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Connect to catalog in Oracle: ORA-12545: Connect failed because target host or object does not exist

Troubleshooting


Problem

A Data Manager catalog is held in an Oracle database. Attempting to connect to the catalog fails with an error.

Symptom

1. ERROR
DS-DBMS-E402: UDA driver reported the following:

UDA-SQL-0031 Unable to access the 'ALIAS_03E43FD8' database.

UDA-SQL-0532 Data Source is not accessible: 'TNS:MYORCL'.

ORA-12545: Connect failed because target host or object does not exist

[{"Product":{"code":"SSEP7J","label":"Cognos Business Intelligence"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU048","label":"IBM Software"},"Component":"Data Manager","Platform":[{"code":"PF033","label":"Windows"}],"Version":"8.1;8.2","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB76","label":"Data Platform"}},{"Product":{"code":"SS6G84","label":"IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU048","label":"IBM Software"},"Component":" ","Platform":[{"code":"","label":""}],"Version":"","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB76","label":"Data Platform"}}]

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1030720

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Modified date:
30 April 2025

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