"ORA-00911: invalid character" Error Received after Upgrading from ODI 11g To ODI 12c when Executing Artifacts that Involve Variables (Doc ID 2419705.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 04, 2020

Applies to:

Oracle Data Integrator - Version 12.1.3.0.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

After upgrading from Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) 11g (11.1.1.7.0 and older) to ODI 12c, the Project Variables used inside another Variable are not replaced by their actual value, causing the following error to be received at runtime:

ODI-1228: Task Variable-MY_VARIBLE- fails on the target connection XXXXX.

Caused By: java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: ORA-00911: invalid character
...
at oracle.odi.runtime.agent.execution.sql.RefreshVariableExecutor.execute(RefreshVariableExecutor.java:55)
at oracle.odi.runtime.agent.execution.sql.RefreshVariableExecutor.execute(RefreshVariableExecutor.java:27)
at oracle.odi.runtime.agent.execution.TaskExecutionHandler.handleTask(TaskExecutionHandler.java:52)
at oracle.odi.runtime.agent.execution.VariableSessionTask.processTask(VariableSessionTask.java:192)
at oracle.odi.runtime.agent.execution.SessionTask.doExecuteTask(SessionTask.java:117)
at oracle.odi.runtime.agent.execution.VariableSessionTask.doExecuteTask(VariableSessionTask.java:164)
at oracle.odi.runtime.agent.execution.AbstractSessionTask.execute(AbstractSessionTask.java:886)
at oracle.odi.runtime.agent.execution.SessionExecutor$SerialTrain.runTasks(SessionExecutor.java:2225)
at oracle.odi.runtime.agent.execution.SessionExecutor.executeSession(SessionExecutor.java:610)
at ...