I imagine it will be safe until APPS is replaced by fusion stuff. Apps autoconfig uses this, and is likely the reason it exists. On 11 Jan 2011 16:06, "Dunbar, Norman (Capgemini)" < norman.dunbar.capgemini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I thought they desupported that, I could be wrong. At 10g, the reference manual has a section on IFILE and it makes no mention of desupport. There is also no mention of desupport in the reference manual for 11.2. So it looks pretty safe.....(Famous last words!) Cheers, Norm. Norman Dunbar Contract Senior Oracle DBA Capgemini Database Team (EA) Internal : 7... //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l