Thanks to the folks in Redlands. It appears that there is no specific configuration. Basically it will read all the data workspaces and if it encounters one that it cannot connect to, it will stop. In my case I have desktop users with an Oracle 10 client and servers with Oracle 11 clients. I was hoping to be able to keep workspaces for both and point to different workspaces depending on the job step (No desktop steps from the server). Unfortunately, if I want to use the spatial notification I cannot start it on the server with only an Oracle 11 client, and both Oracle 10 and Oracle 11 data workspaces. Alison