How do I submit an Oracle concurrent request from inside a page within Apex

Question

Hi all,
Have an app that basically loads an interface table.I want to call a concurrent job from the page within my apex app that will submit the concurrent job in Oracle when I press the submit button. The only parameter is group id and typically end user enters 101010.
I am unsure of the syntax.....
the dba gave me this as an example but I believe its incomplete and not sure how to complete it or call it. I tried just creating a process to execute after submit but it errors out as in_user_id, in_resp_id and in_appl_id must be declared. Logic tells me I have to provide those somehow but I dont see how it fits into the submit request function.....
BEGIN
fnd_global.apps_initialize (in_user_id, in_resp_id, in_appl_id);
x_request_id := fnd_request.submit_request ('XXBG'
,'XXBGBURSTPAY'
,NULL
,NULL
,FALSE
,in_outfile
,'XXBG_TOP'
,'xxbg_pydepadv_ctl.xml'
COMMIT;
Edited by: DSULLIVAN on Apr 13, 2010 10:33 AM

Answer 1

This is really not an APEX issue, but a fundamental EBS one.
You need to find out which respsonsibility and request group your concurrent program is in, and the user who is submitting the request. You can look in FND_USER for the USER_ID, FND_APPLICATION for teh RESP_APPL_ID and FND_RESPONSIBILITY for the RESP_ID. This call sets up the global security context, so if you are calling it from outside of an authenticated EBS session, it doesn't know who you are.
Then you just call those - you can store them as application variables or jsut hardcode them.
So here is a sample call:
begin
  fnd_global.apps_initialize(1, 50000, 275);
end;So just hardcode it for now - later you can get fancier.