If you don't want to do call from operating system you
could profit oracle job queueing, but only with v8
<dperez_at_juno_nospam.com> ÓÏÏÂÝÉÌ × ÎÏ×ÏÓÔÑÈ
ÓÌÅÄÕÀÝÅÅ:3b48d3fb.1096909913_at_news.qwest.net...
> Um, how? Remember, I want to do this from WITHIN my pl/sql packages. I
do NOT
> want to have to run separate packages from the operating system...
>
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 15:11:41 +0600, "Alexander V. Silantiev"
> <silantiev_at_bashkortostan.ru> wrote:
>
> >You can realize a stand alone background process (MMM.B) that pick out
the
> >relevant packed message in wich might be stored the results from XYZ.A.
> >In that time XYZ.A continue processing and pack up the results in the
queue.
> ><dperez_at_juno_nospam.com> ÓÏÏÂÝÉÌ × ÎÏ×ÏÓÔÑÈ
> >ÓÌÅÄÕÀÝÅÅ:3b4683b8.945290766_at_news.qwest.net...
> >> I would like to start a process from a running pl/sql process....... I
figure
> >> there's GOT to be some package, or utility, or something in Oracle to
do
this,
> >> but I can't find it... Or I'm not understanding it when I see it...
> >>
> >> For example:
> >>
> >> I have package XYZ with procedure A in it as a stored procedure in the
database
> >> I also have package MMM with procedure B in it as a stored procedure.
> >>
> >> I run XYZ.A from the command line, and it happily takes off and starts
> >> processing...
> >>
> >> At some point during the processing I want to start an independend
MMM.B
to
> >> perform some task. I want to PASS parameters to MMM.B from XYZ.A, but
NOT
have
> >> XYZ.A wait for MMM.B to complete. I want it to start MMM.B then
continue
on
> >> about its processing. While the first copy of MMM.B is running, I may
want to
> >> start ANOTHER ONE, pass it different values for the parameters and have
MMM.B
> >> (2) go off doing its thing... So, at this moment I have XYZ.A, MMM.B,
and
> >> MMM.B(2) all running concurrently.
> >>
> >> I don't think HOST will work here because I want to have MMM.B get
parameters
> >> from XYZ.A...
> >>
> >> So, for instance I could have XYZ.A sitting in a loop grabbing parent
records
> >> from a table. For each record I want to start some long-running
process
MMM.B
> >> that would go off and independently process something...
> >>
> >> So, package? utility? dbms_ something?
> >
> >
>
Received on Sun Jul 08 2001 - 23:05:30 CDT
