jcs.wait

on-site-related topic PL/SQL API jcs.wait

Summary

Wait for child job(s) to finish.

Until that time, the calling job gets status WAITING (W).

A job is in a finished state when its status level is equal or greater than 4; this means CANCELED, UNKNOWN, ERROR, COMPLETED, KILLED or DELETING.

The following exceptions can occur when you wait for a job:

  • JCS-02191 - when the timeout has expired.
  • JCS-02041 - when the job does not exist yet/anymore.

Specification

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procedure wait()

Wait for all child jobs to finish.

Transaction keyword

The transaction keyword defines how and/or when the changes are committed to the database. A definition of the various transaction keywords can be found on the jcs package summary page.

autonomous

Specification

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procedure wait(job_id in number,
timeout in number default null)

Wait until a job is finished.

Parameters

  • job_id - the ID of the job to wait for
  • timeout - number of seconds to wait

Transaction keyword

The transaction keyword defines how and/or when the changes are committed to the database. A definition of the various transaction keywords can be found on the jcs package summary page.

autonomous

Specification

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function wait(job_id in number,
timeout in number default null)
    return varchar2

Wait until the indicated job is in a finished state and return the v4-compatible status.

Warning: This function is de-supported; it returns a Redwood 4.1 compatible status, where READY indicates COMPLETED. Use the jcs.job_status_wait or jcs.job_statuscode_wait functions instead.

Parameters

  • job_id - the ID of the job to wait for
  • timeout - number of seconds to wait
  • returns varchar2 - the status of the job (in Redwood 4.1 format)

Transaction keyword

The transaction keyword defines how and/or when the changes are committed to the database. A definition of the various transaction keywords can be found on the jcs package summary page.

autonomous

Examples

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Using jcs.wait
       jcs.submit('Part 1');
       commit;
       jcs.wait;
       jcs.submit('Part 2');

Using jcs.wait

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