SQLDBA sessions

     Greetings, Fellow OraHax!!

     I am currently running v7.x on AIX, SunOS and HP-UX, with other
     Unii to follow at some point in time.  I am writing a horrendously
     complicated script which generates another horrendously complicated
     script to be fed through SQLDBA.  The SQLDBA script is of the
     format:

     do_sql_action;


     !do_unix_action


     do_some_more_sql_stuff;


     !do_some_more_unix_stuff


     more_sql;
     more_sql;
     still_more_sql;


     !more_unix_junk


     !and so on ad nauseum


     exit

     So far, to the best of my analysis, the SQL script waits for the
     subprocess to complete before issuing the next statement (SQL or
     Unix).  And, this is fine by me, 'cuz I need synchronous processing
     on this one.  Has anyone, on ANY UNIX platform, seen the subprocess
     submitted asynchronously (or spawn/nowait for you VMSheads) ??

     This, of course, begs the secondary question: if I *needed*
     asynchronous processing, is there anyway to tell SQLDBA to do
     that ??

     Extra credit awarded to anyone answering both questions...
     Bambi.