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AlertMultitenantCustomers:Theobjectscreatedbythepostinstallstepsof12.1.0.2Generic
DataPumpPatchesArenotSharedAcrossAllPDBS(DocID2175021.1)

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Description
Occurrence
Symptoms
Workaround
Patches
History
References

APPLIESTO:

OracleDatabaseEnterpriseEditionVersion12.1.0.2to12.1.0.2[Release12.1]
Informationinthisdocumentappliestoanyplatform.

DESCRIPTION

ThisalertisforBug23321125"DPLOADDOESN'TCREATETHESHAREDOBJECTSACROSSALLPDBS"whichcancause
dictionarycorruptioninthecontainerdatabasewhenapplyingGenericDataPumppatches.

OCCURRENCE

Thisissuehaspotentialtoaffectall12.1.0.2Multitenantenvironments.

ItwasdiscoveredwhenrunningthepostinstallstepofGenericDataPumpPatch22763372.

SYMPTOMS

Whendploadscriptisinternallylaunchedbydatapatchanditcreatesanewdatadictionaryobject,thisnewobjectisnot
markedasmetadatalinkedinacontainerdatabase.

Thenewdatadictionaryobjectsarecreatedonlyintherootcontainer(CDB$ROOT)andarenotmarkedasmetadatalinked.

ADDLinvokedbydatapatch(throughdpload)tocreateadatadictionaryobjectfailstocreatethesharedobjectsacrossall
PDBs.

Inacontainerwith3pluggabledatabases(includingPDBseed):

SQL>showpdbs

CON_IDCON_NAMEOPENMODERESTRICTED

2PDB$SEEDREADONLYNO
3PDB1READWRITENO
4PDB_TESTREADWRITENO

weshouldseethefollowingoutputfromcdb_objectsforanynewcreateddatadictionaryobject:.

selectcon_id,status,object_id,object_type,owner||'.'||object_name"OWNER.OBJECT"
fromcdb_objectswhereobject_namelike'%<NEW_OBJECT_NAME>%'orderby4,1

CON_IDSTATUSOBJECT_IDOBJECT_TYPEOWNER.OBJECT

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1VALID96022TYPE<NEW_OBJECT_NAME>
2VALID<object_id>TYPE<NEW_OBJECT_NAME>
3VALID<object_id>TYPE<NEW_OBJECT_NAME>
4VALID<object_id>TYPE<NEW_OBJECT_NAME>

Note:ReplaceNEW_OBJECT_NAMEwiththedatadictionaryobjectwhichiscreatedbythegenericDPpatch.Forexample,
withPatch22763372inplace,weshouldhaveKU$_RLS_POLICY_LIST_TcreatedacrossallPDBs.

butbecauseofBug23321125,theobjectiscreatedonlyinthecontainerdatabase(CDB$ROOT):

CON_IDSTATUSOBJECT_IDOBJECT_TYPEOWNER.OBJECT

1VALID96022TYPESYS.KU$_RLS_POLICY_LIST_T

andthesharedobjectsacrossallpluggabledatabasesaremissing.

Becauseofthisproblem,theDataPumpUtility(expdp/impdp)isnotusableonthepluggabledatabaseswhereaGenericDP
Patchisapplied.

WORKAROUND

ThereisnoworkaroundavailableotherthanreloadtheDataPumpUtilitybyrunningthedploadscriptversionsuppliedbyPatch
23321125.

TocorrecttheMultitenantenvironmentsalreadypatchedwithGenericDataPumpPatcheswhichmightintroducethisdata
dictionaryinconsistency,applyGenericPatch23321125andinstalltheSQLportionofthepatchbyrunningthefollowing
command:

$datapatch

Note:ForaRACenvironment,performthesestepsononlyonenode.

PATCHES

ThefixforBug22763372willbeincludedin12.2.

Inany12.1.0.2MultitenantenvironmentwherethereareplanstoinstallaGenericDataPumpPatch,applyfirstGenericPatch
23321125andinstalltheSQLportionofthepatchbyrunningthefollowingcommand:

$datapatchverbose

ForwhateverPBDalreadyaffectedbythisproblem,tofixtheissue,execute:

CDB
sqlplus/assysdba
@$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/utlrp.sql

PDB's
cd$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin
$ORACLE_HOME/perl/bin/perlcatcon.pln1ec<PDB_NAME>butlrpd'''.'''utlrp.sql
$ORACLE_HOME/perl/bin/perlcatcon.pln1ec<PDB_NAME>bdploadd'''.'''dpload.sql

connect/assysdba
altersessionsetcontainer=<PDB_NAME>
TobesurethatweareinthePDB,execute:
showcon_name
executesys.dbms_metadata_util.load_stylesheets

HISTORY
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REFERENCES

BUG:23321125DPLOADDOESN'TCREATETHESHAREDOBJECTSACROSSALLPDBS
BUG:22763372DATAPUMPRETURNSORA1427WHENEXPORTINGXS_SECURITY_CLASS
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