Strange things happen sometimes. I got alerted by a customer before Christmas about package DBMS_OPTIM_BUNDLE
missing after applying a Release Update. I’ve had a conversation with Nigel Bayliss, the Optimizer PM – but Nigel hasn’t heard of such things either. We both investigated but couldn’t reproduce the issue. But after the end-of-the-year holidays I received similar messages from other customers. In case you miss DBMS_OPTIM_BUNDLE
in 12.2, then this blog post should help you.

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What is DBMS_OPTIM_BUNDLE?
I blogged about this package in the past already several times:
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