ORA-27465: invalid value 1 for attribute ARGUMENT_POSITION

Question

I have procedure like this inside a package

PROCEDURE prepBillInfoforAccrualIntr (p_date in date);

-- created a program

BEGIN
  DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_PROGRAM(PROGRAM_NAME        => 'MY_PROGRAM',
                                PROGRAM_TYPE        => 'STORED_PROCEDURE',
                                PROGRAM_ACTION      => 'GENEVA_ADMIN.IPGTIBCOAPIS_LMS_GENERIC_FIXED.PREPBILLINFOFORACCRUALINTR',
                                NUMBER_OF_ARGUMENTS => 1,
                                ENABLED             => FALSE,
                                COMMENTS            => 'MY PROGRAM');
END;

-- defined argument

BEGIN
  DBMS_SCHEDULER.DEFINE_PROGRAM_ARGUMENT(PROGRAM_NAME      => 'MY_PROGRAM',
                                         ARGUMENT_NAME     => 'P_DATE',
                                         ARGUMENT_POSITION => 1,
                                         ARGUMENT_TYPE     => 'DATE',
                                         DEFAULT_VALUE     => '');
END;

-- enabled

BEGIN
  DBMS_SCHEDULER.ENABLE(NAME => 'MY_PROGRAM');
END;

-- created a job

BEGIN
  DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB(JOB_NAME   => 'MY_TEST_JOB',
                           -- PROGRAM_NAME => 'MY_PROGRAM',
                            JOB_TYPE   => 'STORED_PROCEDURE',
                            JOB_ACTION => 'GENEVA_ADMIN.IPGTIBCOAPIS_LMS_GENERIC_FIXED.PREPBILLINFOFORACCRUALINTR',
                            START_DATE => SYSDATE,
                            AUTO_DROP  => TRUE,
                            COMMENTS   => 'MY NEW JOB');
END;

-- and passing arguments

BEGIN
  DBMS_SCHEDULER.SET_JOB_ARGUMENT_VALUE(JOB_NAME          => 'MY_TEST_JOB',
                                        ARGUMENT_POSITION => 1,
                                        ARGUMENT_VALUE    => '06-JUL-2017');
END;

It is giving below error.

ORA-27465: invalid value 1 for attribute ARGUMENT_POSITION

I want to pass static date as 06-JUL-2017. I also tried with

dbms_scheduler.set_job_anydata_value

but getting same error.

Could you please help.

Thanks,

Answer 1

From the docs, SET_JOB_ARGUMENT_VALUE only works for VARCHAR2 arguments. If you need to set a non-VARCHAR2 value (in your case a date), you have to use SET_JOB_ANYDATA_VALUE instead. I think this should work.

BEGIN
  DBMS_SCHEDULER.SET_JOB_ANYDATA_VALUE(JOB_NAME          => 'MY_TEST_JOB',
          ARGUMENT_POSITION => 1,
          ARGUMENT_VALUE => SYS.ANYDATA.convertDate(TO_DATE('06-JUL-2017','DD-MON-YYYY')));
END;