SQLPlus behaving differently in DOS prompt than in windows tool - why?

Question

I'm executing the following using both sqlplus from a DOS prompt, and in the SQLPlus Windows application. I get different behavior and am trying to determine why. Here's the code:
create procedure JUSTTESTING (DebugStatus IN VARCHAR2)
AS
BEGIN
<do stuff>;
IF DebugStatus = 'MakeChanges' THEN
commit;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Changes Made!');
ELSE
rollback;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Not gonna do it');
END IF;
END;
Case 1: I fire up the Windows SQLPlus application and type in:
"execute justtesting('MakeChanges');"
it responds "Changes Made!"
If I type "execute justtesting('Just kidding');"
it responds "Not gonna do it"
This is as expected, of course.
Case 2: Now, let's store the following in a text file called "a.sql":
execute justtesting('MakeChanges');
execute justtesting('Just kidding');
quit
Then I type this from a DOS box:
sqlplus login/pwd@env @a.sql
The output says:
"PL/SQL procedure successfully completed"
"PL/SQL procedure successfully completed"
The PUT_LINE does not execute, nor does the commit when I give the right parm. Why, and how can I make it work?
This is Oracle 8.0 - I know that's way behind the times but that's unfortunately beyond my control.

Answer 1

user12955329 wrote:
I'm executing the following using both sqlplus from a DOS prompt, and in the SQLPlus Windows application. I get different behavior and am trying to determine why. Here's the code:
create procedure JUSTTESTING (DebugStatus IN VARCHAR2)
AS
BEGIN
<do stuff>;
IF DebugStatus = 'MakeChanges' THEN
commit;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Changes Made!');
ELSE
rollback;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Not gonna do it');
END IF;
END;
Case 1: I fire up the Windows SQLPlus application and type in:
"execute justtesting('MakeChanges');"
it responds "Changes Made!"
If I type "execute justtesting('Just kidding');"
it responds "Not gonna do it"
This is as expected, of course.
Case 2: Now, let's store the following in a text file called "a.sql":
execute justtesting('MakeChanges');
execute justtesting('Just kidding');
quit
Then I type this from a DOS box:
sqlplus login/pwd@env @a.sql
The output says:
"PL/SQL procedure successfully completed"
"PL/SQL procedure successfully completed"
The PUT_LINE does not execute, nor does the commit when I give the right parm. Why, and how can I make it work?
This is Oracle 8.0 - I know that's way behind the times but that's unfortunately beyond my control.As Anurug says, in the command line version you'll need to do...
set serveroutput onbefore any dbms_output calls are made so that SQL*Plus retrieves the contents of the DBMS_OUTPUT buffer and displays it.
As for you saying the commit does not execute, there doesn't appear to be anything in your code to commit, so how are you determining that?