Running unix scipt with DBMS_SCHEDULER

Question

Hi,
I am trying to test unix script with DBMS_SCHEDULER.
SCHEDULAR execute the script without any error messgae if my job_action is "/tmp/test.ksh".
But if I am providing command line argument to script in job_acrion (/tmp/test.ksh -F), it gives follwing error message.
ORA-27369: job of type EXECUTABLE failed with exit code: No such file or directory
begin
DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB
job_name => 'test_unix_script',
job_type => 'EXECUTABLE',
job_action => '/tmp/test.ksh',
job_class => 'DEFAULT_JOB_CLASS',
enabled => FALSE,
auto_drop => FALSE,
comments => 'test_unix_script.'
END;
and my script test script is
#!/bin/ksh
f_force=n
echo SUCCESS > /tmp/test_out
while getopts :F opt
do
case $opt in
F) f_force=y ;;
?) echo Invalid option
return 1 ;;
esac
done
if [[ $f_force = "n" ]] ; then
echo "Are you sure you want to continue (y/n) ? \c"
read x
echo
if [[ `echo $x | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` != "y" ]] ; then
return 1
fi
fi
echo SUCCESS >> /tmp/test_out
I don't want use "dbms_scheduler.set_job_argument_value".
Please confirm if we can pass command line argument to job_acrion. If yes, How we can pass command line argument in DBMS_SCHEDULER?
Thanks,

Answer 1

Hi,
The error the Scheduler is throwing is accurate. It is looking for a file called "/tmp/test.ksh -F" and not finding it.
What you want to do is leave the job action as "/tmp/test.ksh" and set number of arguments=>1
then call
dbms_scheduler.set_job_argument('test_unix_script',1,'-F')
and then enable the job.
This will correctly pass "-F" in as an argument and not part of the executable name (remember that executable names can have spaces in them).
Hope this helps,
Ravi.
PS Also note that the Scheduler has its own forum
Scheduler