On 06/08/05, Arul Ramachandran <contactarul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Whereas, when I call the procedure from dbms_job.submit ( with a commit > after ), the procedure does what it is supposed to do with the DMLs. But > the trace files are not generated in user_dump. > Have you looked in bdump (background dump)? It's not something I've ever tried but from what I know of how jobs work I'd expect the trace files to end up in bdump. I think it's worth a look. Stephen -- It's better to ask a silly question than to make a silly assumption. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l