Yes you need to shutdown the applications as aucocfg will do a lot of changes on applications as well as database . harmeet On Aug 30, 2007 4:23 PM, k srinivas <k.sridba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi DBAs > > When I run autocfg .. Do I need to shut down my application services. > If yes/no ..Why ??? > > > Thanks in advance > Sreeni.. >