C-LANG Statements › DESCRIPTION Statement—Describe an Oracle Applications Single Request

DESCRIPTION Statement—Describe an Oracle Applications Single Request

The DESCRIPTION statement provides an additional description for an Oracle Applications single request. This description is concatenated with the program name to create the request name.

Supported Job Type

This statement is optional for the Oracle E-Business Suite Single Request job type.

Syntax

This statement has the following format:

DESCRIPTION description

description

Defines a description for an Oracle E-Business Suite Single Request job. The description displays in the Name column of the Requests dialog.

Limits: Up to 30 characters; case-sensitive

Notes:

• Enclose values that contain delimiters (such as spaces) in double quotation marks.
• Your agent administrator can define a default description for all Oracle E-Business Suite Single Request jobs by setting the oa.default.desc parameter in the agent's agentparm.txt file.
• The DESCRIPTION statement overrides the default description specified in the oa.default.desc parameter in the agent's agentparm.txt.
• DESC is an alias of DESCRIPTION.

Example: Add a Description to a Single Request

In the following example, information on the history of a program is included in the description:

AGENT CYBOA
PROGRAM XXCOFI
APPLDISPLNAME 'Application Object Library'
RESPNAME 'System Administrator'
OAUSER SYSADMIN
DESCRIPTION 'CONFIRMED REQ 20040808 by TYB212'