My Oracle Support Banner

Connection To an OCI DBCS PDB Failed With "ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified" (Doc ID 2674380.1)

Last updated on MAY 01, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A to N/A [Release 1.0]
Linux x86-64

Symptoms

Customer was unable to connect to the PDB. When connecting, they were getting

[oracle@hostname opc]$ sqlplus sys@<pdb> as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 12.2.0.1.0 Production on Fri May 15 08:26:16 2020

Copyright (c) 1982, 2016, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Enter password:
ERROR:
ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified

Changes

 

Cause

To view full details, sign in with your My Oracle Support account.

Don't have a My Oracle Support account? Click to get started!


In this Document
Symptoms
Changes
Cause
Solution
References


My Oracle Support provides customers with access to over a million knowledge articles and a vibrant support community of peers and Oracle experts.