ORA-12899 Value Too Large For Column INV.MTL_SYSTEM_ITEMS_TL.DESCRIPTION (Doc ID 2028878.1)

Last updated on JUNE 02, 2017

Applies to:

Oracle Inventory Management - Version 11.5.10.2 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

You find you cannot store the Description for Master Items with Russian language.

This is the error:

You are trying to update description with a 480-character string, but the field is only 240 characters maximum.
Is there a way to accommodate this need?
 

Solution

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