Oracle 19c:

ORA-65040: operation not allowed from within a pluggable database, indicates an operation was attempted that can only be performed in the root container.

Issue:

SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY DATA_PUMP_DIR AS '/zfs/dev/expdp/abc';

CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY DATA_PUMP_DIR AS '/zfs/dev/expdp/abc'

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ERROR at line 1:

ORA-65040: operation not allowed from within a pluggable database

Solution:

SQL> alter session set container=cdb$root;

Session altered.

SQL> SELECT DIRECTORY_NAME,DIRECTORY_PATH FROM DBA_DIRECTORIES where DIRECTORY_NAME = 'DATA_PUMP_DIR';

DIRECTORY_NAME          DIRECTORY_PATH

DATA_PUMP_DIR /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0.0/dbhome_2/rdbms/log/

SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY DATA_PUMP_DIR AS '/zfs/dev/expdp/abc';

Directory created.

SQL> SELECT DIRECTORY_NAME,DIRECTORY_PATH FROM DBA_DIRECTORIES where DIRECTORY_NAME = 'DATA_PUMP_DIR';

DIRECTORY_NAME  DIRECTORY_PATH

DATA_PUMP_DIR   /zfs/backup01/dev/expdp/abc

Refer:

ORA-65040: operation not allowed from within a pluggable database" (Doc ID 2122655.1)