VPD

Today one of my colleague was working on development of a screen in Oracle Forms to give the end user an option to schedule a job using dbms_scheduler. With the hope that i would be able to explain it properly, the whole scenario is like this: User will log in to the application with his username (Lets say USER01) and password (basically every application user is a database user). He is provided with a screen where he can enter details about the job and the code behind the button calls a PL/SQL procedure in the main application schema (lets say APP1) which in turn uses DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB to schedule the new job. The ultimate task of the job is to move data from one table in the first database to a table in the second database using a DB Link. There is a VPD policy applied on all the application users to restrict the view of data. Policy function uses SYS_CONTEXT to fetch some information about the logged in user. The main application user APP1 is exempted from policy and can see the whole data. Things seem to work fine till the schedule part. But when the job runs it hits ORA-02070: database does not support operator SYS_CONTEXT in this context as SYS_CONTEXT and DB link doesn’t go together. ...