Jon Dixon Hi! it seems that OCI has some loose ends. May be its my 2019 free tier account, or that it also has an 19c DB... The issue with DATA_PUMP_DIR seems related to resource principal: in 19c I am able to do a dpexp, but it fails on 23ai... Anyway, went to the basics: read the docs... and found DBMS_VECTOR.LOAD_ONNX_MODEL_CLOUD(), that goes directly to the object store-one step only. Now, on track... Thank you.