SQL*LOADER on forms in IAS 10g environment

I want to execute a sqlloader command within a Oracle Form in a Oracle IAS 10g environment. Is there any knowledge out there how to solve that?
thanks,
Ame
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joinnv

Well... you could try to call some unix script from your forms and have this script handle the sqlldr stuff (which is the solution you already found ;) ). You could also try to build some java bean to upload files and load it directly into your database (not using sqlldr anymore).

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