Dbms_scheduler job on windows

Question

Hi
Oracle 11gR2 on windows.
I am trying to schedule a rman backup job through dbms_scheduler however backup doesnt happen. Note that backup works if I initiate manually (by double clicking hotbackup.bat)
Same scripts work in 10g database, not sure why it doesnt work in 11g.
1-) Create schedule
BEGIN sys.dbms_scheduler.create_schedule( 
repeat_interval => 'FREQ=DAILY;BYHOUR=20;BYMINUTE=0;BYSECOND=0', 
start_date => systimestamp, 
comments => 'schedule for the backup job', 
schedule_name => 'my_backup_job_schedule');
END;
/2-) Create job
BEGIN sys.dbms_scheduler.create_job(  
job_name => 'daily_backup_job', 
job_type => 'EXECUTABLE', 
job_action => 'E:\rman\script\hotbackup.bat',
schedule_name => 'my_backup_job_schedule', 
job_class => 'DEFAULT_JOB_CLASS', 
comments => 'Job which backup the db', 
auto_drop => FALSE, 
enabled => TRUE);
END;
/3-)hotbackup.bat
c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c rman target sys/sys @E:\rman\script\backup.rman LOG=E:\rman\log\rman.log 
exit /B 0 4-)backup.rman
run {
set command id to 'rman_backup';
crosscheck archivelog all;
crosscheck backupset;
delete noprompt obsolete;
delete noprompt expired backupset;
BACKUP AS COMPRESSED BACKUPSET DATABASE FORMAT 'E:/rman/backupset/database_%d_%u_%s_%T' PLUS ARCHIVELOG FORMAT 'E:/rman/backupset/archivelog_%d_%u_%s_%T';
backup current controlfile format 'E:/rman/backupset/control_%d_%u_%s_%T';
crosscheck backupset;
crosscheck archivelog all;
delete noprompt obsolete;
delete noprompt expired backupset;
delete noprompt expired archivelog all;
}

Answer 1

When running a Windows shell script, your job_action needs to be the command interpreter, with arguments that name the script it should run.exec dbms_scheduler.create_job(-
job_name=>'batchfile',-
job_type=>'executable',-
job_action=>'c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe',-
number_of_arguments => 2,-
enabled=>false,-
auto_drop=>false)
exec dbms_scheduler.set_job_argument_value('batchfile',1,'/c');
exec dbms_scheduler.set_job_argument_value('batchfile',2,'c:\tmp\batchfile.bat');
exec dbms_scheduler.enable('batchfile')
select job_name, status, error#, actual_start_date, additional_info
from user_scheduler_job_run_details where job_name='BATCHFILE' order by actual_start_date; You might want to start with a very simple batch file.