Job action based on an event.

Question

Hi All,
Would anyone know a good way using Oracle Scheduler to check when all the jobs have finished in a say daily schedule and then send out a log (job_name, start_time, end_time & run_duration) for all the jobs via email?
We have setup our jobs to run on daily, weekly and monthly schedules. The schedule is a mix of independent jobs and job chains. So when say the daily schedule job finishes we want to send out the run details for all the jobs that ran that night. So this jobs run will be triggered by an event when all the jobs have completed.
Any suggestions would be of great help..
Thanks in advance
DOM

Answer 1

1) that sounds right, you can use the following code to verify calendar syntax expressions
<pre>
create or replace procedure print_schedule_dates
schedule in varchar2,
start_date in timestamp with time zone default null,
number_of_dates in pls_integer default 10
) authid current_user
is
date_after timestamp with time zone;
next_date timestamp with time zone;
actual_start_date timestamp with time zone;
begin
if start_date is null then
$IF DBMS_DB_VERSION.VER_LE_10_1 $THEN
actual_start_date := systimestamp;
$ELSE -- 10gR2 or higher
actual_start_date := dbms_scheduler.stime;
$END
else
actual_start_date := start_date ;
end if;
date_after := actual_start_date - interval '3' second;
for i in 1 .. number_of_dates
loop
dbms_scheduler.evaluate_calendar_string
(schedule, actual_start_date, date_after, next_date);
dbms_output.put_line(to_char(next_date,
'DY DD-MON-YYYY (DDD-IW) HH24:MI:SS TZH:TZM TZR'));
date_after := next_date;
end loop;
end;
exec print_schedule_dates('freq=weekly', sysdate+4, 5 )
</pre>
2) I still maintain that extra runs are harmless once you check that the report has already been sent and immediately exit. But if you really want to eliminate extra runs you should be able to set the start_date for the current job forward to the next start date. There is no one status since there will be several runs of the monitoring job and each run will be 'SUCCEEDED' (unless something fails).
Hope this helps,
Ravi.