ODI Execution Intermittently Hangs With "ORA-08103: object no longer exists" Error on Oracle 12c Database (Doc ID 2208070.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 12, 2019

Applies to:

Symptoms

Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) executions intermittently fail when either the ODI Repositories, or the source or target Datasores are hosted on an Oracle 12c database, and the following error is observed in the ODI log file:

... Session preparation failure: database error while connecting to <WORK REPOSITORY or DATA SERVER NAME>.[[
java.sql.SQLException: ORA-08103: object no longer exists
  at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:462)
  at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:405)
  at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.processError(T4C8Oall.java:931)
  at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIfun.receive(T4CTTIfun.java:481)
  at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIfun.doRPC(T4CTTIfun.java:205)
  at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.doOALL(T4C8Oall.java:548)
  at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CPreparedStatement.doOall8(T4CPreparedStatement.java:217)
  at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CPreparedStatement.executeForDescribe(T4CPreparedStatement.java:947)
  at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.executeMaybeDescribe(OracleStatement.java:1283)
  at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.doExecuteWithTimeout(OracleStatement.java:1441)
  at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.executeInternal(OraclePreparedStatement.java:3769)
  at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.executeQuery(OraclePreparedStatement.java:3823)
  at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatementWrapper.executeQuery(OraclePreparedStatementWrapper.java:1671)
  at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1118.invoke(Unknown Source)
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
  at oracle.ucp.jdbc.proxy.PreparedStatementProxyFactory.invoke(PreparedStatementProxyFactory.java:111)
  at ...

Cause

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