I've noticed the same disparity, and have also not found a later version. Jared On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:13:06 -0500, Gogala, Mladen <mladen.gogala@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Being one of those DBA geeks who always install DBMS_SUPPORT, even in the > cases when I > have not been given a direct advice from the Oracle Support, I was > describing it to a colleague. > He asked me about the package version function, and I went to see what's in > it. Here is > what the function returns: > > SQL> select dbms_support.package_version from dual; > > PACKAGE_VERSION > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > DBMS_SUPPORT Version 1.0 (17-Aug-1998) - Requires Oracle 7.2 - 8.0.5 > > SQL> select * from v$version; > > BANNER > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production > PL/SQL Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production > CORE 9.2.0.3.0 Production > TNS for HPUX: Version 9.2.0.4.0 - Production > NLSRTL Version 9.2.0.4.0 - Production > > SQL> > > I may be wrong but 9.2.0.4.0 does not seem to fall in the required version > range. > > Now, my question is whether there is a newer version. That is one of those > secretive undocumented packages described nowhere > except in little known books by Tom Kyte and Cary Millsap as well as in > about a 100 or so notes on Metalink (if you enter > DBMS_SUPPORT in the search field, then 127 results are found) and an article > in Oracle Magazine for Jan 04 (Cary's hand, again) > which means that it is only used by 50,000 or so database administrators in > the world. Now that the cat is out of the bag, it would > be nice to maintain it and add some new stuff, like the event 10053 and > something to show me the name of the tracefile without > resorting to oradebug. > > -- > Mladen Gogala > A & E TV Network > Ext. 1216 > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l