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Question

What I'm trying to do is to create and execute a External Job under a custom schema, CSSM.
I also asked my DBA to grant system privileges "Create External Jobs" and "Create Job" to CSSM so I can create and exec Job under CSSM.
dbms_scheduler.create_job (
  job_name =>'CSSM.LIST_FILES',
  job_type =>'EXECUTABLE',
  job_action =>'ls /disk2/app/applmgr/appltop/cssm/11.5.0/ftp/*',
  enabled => TRUE
  );The above code was executed with NO ERROR and the following statement is executed for a test drive.
begin
  dbms_scheduler.run_job('CSSM.LIST_FILES');
end;I get error message "ORA-27475: "CSSM.LIST_FILES" must be a job".
and no result from the following query.
SELECT owner, job_name, enabled FROM all_scheduler_jobs;What did I do wrong? and What am I missing here?
I'm using 11.1.0.7.
Thanks.

Answer 1

The following works for me with 11.2.0.1 on Oracle Entreprise Linux 5.2:
[oracle@lx01 ~]$ cat /tmp/lsjob.ksh
#!/bin/ksh
ls -al /tmp/?.ksh > /tmp/lsjob.log 2>&1
[oracle@lx01 ~]$ ls -al /tmp/lsjob.ksh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 51 May 15 09:15 /tmp/lsjob.ksh
[oracle@lx01 ~]$ sqlplus / as sysdba  @tj
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Sat May 15 09:17:51 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle.  All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL> select * from v$version;
BANNER
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
CORE    11.2.0.1.0      Production
TNS for Linux: Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
SQL> drop user u cascade;
User dropped.
SQL> whenever sqlerror exit failure;
SQL> create user u identified by u;
User created.
SQL> grant create session, create job, create external job to u;
Grant succeeded.
SQL> connect u/u
Connected.
SQL> begin
  2  dbms_scheduler.create_job (
  3    job_name =>'U.LIST_FILES',
  4    job_type =>'EXECUTABLE',
  5    job_action =>'/tmp/lsjob.ksh',
  6    enabled => TRUE
  7    );
  8  end;
  9  /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> show errors
No errors.
SQL> begin
  2    dbms_scheduler.run_job('U.LIST_FILES');
  3  end;
  4  /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> show errors
No errors.
SQL> exit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
[oracle@lx01 ~]$Make sure :
1. to run dbms_scheduler.run_job as job owner (CSSM) or with SYSDBA privs.
2. to call a script instead of a Unix command
3. to redirect output in executed script
See also Guide to External Jobs on 10g with dbms_scheduler e.g. scripts,batch files Guide to External Jobs on 10g with dbms_scheduler e.g. scripts,batch files