>>>Anyway, for the customers stuck on ASM with Standard Ed RAC, >>>I once wrote an experimental utility which can dump out >>>their online redologs from physical ASM files. You just have >>>to extract the redolog (or any datafile) allocation unit >>>locations when ASM instance is running Easier to create the database with nothing but datafiles in ASM which is the stipulation in the license it seems ... -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l