ORAMTS TRANSACTION FAILS WHEN USING FULLY QUALIFIED TNS CON STRING

(Doc ID 1323238.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 25, 2017

Applies to:

Oracle Services for Microsoft Transaction Server - Version 11.1.0.7 to 11.1.0.7 [Release 11.1]
Oracle Provider for OLE DB - Version 11.1.0.7 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Using fully qualified TNS alias entries in your applications connection string is causing errors and/or application stack dumps when enlisting in distributed transactions.

For Example: string constr1 = "user id=scott;password=tiger;data
source=(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=myhostname)(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=orcl11107)))";

Cause

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