me in this, I mean how can I delete that job from the database control. If you need any other information to help me, I am more than willing to provide the same.
The job is owned by system. My platform is Windows XP Professional.
Any help is greatly appreciated as I am doing different things for last 2 days with no success.
Regards,

Answer 1

Hi Bhargava,
What do you get when you execute this block -
set serverout on;
declare
myhandle number;
begin
myhandle := dbms_datapump.attach('JOB_NAME','JOB_OWNER');
dbms_output.put_line(myhandle);
dbms_datapump.detach(myhandle);
end;
If this block executes without error and prints out a number, then you can try to stop the job with this block:
declare
myhandle number;
begin
myhandle := dbms_datapump.attach('JOB_NAME','JOB_OWNER');
dbms_output.put_line(myhandle);
dbms_datapump.stop_job(myhandle, 1,0,0 );
end;
Here is an article with more information on the pl/sql API to dbms_datapump:
http://www.devx.com/dbzone/Article/30355
Here is the dbms_datapump documentation:
http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14258/d_datpmp.htm
-Natalka
http://toolkit.rdbms-insight.com