Re: DIM-00019 w/ O 9.2.

I've no idea if that's going to help, but I once saw that in the scripts created by dbca first the service is set to manual start and then changed to automatic start using oradim -edit -sid .... -startmode a

The rest looks good to me (and in fact I created a database instance just the other day the same way you did).

Cheers

Holger

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( Who is back after a really nice long family break )