SPE Deenveloping Service encounters an exception due to Oracle JDBC 12.1.0.2.0 driver version with error: ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column

Symptom

An exception similar to the following may be reported in the speservices.log.* file.

[2017-02-23 15:04:49.695] ERROR SPEDeenveloping caught exception
[2017-02-23 15:04:49.695] ERROR [1487880289695] The transaction has been rolled back. See the nested exceptions for details on the errors that occurred.
[2017-02-23 15:04:49.699] ERRORDTL [1487880289695]<openjpa-2.4.0-r422266:1674604 fatal store error> org.apache.openjpa.persistence.RollbackException: The transaction has been rolled back. See the nested exceptions for details on the errors that occurred.
at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.EntityManagerImpl.commit(EntityManagerImpl.java:593)
at com.ibm.spe.core.persistence.SPEPersistenceProvider.commit(SPEPersistenceProvider.java:393)
at com.ibm.spe.core.systeminterface.SPEThreadState.commit(SPEThreadState.java:220)
at com.ibm.spe.core.systeminterface.SPE.commit(SPE.java:951)
at com.ibm.b2b.services.deenvelope.SPEDeenveloping.processData(SPEDeenveloping.java:305)
at com.sterlingcommerce.woodstock.workflow.activity.engine.ActivityEngineHelper.invokeService(ActivityEngineHelper.java:1826)
at com.sterlingcommerce.woodstock.workflow.activity.engine.ActivityEngineHelper.nextMainLogic(ActivityEngineHelper.java:631)
at com.sterlingcommerce.woodstock.workflow.activity.engine.ActivityEngineHelper.next(ActivityEngineHelper.java:362)
at com.sterlingcommerce.woodstock.workflow.queue.WorkFlowQueueListener.doWork(WorkFlowQueueListener.java:459)
at com.sterlingcommerce.woodstock.workflow.queue.WorkFlowQueueListener.run(WorkFlowQueueListener.java:240)
at com.sterlingcommerce.woodstock.workflow.queue.WorkFlowQueueListener.onMessage(WorkFlowQueueListener.java:197)
at com.sterlingcommerce.woodstock.workflow.queue.WorkFlowQueueListener.onMessage(WorkFlowQueueListener.java:184)
at com.sterlingcommerce.woodstock.workflow.queue.wfTransporter.run(wfTransporter.java:444)
at com.sterlingcommerce.woodstock.workflow.queue.BasicExecutor$Worker.run(BasicExecutor.java:508)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:798)
Caused by: <openjpa-2.4.0-r422266:1674604 fatal store error> org.apache.openjpa.persistence.OptimisticLockException: The transaction has been rolled back. See the nested exceptions for details on the errors that occurred.
at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.BrokerImpl.newFlushException(BrokerImpl.java:2368)
at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.BrokerImpl.flush(BrokerImpl.java:2205)
at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.BrokerImpl.flushSafe(BrokerImpl.java:2103)
at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.BrokerImpl.beforeCompletion(BrokerImpl.java:2021)
at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.LocalManagedRuntime.commit(LocalManagedRuntime.java:81)
at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.BrokerImpl.commit(BrokerImpl.java:1526)
at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.DelegatingBroker.commit(DelegatingBroker.java:932)
at org.apache.openjpa.persistence.EntityManagerImpl.commit(EntityManagerImpl.java:569)
... 14 more
Caused by: <openjpa-2.4.0-r422266:1674604 fatal store error> org.apache.openjpa.persistence.OptimisticLockException: Unable to obtain an object lock on "null".
at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.DBDictionary.narrow(DBDictionary.java:4983)
at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.DBDictionary.newStoreException(DBDictionary.java:4961)
at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.SQLExceptions.getStore(SQLExceptions.java:133)
at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.SQLExceptions.getStore(SQLExceptions.java:107)
at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.SQLExceptions.getStore(SQLExceptions.java:59)
at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.kernel.AbstractUpdateManager.flush(AbstractUpdateManager.java:120)
at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.kernel.AbstractUpdateManager.flush(AbstractUpdateManager.java:77)
at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.kernel.JDBCStoreManager.flush(JDBCStoreManager.java:731)
at org.apache.openjpa.kernel.DelegatingStoreManager.flush(DelegatingStoreManager.java:131)
... 21 more
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column

at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:450)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:399)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.processError(T4C8Oall.java:1059)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIfun.receive(T4CTTIfun.java:522)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIfun.doRPC(T4CTTIfun.java:257)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.doOALL(T4C8Oall.java:587)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CPreparedStatement.doOall8(T4CPreparedStatement.java:225)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CPreparedStatement.doOall8(T4CPreparedStatement.java:53)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CPreparedStatement.executeForRows(T4CPreparedStatement.java:943)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.doExecuteWithTimeout(OracleStatement.java:1150)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.executeInternal(OraclePreparedStatement.java:4798)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.executeUpdate(OraclePreparedStatement.java:4875)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.UpdatableResultSet.executeUpdateRow(UpdatableResultSet.java:1432)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.UpdatableResultSet.updateRow(UpdatableResultSet.java:828)
at org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingResultSet.updateRow(DelegatingResultSet.java:261)
at org.apache.openjpa.lib.jdbc.DelegatingResultSet.updateRow(DelegatingResultSet.java:551)
at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.DBDictionary.updateBlob(DBDictionary.java:5123)
at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.meta.strats.LobFieldStrategy.customInsert(LobFieldStrategy.java:117)
at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.meta.FieldMapping.customInsert(FieldMapping.java:818)
at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.kernel.AbstractUpdateManager$CustomMapping.execute(AbstractUpdateManager.java:434)
at org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.kernel.AbstractUpdateManager.flush(AbstractUpdateManager.java:118)
... 24 more