I believe the ILM pack is a newly created pack which includes the following: Change management, provisioning and patch management. Here are the links for the packs: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/enterprise-manager/change-management-pack-11g-ds-068451.pdf http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oem/grid-control/overview/provpack-db-ds-1-129869.pdf Oracle is trying to re-market the products by packaging it.. -Upendra > Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:49:58 -0600 > From: tim@xxxxxxxxx > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: is Lifecycle management pack being used by anyone? > > Last I heard (i.e. circa 2008), the "Information Lifecycle Mgmt" or > "ILM" pack was an APEX plugin consisting of logic to implement > time-based partitioning of tables across time-variant tablespaces, thus > enabling the use of tiered storage. > > This may (or may not) be the thing you have? > > If it is, I only kicked the tires, and didn't really open it up and use > it in anger, because IIRC I could see from the tire-kicking it wasn't > doing exactly what I wanted, so it became shelfware. I just looked and > I don't have emails from the time-period specifying exactly what it > wasn't doing, just generalizing what I said here; sorry. If you held my > feet to the fire, I think I would say that the plugin generated a script > to initially implement partitioning on two tiers of storage, but did not > do anything about more than two tiers, and did nothing about the ongoing > rolling of tablespaces from tier-1 to tier-2, from tier-2 to tier-N, and > finally from tier-N to the bit-bucket. It merely generated the initial > DDL, which I can say is the easy part, having implemented the > rolling/drop logic in PL/SQL myself. > > Of course, if it isn't the same module, then please disregard... :-) > > > On 3/20/2013 1:56 PM, Stephens, Chris wrote: > > I just found out we might be getting this product/option. Prior to today, > > I'd never even heard of it. > > Is anybody out there using it and willing to share impressions/experiences? > > > > Thanks, > > Chris > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l