Replicat abend with ERROR OGG-03517- Conversion from character set UTF-8 of source column XML_DATA to character set UTF-16BE of target column XML_DATA failed

Last updated on NOVEMBER 23, 2016

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Symptoms

Replicat abend with

2016-03-27 18:47:09 ERROR OGG-03517 Oracle GoldenGate Delivery for Oracle, repsedb1.prm:
Conversion from character set UTF-8 of source column XML_DATA to character set UTF-16BE of target column XML_DATA failed because the source column contains a character that is not available in the target character set.

It is observed that the characterset of source and target are the same.The issue is observed in 12.1.2.1.0 version

Replicat session NLS

Database Language and Character Set:
NLS_LANGUAGE = "AMERICAN"
NLS_TERRITORY = "AMERICA"
NLS_CHARACTERSET = "AL32UTF8"


Extract session NLS
Database Language and Character Set:
NLS_LANGUAGE = "AMERICAN"
NLS_TERRITORY = "AMERICA"
NLS_CHARACTERSET = "AL32UTF8"

SQL> ! hostname
sedb01

SQL> select parameter,value from v$nls_parameters where parameter like '%CHARACTERSET';

PARAMETER VALUE
---------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------
NLS_CHARACTERSET AL32UTF8
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET AL16UTF16


** Dest ***

SQL> ! hostname
fxdb01

SQL>
SQL> select parameter,value from v$nls_parameters where parameter like '%CHARACTERSET';

PARAMETER VALUE
---------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------
NLS_CHARACTERSET AL32UTF8
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET AL16UTF16

Cause