Pass Parameter to Job which calls a SP with the Parameter provided?

Question

ok, I have a problem that is getting the better of me.
I have an SP called sp_Rep_QTR which expects the following parameters @stardate,@Endate.
Now what I want to do is the following,
Create a Job which will EXEC the sp_Rep_QTR at a time(@active_start_time ) provided and pass the @stardate,@Endate parameters to the SP .
The @stardate,@Endate parameters will be passed to a SP which will create the Job - These are passed from a web page.
I'm completely in over my head on this one so any help would be great.
Thanks..

Answer 1

One way of hacking this problem is by dynamically updating the job step which executes the stored procedure to include the parameters the user provided.  You can do so by using
msdb.dbo.sp_update_jobstep.
So for example, you could create a job named "Test job" and in that job the first step would be to execute your stored procedure.  You would then use the following code to update that step at run time:
execute msdb.dbo.sp_update_jobstep
@job_name = N'Test job',
@step_id = 1,
@command = 'execute my_proc @my_variable = ''my_value'''
You'd then use sp_start_job like so:
execute msdb.dbo.sp_start_job @job_name = 'Test job'
Your job would then execute using the value provided at run time for the @my_variable parameter.