How to cancel all alert email in WF_NOTIFICATIONS_OUT Queue.

Question

Hi,
Could any body show how to cancel all the alert email present in WF_NOTIFICATIONS_OUT queue.
We are running 12.0.4. i have seen Doc. id. 433359.1 Tracking Workflow Notification Event Messages.
According to this before i can recreate the queue i need to process the alert emails.
I do not want these alert emails to be processed since it is a clone instance. I want it to either go to a test email account or to be discarded
completely.
I know how to send it to test email account by using setoverrde address functionality in OAM. But for that to be set i need to start the mailer (which is currently down), if i start, it will start firing these pending alert emails in WF_NOTIFICATIONS_OUT.
Kindly suggest.

Answer 1

Hi,
These documents talk about purgin WF_NOTIFICATIONS_OUT queue. But document i mentioned
says.
7. Try rebuilding the WF_NOTIFICATION_OUT queue if necessary
The wfntfqup.sql script rebuilds the WF_NOTIFICATION_OUT queue by dropping and recreating
that queue, removing pending notification messages from the WF_DEFERRED queue, and
repopulating the WF_NOTIFICATION_OUT queue from the Oracle Workflow Notification System
tables.
Wfntfqup.sql Version >=115.9
If you have implemented Oracle Alert and the WFNOTIFICATION_OUT queue contains any pending_
alert e-mail messages, those messages must be processed before the queue can be rebuilt. The
wfntfqup.sql script checks the queue for any alert e-mail messages and, if it finds any, the
script returns an error message that specifies how many alert e-mail messages are pending
and indicates that these messages must be processed before the script can run.
Kindly suggest.