Quote Originally Posted by adewri
Make sure you are running the sqlplus from the correct home ie the infrastructure home where the database is installed.
Your absolutely correct. The enviro vars were set to portal and when switched it worked as expected, I just got a nice 30 minute overview of the apps server / portal of which I have no experience.

So I am just about done copying reports over and will install to /portal and not /infra - I think I will first check and see if its already there, who knows.