Duh!! I should have checked the bdump destination. Thanks to Christian and Stephen for pointing me in the right direction. Arul On 8/6/05, stephen booth <stephenbooth.uk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > -- Arul