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Why does DB Connect 2 get "not supported type" trying to retrieve an XMLType Column while DB Connect 1 retrieves it successfully?

jamiemccallion
Explorer

This is an interesting one...

Splunk DB Connect 1 connects to the Oracle 11g db and retrieves an XMLType column just fine when queried like so:

SELECT FIELD1,X.XML_DOCUMENT.GETCLOBVAL() as XML_DOC,FIELD2,FIELD3,FIELD4,FIELD5 FROM Data.table X

Splunk DB Connect 2 - same driver, same database, same credentials, same command, gets
"## Not Supported Type ##" for the XML_DOC field, but the others come back fine.

ojdbc6.jar in both cases.
DBX v1 is using built-in OS Java version (1.7.0, IBM)
DBX v2 is using a local Java (1.8.0_45, Oracle)

What do you think? Java version problem? DBXv2 code problem?
Has anyone else encountered this?

Thanks for any assistance!

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jamiemccallion
Explorer

Sorry, should have replied a couple of weeks ago.
I tested some more, and identified that it wasn't a Java problem (using a DBXv1 release supports Java 8).

Case was raised with support, and a bug identified in 2.0.x with the way that it handles some field-types in the response from the database.

Support advised that it will be resolved in a future release of DBX2; workaround is to continue using DBXv1 for those specific problem field-types in the interim.

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jamiemccallion
Explorer

Sorry, should have replied a couple of weeks ago.
I tested some more, and identified that it wasn't a Java problem (using a DBXv1 release supports Java 8).

Case was raised with support, and a bug identified in 2.0.x with the way that it handles some field-types in the response from the database.

Support advised that it will be resolved in a future release of DBX2; workaround is to continue using DBXv1 for those specific problem field-types in the interim.

nekbote
Path Finder

Well we upgraded from DBXv1 to DBXv2 as we were losing records while using dump with DBXv1 ...purpose of upgrading to DBXv2 has failed [atleast for the moment] due to "## Not Supported Type ##".

Isn't there any work around at all with DBXv2? Any idea when will the future release be?

Any response will be appreciated.

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jcoates_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Hi,

I think that this will be about Java versions... We don't support IBM Java for DBX 1 or 2, by the way.

  • DB Connect version 1.1.7, we support Oracle Java 7
  • DB Connect version 1.2.0, we support Oracle Java 8
  • DB Connect version 1.2.1, we support Oracle Java 7 or 8
  • DB Connect version 2.*, we support Oracle Java 8

If it works with 1.2.1, Oracle Java 8, but then doesn't work with DB Connect 2 and the same environment, then it's a DB Connect bug and needs a support case.

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amielke
Communicator

Has anyone found a solution?

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