I have several databases, versions 8.1.7 through 9.2.0.4, and NLS of UTF8, US7ASCII, and WE8ISO8859P1. Currently our OEM server (v9.2.0.7 and UTF8), which is separate from our database servers, exports a few of our databases and defaults to UTF8. With the non-UTF8 databases, it has to convert the data. In order to ensure that the export does not contain any corrupted data, I would like to specify the NLS to be used prior to export. Is this possible with OEM 9i? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l