FOR UPDATE cursor is causing Blocking/ Dead Locking issues

Question

Hi,
I am facing one of the complex issues regarding blocking / dead locking issues. Please find below the details and help / suggest me the best approach to ahead with that.
Its core Investment Banking Domain, in Our Day to day Business we are using many transaction table for processing trades and placing the order. In specific there are two main transaction table
1)     Transaction table 1
2)     Transaction table 2
These both the tables are having huge amount of data. In one of our application to maintain data integrity (During this process we do not want other users to change these rows), we have placed SELECT …………….. FOR UPDATE CURSOR on these two table and we have locked all the rows during the process. And we have batch jobs (shell scripts ) , calling this procedure , we will be running 9 times per day 1 hrs each start at 7:15AM in the morn finish it up in the eve 5PM . Let’s say. The reason we run the same procedure multiple times is, our business wants to know the voucher before its finalized. Because there is a possibility that order can be placed and will be updated/cancelled several times in a single day. So at the end of the day , we will be sending the finalized update to our client.
20 07 * * 1-5 home/bin/app_process_prc.sh >> home/bin/app1/process.out
20 08 * * 1-5 home/bin/app_process_prc.sh >> home/bin/app1/process.out
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20 11 * * 1-5 home/bin/app_process_prc.sh >> home/bin/app1/process.out
20 12 * * 1-5 home/bin/app_process_prc.sh >> home/bin/app1/process.out
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20 15 * * 1-5 home/bin/app_process_prc.sh >> home/bin/app1/process.out
20 16 * * 1-5 home/bin/app_process_prc.sh >> home/bin/app1/process.out
20 17 * * 1-5 home/bin/app_process_prc.sh >> home/bin/app1/process.out
Current Program will look like:
App_Prc_1
BEGIN
/***** taking the order details (source) and will be populate into the table ****/
CURSOR Cursor_Upload IS
SELECT col1, col2 … FROM Transaction table1 t 1, Source table 1 s
WHERE t1.id_no = t2.id_no
AND t1.id_flag = ‘N’
FOR UPDATE OF t1.id_flag;
/************* used for inserting the another entry , if theres any updates happened on the source table , for the records inserted using 1st cursor. **************/
CURSOR cursor_update IS
SELECT col1, col2 … FROM transaction table2 t2 , transaction table t1
WHERE t1.id_no = t2.id_no
AND t1.id_flag = ‘Y’
AND t1.DML_ACTION = ‘U’,’D’ -- will retrieve the records which are updated and deleted recently for the inserted records in transaction table 1 for that particular INSERT..
FOR UPDATE OF t1.id_no,t1.id_flag;
BLOCK 1
BEGIN
FOR v_upload IN Cursor_Upload;
LOOP
INSERT INTO transaction table2 ( id_no , dml_action , …. ) VALUES (v_upload.id_no , ‘I’ , … ) RETURNING v_upload.id_no INTO v_no -- I specify for INSERT
/********* Updating the Flag in the source table after the population ( N into Y ) N  order is not placed yet , Y  order is processed first time )
UPDATE transaction table1
SET id_FLAG = ‘Y’
WHERE id_no = v_no;
END LOOP;
EXCEPTION WHEN OTHER THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE( );
END ;
BLOCK 2
BEGIN -- block 2 starts
FOR v_update IN Cursor_Update;
LOOP;
INSERT INTO transaction table2 ( id_no ,id_prev_no, dml_action , …. ) VALUES (v_id_seq_no, v_upload.id_no ,, … ) RETURNING v_upload.id_no INTO v_no
UPDATE transaction table1
SET id_FLAG = ‘Y’
WHERE id_no = v_no;
END LOOP;
EXCEPTION WHEN OTHER THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE( );
END; -- block2 end
END app_proc; -- Main block end
Sample output in Transaction table1 :
Id_no | Tax_amt | re_emburse_amt | Activ_DT | Id_Flag | DML_ACTION
01 1,835 4300 12/JUN/2009 N I ( these DML Action will be triggered when ever if theres in any DML operation occurs in this table )
02 1,675 3300 12/JUN/2009 Y U
03 4475 6500 12/JUN/2009 N D
Sample output in Transaction table2 :
Id_no | Prev_id_no Tax_amt | re_emburse_amt | Activ_DT
001 01 1,835 4300 12/JUN/2009 11:34 AM ( 2nd cursor will populate this value , bcoz there s an update happened for the below records , this is 2nd voucher
01 0 1,235 6300 12/JUN/2009 09:15 AM ( 1st cursor will populate this record when job run first time )
02 0 1,675 3300 12/JUN/2009 8:15AM
003 03 4475 6500 12/JUN/2009 11:30 AM
03 0 1,235 4300 12/JUN/2009 10:30 AM
Now the issues is :
When these Process runs, our other application jobs failing, because it also uses these main 2 tranaction table. So dead lock is detecting in these applications.
Solutin Needed :
Can anyone suggest me , like how can rectify this blocking /Locking / Dead lock issues. I wants my other application also will use this tables during these process.
Regards,
Maran

Answer 1

hmmm.... this leads to a warning:
SQL> ALTER SESSION SET PLSQL_WARNINGS='ENABLE:ALL';
Session altered.
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE MYPROCEDURE
AS
   MYCOL VARCHAR(10);
BEGIN
   SELECT col2
   INTO MYCOL
   FROM MYTABLE
   WHERE col1 = 'ORACLE';
EXCEPTION
   WHEN PIERRE THEN
      NULL;
END;
SP2-0804: Procedure created with compilation warnings
SQL> show errors
Errors for PROCEDURE MYPROCEDURE:
LINE/COL                                                                          ERROR
     12/9        PLW-06009: procedure “MYPROCEDURE” PIERRE handler does not end in RAISE or RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR
     :)