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New 11g DBMS_SCHEDULER jobs

1. ORA$AUTOTASK_CLEAN
The job is created by the 11g script catmwin.sql which mentions that this job is an autotask repository data ageing job. It runs the procedure ora$age_autotask_data.

2. HM_CREATE_OFFLINE_DICTIONARY
The job is created by the 11g script catmwin.sql which mentions that this is a job for creation of offline dictionary for Database Repair Advisor.
From unpublished Note 602459.1 – ‘What Is OFFLINE_DICTIONARY’: ‘The system job SYS.HM_CREATE_OFFLINE_DICTIONARY executes the dbms_hm.create_offline_dictionary package which creates a LogMiner offline dictionary in the ADR for DRA name translation service. The job for generating the logminer dictionary is scheduled during the maintenance window. This job can be disabled. ‘

3. DRA_REEVALUATE_OPEN_FAILURES
The job is created by the 11g script catmwin.sql which mentions that this is a job for reevaluate open failures for Database Recovery Advisor. In other words it is used to get assistance in case of loss or corruption of datafiles, redo log files or controlfiles.
The job executes the procedure dbms_ir.reevaluateopenfailures.
Note.466682.1 – ‘Data Recovery Advisor -Reference Guide’.

4. MGMT_CONFIG_JOB – comes with the OCM(Oracle Configuration Manager) installation – This is a configuration collection job.
The job is created by the script ocmjb10.sql by running procedure ‘ORACLE_OCM.MGMT_CONFIG.collect_config’.

5. MGMT_STATS_CONFIG_JOB
This is an OCM Statistics collection job created in ocmjb10.sql by running ‘ORACLE_OCM.MGMT_CONFIG.collect_stats’.

6. BSLN_MAINTAIN_STATS_JOB
This job is a compute statistics job. This job runs the BSLN_MAINTAIN_STATS_PROG program on the BSLN_MAINTAIN_STATS_SCHED schedule. The program BSLN_MAINTAIN_STATS_PROG will keep the default baseline’s statistics up-to-date.
Regarding what happens to the old GATHER_STATS_JOB, refer to Note 743507.1 – ‘Why Has the GATHER_STATS_JOB been removed in 11g?’

7. XMLDB_NFS_CLEANUP_JOB
The job is created in xdbu102.sql and runs the procedure dbms_xdbutil_int.cleanup_expired_nfsclients.

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