Maxim, man, I've dug up the 10gR2 docs BEFORE writing my request (because I remember having seen a parameter like this). I searched for "include" and "ifile" and found nothing within the Networking docs, only for the init.ora and HS. Either I must be blind or this feature is not or no longer documented. Anyway, thanks for telling me. ;-) Best regards, Uwe Am 11.01.2011 16:51, schrieb Maxim Demenko: > Uwe, afaik, ifile directive for tnsnames.ora works out of the box, no > enhancement is needed. > Best regards > > Maxim > > On 11.01.2011 16:36, Uwe Küchler wrote: >> Dear fellow oracle-l'ers, >> >> let me start with a "happy new year" to y'all first (for the politically >> correct of you: Happy change of the Gregorian calendar :-)! >> >> Recently, I've opened an enhancement request with Oracle, asking them to >> implement an "IFILE" directive like there is for the init.ora. Support >> asked for further clarification of some details, and this is where I'd >> like the community to kick in! >> So, before detailing my request here's what I'd like to find out: >> >> 1. Do you also consider this to be a useful feature? >> >> Looking forward to having a fruitful discussion, >> Uwe >> -- >> http://oraculix.wordpress.com/ >> >> >> -- >> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >> >> > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l