"ODI-16105: Expression of attribute UNPIVOT.OUTPUT1.COL does not refer to any upstream attribute" Error Received when Using the Pivot or Unpivot Components in ODI 12.2.1 (Doc ID 2492879.1)

Last updated on APRIL 21, 2023

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Symptoms

After following the steps in a blog post by the Oracle Data Integrator Product Management (PM) Blog, the below error is received:

Using the Unpivot Component in ODI 12c
https://blogs.oracle.com/dataintegration/post/using-the-unpivot-component-in-odi-12c

[2019-01-09T09:45:31.313-05:00] [odi] [WARNING] [] [oracle.odi.mapping] [tid: <TID>] [ecid: <ECID>] oracle.odi.mapping.generation.GenerationException: Error when calling generation delegate for component KM IKM Oracle Insert: ODI-16105: Expression of attribute <NAME> does not refer to any upstream attribute. [[
Caused by: ODI-16105: Expression of attribute <NAME> does not refer to any upstream attribute.  
  at oracle.odi.mapping.generation.ArrayExpression.init(ArrayExpression.java:851)
  at oracle.odi.domain.mapping.generator.GroovyComponentGeneratorDelegateBase.invokeASTProcessor(GroovyComponentGeneratorDelegateBase.java:174)
  at oracle.odi.domain.mapping.generator.GroovyComponentGeneratorDelegateBase.generateComponent(GroovyComponentGeneratorDelegateBase.java:68)
  at oracle.odi.domain.mapping.generator.MapComponentGenerator.generateComponent(MapComponentGenerator.java:259)
  at oracle.odi.domain.mapping.generator.MapComponentGenerator.generateComponent(MapComponentGenerator.java:146)
  at oracle.odi.domain.mapping.generator.MappingGenerator.generateTarget(MappingGenerator.java:2458)
  at oracle.odi.domain.mapping.generator.MappingGenerator.getEKMUsageList(MappingGenerator.java:2007)
  at oracle.odi.domain.mapping.generator.MappingGenerator.generateExecutableDetails(MappingGenerator.java:717)
  at oracle.odi.domain.mapping.generator.MappingGenerator.generateSession(MappingGenerator.java:367)
  at oracle.odi.domain.mapping.generator.MappingGenerator.generateSession(MappingGenerator.java:326)
  at oracle.odi.ui.mapping.MappingExecutionDialog$1.doInTransaction(MappingExecutionDialog.java:330)
  at oracle.odi.core.persistence.transaction.support.TransactionTemplate.execute(TransactionTemplate.java:100)
  at oracle.odi.ui.mapping.MappingExecutionDialog.doExecution(MappingExecutionDialog.java:325)
  ...
Caused by: oracle.odi.domain.mapping.exception.MappingException: ODI-16105: Expression of attribute <NAME> does not refer to any upstream attribute.
  at oracle.odi.mapping.generation.ArrayExpression.init(ArrayExpression.java:851)
  at oracle.odi.mapping.generation.ArrayExpression.internalInitArrayExpression(ArrayExpression.java:420)
  at oracle.odi.mapping.generation.ArrayExpression.internalInitArrayExpression(ArrayExpression.java:348)
  at oracle.odi.mapping.generation.ArrayExpression.<init>(ArrayExpression.java:324)
  at oracle.odi.mapping.generation.ArrayExpression.init(ArrayExpression.java:589)
  at oracle.odi.mapping.generation.ArrayExpression.init(ArrayExpression.java:427)
  at oracle.odi.mapping.generation.ArrayExpression.internalInitArrayExpression(ArrayExpression.java:412)
  at oracle.odi.mapping.generation.ArrayExpression.internalInitArrayExpression(ArrayExpression.java:348)
  at oracle.odi.mapping.generation.ArrayExpression.<init>(ArrayExpression.java:252)
  at oracle.odi.domain.mapping.component.km.SQLDatastoreCompKM.getSourceAndTargetExpressions(SQLDatastoreCompKM.java:222)
  at oracle.odi.domain.mapping.component.km.SQLDatastoreCompKM.INSERT(SQLDatastoreCompKM.java:347)
  at oracle.odi.domain.mapping.component.km.OracleDatastoreCompKM.INSERT(OracleDatastoreCompKM.java:134)
  at oracle.odi.domain.mapping.generator.GroovyComponentGeneratorDelegateBase.invokeASTProcessor(GroovyComponentGeneratorDelegateBase.java:161)
  at oracle.odi.domain.mapping.generator.GroovyComponentGeneratorDelegateBase.generateComponent(GroovyComponentGeneratorDelegateBase.java:68)
  at oracle.odi.domain.mapping.generator.MapComponentGenerator.generateComponent(MapComponentGenerator.java:259)
  at oracle.odi.domain.mapping.generator.MapComponentGenerator.generateComponent(MapComponentGenerator.java:146)
  at oracle.odi.domain.mapping.generator.MappingGenerator.generateTarget(MappingGenerator.java:2458)
  at oracle.odi.domain.mapping.generator.MappingGenerator.getEKMUsageList(MappingGenerator.java:2007)
  at oracle.odi.domain.mapping.generator.MappingGenerator.generateExecutableDetails(MappingGenerator.java:717)
  at oracle.odi.domain.mapping.generator.MappingGenerator.generateSession(MappingGenerator.java:367)
  ...

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