Shared Parameter Issue in Reqeust sets

Question

Hi Friends,
I am having an issue with the shared paramter when running a request set. I have two cps in the request set.
CP1 has a parameter which has to be unique and so I chose the parameter to be
select FU||to_char(sysdate,'DDMMYYYYHH24MISS') from dual.
This is the same parameter which will be passed to the second CP and is a shared paramter.
I selected the parameter and gave the parameter a name as 'Batch_Name' to the parameter. I used the same name for the parameter in the second CP. But I get and error here when I run the request set.
The error is "Descriptive flexfield canot take the 11032010195555 as the value".
Can some one help me witht his.
Thanks

Answer 1

What I understand from your explaination is
1. When the first CP is launched, the CP creates User accounts and creates a batch in hr_pump_batch_headers.
2. The Second CP which is Data Pump Engine should pick up this batch and use this batch for processing.
But this is not possible through the request set as the Parameters are validated at the time the request is submitted So when the request is submitted using the request set, the batch would not have been created as the batch is created after the completion first request and hence the batch name will be invalid for the Data Pump Engine at the time of submission.
Solution : Instead of request set approach, you should launch the Data Pump Engine request from the first CP using FND_REQUEST.SUBMIT_REQUEST. Once the first CP is done with the batch creation, the code should launch the Data Pump Engine Request passing the batch.