On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:04 AM, 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!) I believe that Oracle Apps still makes use of this in tnsnames.ora, so they may have some influence in seeing that the feature use retained. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com