that's OK, if you send all the details in an email and via RDA/CCM/trace files the first call back seems invariably be to ask for detail you've already supplied anyway :) Actually I do prefer to deal with sr's via email - especially when they get escalated/passed to someone in a different timezone to me. cheers Niall On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Charles Schultz<sacrophyte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just for the record, every SR I filed last week (2 x Sev 1 and 1 x Sev 2) > were via phone. On my last Sev 1, the HUB operator attempted to recommend > that I use Metalink, suggesting that is actually faster. I laughed at him > and told him that he was quite incorrect. The poor guy was also quite > incorrect about analysts calling me within 30 minutes of filing a Sev 1, but > that is a completely different issue. =) > The only bad thing about calling in SRs is that sometimes I end up with > someone who does not understand English (or perhaps my American midwest > accent?) very well and the SR text gets a little garbled. > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 08:50, Bill Ferguson <wbfergus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Perhaps the ulterior motive (from reading the previous posts), is so >> many people are going to be negatively impacted without MetaLink >> Classic being available, support will get fewer SR's, therefore >> mid-level management can tell Larry "See, the product and our new >> support option have drastically reduced the number of SR's filed, >> therefore our product is becoming easier to use and less buggy". >> >> >> -- >> -- Bill Ferguson >> -- >> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >> >> > > > > -- > Charles Schultz > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l