Problem with DBMS_SQL

Dear All

Every time when I try to create table with the DBMS_SQL I get error

ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SYS_SQL", line 782
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SQL", line 32
ORA-06512: at "DL.SP_CR", line 6
ORA-06512: at line 2
-----------

The procedure code is trivial and I call it as

begin

   sp_cr('CREATE TABLE XTTBL(a NUMBER)'); end;
/

CREATE OR REPLACE procedure SP_CR(pvi_str VARCHAR2) AS   cid INTEGER;
  err_code INTEGER;
begin
  cid := DBMS_SQL.OPEN_CURSOR;
  DBMS_SQL.PARSE(cid, pvi_str, DBMS_SQL.native);   err_code:=DBMS_SQL.EXECUTE(cid);
  DBMS_SQL.CLOSE_CURSOR(cid);
 END;
/

What might be wrong here?

Yes, I can try native SQL (I'm running 8i) but code has to be portable to the 8.05

Cheers,
Dimitri

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