SET SERVEROUTPUT ON doesn't work

I'm new to Oracle and PL/SQL, and was writing a simple procedure, when I decided that I'd like to see some debugging type info. I tried the DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE and that didn't compile, so I tried DBMS_OUTPUT.ENABLE, and that didn't work either. I then tried SET SERVEROUTPUT ON, and that gave the following message:

SQL> set serveroutput on;
ERROR:

ORA-06550: line 1, column 19:
PLS-00201: identifier 'DBMS_OUTPUT.ENABLE' must be declared
ORA-06550: line 1, column 7:

So, what gives? This is supposed to be a "standard" Oracle function/package, isn't it? If anyone out there has any ideas, I'd be glad to hear them.

Thanks! Received on Sat Aug 24 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST