Getting assigned job id

Question

Hi,
How can I get the job id that was assigned by the reports (10g) engine (for later status checks)? I haven't found any report-running API that would return it (or any way to book a number and then passing it along with the job)
Thanks in advance,
Nik

Answer 1

What technology are you using to call the report.
i.e.
If you are using a 10G database you could using the srw package to call the report and get the job id number.
e.g. create or replace procedure event_driven_report_2 as
myPlist SRW_PARAMLIST;
myIdent SRW.Job_Ident;
BEGIN
myPlist := SRW_PARAMLIST(SRW_PARAMETER('',''));
srw.add_parameter(myPlist,'GATEWAY','http://<host:port>/reports/rwservlet');
srw.add_parameter(myPlist,'SERVER','my904win');
srw.add_parameter(myPlist,'REPORT','test.rdf');
srw.add_parameter(myPlist,'USERID','<userid>');
srw.add_parameter(myPlist,'DESTYPE','file');
srw.add_parameter(myPlist,'DESFORMAT','HTMLCSS');
srw.add_parameter(myPlist,'DESNAME','c:\temp\emp.htm');
myIdent := srw.run_report(myPlist);
EXCEPTION
when others then
raise;
END;
If you are using oracle forms to call the report
DECLARE
 repid REPORT_OBJECT; 
v_rep VARCHAR2(100); 
rep_status VARCHAR2(20);
BEGIN
 repid := FIND_REPORT_OBJECT('report4');
 v_rep := RUN_REPORT_OBJECT(repid);
END;
There are other methods available other techologies ...
Cheers
Q