Consumer Group Mapping Rules Use Pattern Matching from 12.1

I recently noticed a small, but I think significant, change in the way consumer group mapping rules behave from Oracle 11.2.04.  Session attributes can be matched to resource groups using LIKE expressions and simple regular expressions specified in the matching rules, though only for certain attributes.
(Updated 12.11.2019) I am grateful to Mikhail Velikikh for his comment.  It depends on which version of Oracle's documentation for 11.2 you read.  Pattern matching does work in 11.2.0.4 for the attributes listed in the 12.1 documentation. My testing indicates that pattern matching does not happen in 11.2.0.3.
You cannot pattern match the SERVICE_NAME in 11.2.  The attribute value is validated against the list of valid services.

exec DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER.SET_CONSUMER_GROUP_MAPPING(DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER.SERVICE_NAME, 'WIBBLE', 'MYGROUP1');
ORA-00042: Unknown Service name WIBBLE

However, you can pattern match SERVICE_NAME in 12.1, although SERVICE_NAME is not in the list of attributes for which the documentation says pattern matching is available.  This may be a documentation bug (see Oracle support note 1992704.1).
The parameters to procedure DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER.SET_CONSUMER_GROUP_MAPPING are:

DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER.SET_CONSUMER_GROUP_MAPPING(
   attribute        IN VARCHAR2, 
   value            IN VARCHAR2, 
   consumer_group   IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL); 

11.2 Documentation (c)2010

You use the SET_CONSUMER_GROUP_MAPPING procedure to map a session attribute/value pair to a consumer group. The parameters for this procedure are the following:

Parameter	Description
attribute	The session attribute type, specified as a package constant
value	The value of the attribute
consumer group	The consumer group to map to for this attribute/value pair

11.2 Documentation (c)2015

This procedure adds, deletes, or modifies entries that map sessions to consumer groups, based on the session's login and runtime attributes.

Parameter	Description
attribute	Mapping attribute to add or modify. It can be one of the Constants listed.
value	Attribute value to match. This includes both absolute mapping and regular expressions.
consumer group	Name of the mapped consumer group, or NULL to delete a mapping

Usage Notes 
If no mapping exists for the given attribute and value, a mapping to the given consumer group will be created. If a mapping already exists for the given attribute and value, the mapped consumer group will be updated to the one given. If the consumer_group argument is NULL, then any mapping from the given attribute and value will be deleted.
The subprogram supports simple regex expressions for the value parameter. It implements the same semantics as the SQL 'LIKE' operator. Specifically, it uses '%' as a multi-character wildcard and '_' as a single character wildcard. The '\' character can be used to escape the wildcards. Note that wildcards can only be used if the attribute is one of the following:

• CLIENT_OS_USER
• CLIENT_PROGRAM*
• CLIENT_MACHINE
• MODULE_NAME
• MODULE_NAME_ACTION
• SERVICE_MODULE
• SERVICE_MODULE_ACTION 

*Consumer group mapping comparisons for DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER.CLIENT_PROGRAM are performed by stripping the @ sign and following characters from V$SESSION.PROGRAM before comparing it to the CLIENT_PROGRAM value supplied.

Autonomous Database Example

The mappings are reported in the view DBA_RSRC_GROUP_MAPPINGS. An example of using a LIKE expression in a mapping can be found in the standard configuration of autonomous cloud databases. There are 5 standard mappings for 5 services to 5 consumer groups. The automatically created service names are prefixed with the database name, then HIGH, LOW, MEDIUM, TP or TPURGENT., and are suffixed .atp.oraclecloud.com.

SELECT * FROM v$services ORDER BY 1;

NAME                                                            
----------------------------------------------------------------
KZPKSBZK3RK4G1X_GOFASTER1A_high.atp.oraclecloud.com
KZPKSBZK3RK4G1X_GOFASTER1A_low.atp.oraclecloud.com
KZPKSBZK3RK4G1X_GOFASTER1A_medium.atp.oraclecloud.com
KZPKSBZK3RK4G1X_GOFASTER1A_tp.atp.oraclecloud.com
KZPKSBZK3RK4G1X_GOFASTER1A_tpurgent.atp.oraclecloud.com
kzpksbzk3rk4g1x_gofaster1a

However, the mappings are defined using pattern matching rather than referencing the explicit name of the service, thus exactly the same mappings can be defined on every autonomous database.

select * from DBA_RSRC_GROUP_MAPPINGS order by 1,2;

                             Consumer 
ATTRIBUTE    VALUE           Group      STATUS
------------ --------------- ---------- ----------
ORACLE_USER  GGADMIN         LOW
SERVICE_NAME %\_HIGH.%       HIGH
SERVICE_NAME %\_LOW.%        LOW
SERVICE_NAME %\_MEDIUM.%     MEDIUM
SERVICE_NAME %\_TP.%         TP
SERVICE_NAME %\_TPURGENT.%   TPURGENT

Note:

• By default, the ORACLE_USER attribute's priority 6 takes precedence over SERVICE_NAME whose priority is 7. Therefore, GGADMIN, the GoldenGate user, always uses the LOW consumer group irrespective of the service that it connects to. The default priorities can be changed.
• Wildcards cannot be used for the ORACLE_USER attribute.