Help on ORA-06550 & PLS-00363 Error while running a procedure from a packag

Question

Greeting All,
I ran the following procedure from a package on a command line in sqlplus:
SQL> exec QUALITY_ASSURANCE.COPY_SW_RESOURCES(2009,2010,9508);Where '2009' is the old fiscal year, '2010' is the new fiscal year and '9508' is the error code passed from the calling program. But, I received the following error messages:
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-06550: line 1, column 53:
PLS-00363: expression '9508' cannot be used as an assignment target
ORA-06550: line 1, column 7:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
Any thoughts, suggestions and/or advice to resolve these errors.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Orchid wrote:
Justin,
Thanks for your response and information. Yes, Theoa was correct the 3rd parameter is an OUT variable, and it is a numeric field. The procedure was called by a form as follows:
QUALITY_ASSURANCE.COPY_SW_RESOURCES(:BLK_CONTROL.FROMFY,:BLK_CONTROL.TOFY,V_ERR);But the form does not work so I am trying to isolate the problem by running the procedure by itself in sqlplus to make sure there is no problem with the procedure.
Yesterday, I was able to run the procedure in Toad for Oracle to a successful completion by providing the 3 parameters: (2009, 2010, null). Just wonder why I cannot run the same procedure with the same parameters on a command line in sqlplus as follows:
exec QUALITY_ASSURANCE.COPY_SW_RESOURCES(2009,2010,null);So, if I understand your suggestion correctly, in order to run the procedure with the 3 parameter successfully in sqlplus,
I have to declare the 3rd parameter in PL/SQL. That is to create a PL/SQL file as suggested and run the file, correct? CORRECT!