DBMS_schedular.create_job procedure

Question

HI ,
I am trying write a scheduler for one of the Pl/SQL package...
Here is the package i m trying to schedule...This works absolutely fine
  --- Spec
create or replace package my_pack
as
begin
procedure common_proc(var_num number);
end;
  --- Body
create or replace package body my_pack
as
  procedure insert_tbl1(v_num number)
   is
    begin
       insert into tbl1 values (....)
          select ....from src_tbl where col1 = v_num and ...and...;
   end;
   procedure insert_tbl2(v_num number)
    is
    begin
       insert into tbl2 values (....)
          select ....from src_tb1 where col1 = v_num and ...and...;
   end;      
   procedure insert_tbl3(v_num number)
    is
    begin
       insert into tbl3 values (....)
          select ....from src_tb1 where col1 = v_num  and ...and...;
   end;
   procedure insert_tbl4(v_num number)
    is
    begin
       insert into tbl4 values (....)
          select ....from src_tb1 where col1 = v_num  and ...and...;
   end;  
  procedure common_proc(var_num number )
  as
   begin
        insert_tbl1(var_num);
        insert_tbl2(var_num);
        insert_tbl3(var_num);
        insert_tbl4(var_num);
   end;            
end my_pack;
Here is the procedure for scheduling the above package...
  create or replace procedure  schedule(s_num in number )
     as
   var_1 varchar2; -- sqlstr
   var_2 varchar2;  -- v_jobn
   begin
     var_1 := 'my_pack.common_proc('''||s_num||''');';
     dbms_output.put_line(var_1);
     var_2 := 'my_pack_'||to_char(s_num);
     dbms_output.put_line('job name :'||var_2);
     dbms_schedular.create_job(
                                   job_name => var_2
                                  ,job_type => 'PLSQL_BLOCK'
                                  ,job_action => 'begin '||var_1||' end; '
                                  ,start_date => NULL
                                  ,repeat_interval => NULL
                                  ,enabled => TRUE
                                  ,comments => null
                                  ,auto_drop => TRUE 
   exception
     when others then
     raise;
   end schedule;
When i compile the above schedule procedure, i get the following error
   PLS-00201: identifier 'DBMS_SCHEDULER' must be declared
ANy idea why ???Next question,
- how would i test this scheduler?? do i need to run the procedure with passing the parameter or how would i know whether schedular is kicked off or running or any place i can i see the logs ???
- If you have any idea of making this procedure schedule to write in a efficient way, please feel free to suggest me
last thing, i m tottally new to schedular, this is the first time i m using it..
Your suggestions or advice or help is greatly appriciated!!!
thank you so much !!!

Answer 1

I think you are missing the privileges.
GRANT CREATE JOB,MANAGE SCHEDULER to <user>;
They have explained scheduler here : http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14258/d_sched.htm#i1000363
Since you are setting the start_date to null, the job will be executed as soon as it gets created.
You can check the status of the run by:
SELECT * FROM USER_SCHEDULER_JOB_RUN_DETAILS
WHERE job_name = <>
ORDER BY log_Date DESC;
You can see the running jobs by:
select job_name
, session_id
, running_instance
, elapsed_time
, cpu_used
from USER_SCHEDULER_RUNNING_JOBS;
Note that there are "DBA" counterparts of these tables too.