Hello, I'm looking for a method to call executable within PLSQL. The executable resides on my database server (HPUX). I found a number of sample code that creates oracle function/java program to do what I need. However, I'm not able to find any information on how I can run the executable remotely. What I meant by remotely is I want to be able to initiate the function/procedure from another Unix server or from my windows client other than from my database server. Everything works well if I log in to the database from my database server and initiates the function from there but it fails if I initiate it from my PC since it has no access to the executable on the database server. Is this feasible? Does anyone has any code that does that or has any suggestions? I'm running 9.2.0.6. thanks. steve __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l