Hi. GLOBAL_NAMES=TRUE is a requirement in the documentation and I had the same concerns as you did when I implemented Streams, so I opened a SR regarding this. The bottom line is it's not necessary, but as you say, you may run into a support issue. For me there was no way around setting it to FALSE (way too many db links named wrong for TRUE) so I just had to go with it and never ran into an issue (like Krish). Good luck. Finn On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 1:31 AM, <krish.hariharan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I wasn't aware of the requirement that this has to be true. I am running > streams or testing it with it false but with the db links matching the > target database's global name. I cannot set global_names to true as there > are other links in the database that do not conform. > > If the duty manager stated that, then I would ask for a metalink or Oracle > Documentation reference that states that (I would be interested in your > discovery as well). BTW, in my case the set up works just fine, which I > guess is not the point of this email. > > -Krish > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l