"Original" IMP transportable tablespace. IMP wants a datafile?

Hello Oracle People,

I'm trying to figure out how to import a transportable tablespace I found.

The tablespace contains the "sample schema"

The export file and corresponding database file look like this:


bash sol oracle ~/product/10r2/assistants/dbca/templates 31 $
bash sol oracle ~/product/10r2/assistants/dbca/templates 31 $ pwd
/h/oracle/product/10r2/assistants/dbca/templates
bash sol oracle ~/product/10r2/assistants/dbca/templates 32 $
bash sol oracle ~/product/10r2/assistants/dbca/templates 32 $
bash sol oracle ~/product/10r2/assistants/dbca/templates 32 $ ll example*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 oracle   dba       980992 Jun 27  2006 example.dmp*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 oracle   dba      13115392 Jun 27  2006 example01.dfb*
bash sol oracle ~/product/10r2/assistants/dbca/templates 33 $
bash sol oracle ~/product/10r2/assistants/dbca/templates 33 $ cp -p
example01.dfb /h/oracle/oradata/orcl/
bash sol oracle ~/product/10r2/assistants/dbca/templates 33 $


I tried a simple command line:

imp transport_tablespace=y
file=example.dmpdatafiles=/h/oracle/oradata/orcl/example01.dfb
tablespaces=EXAMPLE
tts_owners=HR,IX,OE,PM,SH

Here is the error I see:

Import: Release 10.2.0.2.0 - Production on Sat Sep 15 03:18:40 2007

Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

Username: sys as sysdba
Password:

Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.2.0 -
Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options

Export file created by EXPORT:V10.02.01 via conventional path
About to import transportable tablespace(s) metadata...
import done in WE8ISO8859P1 character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set
export client uses US7ASCII character set (possible charset conversion)
. importing SYS's objects into SYS
. importing SYS's objects into SYS
IMP-00017: following statement failed with ORACLE error 19721:
 "BEGIN   sys.dbms_plugts.checkDatafile
(NULL,3922789679,5,12800,6,5,4194302,8"
 "0,531999,547751,1,20971522,NULL,NULL,NULL); END;"
IMP-00003: ORACLE error 19721 encountered

*** lookee here
ORA-19721: Cannot find datafile with absolute file number 5 in tablespace
EXAMPLE
*** lookee here

ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_PLUGTS", line 2065
ORA-06512: at line 1
IMP-00000: Import terminated unsuccessfully
bash sol oracle ~/product/10r2/assistants/dbca/templates 34 $
bash sol oracle ~/product/10r2/assistants/dbca/templates 34 $
bash sol oracle ~/product/10r2/assistants/dbca/templates 34 $


Is imp expecting me to pre-create an empty database file before I run the
import?

I've looked a bit at the docs.  I see no evidence I need to do this.

Also I tried impdp.

It tells me

ORA-39143: dump file "/h/oracle/product/10r2/rdbms/log/example.dmp" may be
an original export dump file

So, I need to use imp.


Here is what my database files currently look like:


03:23:06 SQL> select file_id,file_name from dba_data_files;

   FILE_ID
----------
FILE_NAME
------------------------------------------------
         4
/h/oracle/oradata/orcl/users01.dbf

         3
/h/oracle/oradata/orcl/sysaux01.dbf

         2
/h/oracle/oradata/orcl/undotbs01.dbf

         1
/h/oracle/oradata/orcl/system01.dbf


03:23:35 SQL>

Thoughts anyone?

Do I need to run some kind of data file creation statement before I run the
import?

-Owen

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