Jared, I recall it not being included in the 8.1.7 distro for win32 and having to download it as a patch - around the time that the 8.1.7.3.0 patchset was released. that had a modify_date of 20020313. I last downloaded that on 20021218. Paul On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:24:39 -0800, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > Jared Still -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l