Workspace Manager support

Hi,
I am trying to find out what kind of support OEM has for workspace management (e.g. Merge/Refresh table, enable/disable versioning etc).. Could some body point me to a document or briefly describe the relevant features provided in OEM ?
thanks

Hi,
What version are you using? What error are you getting? Workspace manager supports functional based indexes.
Regards,
Ben

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