Permissions on files created using UTL_FILE package

The files created on unix using UTL_FILE package have permisisons rw- - - - - - -.(600). I want them to be created with permissions 640.(rw-r - - - - - ).i.e read access to the group also. The umask setting of the unix account of the oracle instance are 137. Is there any way to create the files with the required permissions.

So SQL*Plus is on your PC? I'm assuming you mean 'call' as in the windows cmd.exe command?
Sheesh this is like getting blood from a stone.
In that case you must be connecting via the listener and not internally.
In which case the umask comes from the umask that was set in the environment of the OS user who started the listener process.
Thats not necessarily the same as the owner of the oracle software (normally 'oracle').
If sysdamin joebloggs logs in and starts the listener manually in a shell, then the umask applied to all shadow processes started by the listener is whatever jobloggs umask was when he typed the command 'lsnrctl start'. The umask of the owner of the oracle software, or your umask, is utterly irrelevent.
So if you don't like the umask for files created by processes spawned by the listener, stop and restart the listener in a shell where you have explicitly set the umask to what you want it to be.
Really starting the listener should be scripted and the correct umask is put in the script just before the call to 'lsnrctl start'.

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begin
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