Rich: This works wonderfully! Don't know why I struggled so long with symbols. The logical works so well, and it's nice and clean.
Bruce: redefining sys$output also works. Rich is correct - there's some extra stuff in there I'd need to filter out. But I can see some instances where this would really work great.
Kudos to you both! Thanks for your responses. Barb
Not exactly like Unix (better!)...
Instead of spooling to a symbol, spool to a *logical*. I know this works (or did in Oracle8 on VMS), as I used to use it with a DCL CGI script I made to produce graphs from data in Oracle tables. But I don't know how Oracle will treat the filename as part of the logical. Try something like this:
$ val_sid = f$trnlnm("ora_sid") $! $ sho sym val_sid $! tmp = "tmp_"+"''val_sid'"+".txt" $! sho sym tmp $ define tmp "tmp_''val_sid'.txt" $ sqlplus "/ as sysdba" spool tmp select '$ STOP/IDENTIFICATION=' || p.spid proc_id from v$session s, v$process . . . . . If that doesn't work as you expect, you could also try to append a colon onto the spool command ("spool tmp:"). Like I said, I'm not sure how Oracle will deal with the filename in the logical. It's been awhile!
Let us know if that works. GL!
Rich