Large DDL causes ORA-06502 in several Applications

I Created a Table with
CREATE TABLE large_table (
c001 VARCHAR(2) NOT NULL
and added columns with
ALTER TABLE large_table ADD c002 VARCHAR(2) NOT NULL;
ALTER TABLE large_table ADD c060 VARCHAR(2) NOT NULL;
The DDL of this table cannot be executed eg. in SqlDeveloper, sqlplus, ... and it cannot be imported from a dump with exp! Importing causes:
Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
Export file created by EXPORT:V10.02.01 via conventional path
import done in WE8ISO8859P15 character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set
. importing RLODEVEL's objects into RLODEVEL
. importing RLODEVEL's objects into RLODEVEL
IMP-00017: following statement failed with ORACLE error 604:
"CREATE TABLE "LARGE_TABLE" ("C001" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C002" VARC"
"HAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C003" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C004" VARCHAR"
"2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C005" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C006" VARCHAR2(2"
") NOT NULL ENABLE, "C007" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C008" VARCHAR2(2) N"
"OT NULL ENABLE, "C009" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C010" VARCHAR2(2) NOT "
"NULL ENABLE, "C011" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C012" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NUL"
"L ENABLE, "C013" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C014" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL E"
"NABLE, "C015" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C016" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENAB"
"LE, "C017" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C018" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE,"
" "C019" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C020" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C"
"021" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C022" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C023"
"" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C024" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C025" V"
"ARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C027" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C026" VARC"
"HAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C028" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C029" VARCHAR"
"2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C030" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C031" VARCHAR2(2"
") NOT NULL ENABLE, "C032" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C033" VARCHAR2(2) N"
"OT NULL ENABLE, "C034" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C035" VARCHAR2(2) NOT "
"NULL ENABLE, "C036" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C037" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NUL"
"L ENABLE, "C038" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C039" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL E"
"NABLE, "C040" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C041" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENAB"
"LE, "C042" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C043" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE,"
" "C044" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C045" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C"
"046" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C047" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C048"
"" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C049" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C050" V"
"ARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C051" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C052" VARC"
"HAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C053" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C054" VARCHAR"
"2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C055" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C056" VARCHAR2(2"
") NOT NULL ENABLE, "C057" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C058" VARCHAR2(2) N"
"OT NULL ENABLE, "C059" VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "C060" VARCHAR2(2) NOT "
"NULL ENABLE) PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE(INITIAL"
" 65536 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "USERS"
"" LOGGING NOCOMPRESS"
IMP-00003: ORACLE error 604 encountered
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small
ORA-06512: at line 25
Import terminated successfully with warnings.
I'm quite sure, this problem is well known, but I did not find a hint in metalink or the rest of the internet.

Sorry, the example has not been tested well :(
But I just had to duplicate the number of columns to get the error both in SqlDeveloper, SqlPlus and (still) imp. That sqlplus and imp have different limits in DDL-size confuses me even more :-/
CREATE TABLE LARGE_TABLE (
C001 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C002 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C003 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C004 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C005 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C006 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C007 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C008 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C009 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C010 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C011 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C012 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C013 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C014 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C015 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C016 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C017 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C018 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C019 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C020 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C021 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C022 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C023 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C024 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C025 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C027 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C026 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C028 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C029 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C030 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C031 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C032 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C033 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C034 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C035 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C036 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C037 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C038 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C039 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C040 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C041 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C042 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C043 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C044 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C045 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C046 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C047 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C048 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C049 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C050 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C051 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C052 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C053 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C054 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C055 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C056 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C057 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C058 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C059 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C060 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C101 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C102 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C103 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C104 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C105 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C106 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C107 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C108 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C109 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C110 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C111 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C112 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C113 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C114 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C115 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C116 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C117 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C118 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C119 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C120 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C121 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C122 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C123 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C124 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C125 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C127 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C126 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C128 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C129 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C130 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C131 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C132 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C133 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C134 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C135 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C136 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C137 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C138 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C139 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C140 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C141 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C142 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C143 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C144 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C145 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C146 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C147 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C148 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C149 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C150 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C151 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C152 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C153 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C154 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C155 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C156 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
C157 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C158 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C159 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL , C160 VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL
PCTFREE 10
PCTUSED 40
INITRANS 1
MAXTRANS 255
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT)
TABLESPACE USERS
LOGGING
NOCOMPRESS
CREATE TABLE LARGE_TABLE (
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small
ORA-06512: at line 25

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Cause:     An arithmetic, numeric, string, conversion, or constraint error occurred. For example, this error occurs if an attempt is made to assign the value NULL to a variable declared NOT NULL, or if an attempt is made to assign an integer larger than 99 to a variable declared NUMBER(2).
Action:     Change the data, how it is manipulated, or how it is declared so that values do not violate constraints.
For more use this link. I am certain you will get an solution.
http://ora-06502.ora-code.com/
Thanks
Shivank

ORA-20001 and ORA-06502

Hi all,
after 6 months, my production application starts to show the same error on the report:
ORA-20001: Error fetching column value: ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small
The error occurs in the same type of page (form based on a table where i added a report with details) and if i change the column with Display As LOV (not save the state) with standard Report Column all works fine and if change again to Display As LOV (not save the state) dosn't work.
At the moment i changed all query of the report to don't use the Display As LOV (not save the state) in the report, but why the application now get this error?
Thanks,
Sergio

Sergio - I'm surprised that a hundred rows causes the Display As Text (based on LOV, save/does not save the state) to blow out. I'd expect no problems up to 5000 rows or so. I'd like to see an example of your case. The limitation on select lists is usually related to either the size of an individual report column (4000 max) or the size of a report row (32K max) in which a select-list lov is used. The total size of the HTML returned counts towards these limits. The problem for select-list items on a page is that large select lists mean lots of HTML on the page making the page heavy and burdening the network.
Scott

Invalid function body condition: ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error:

I'm trying to customize my link column on an interactive report to branch to another page in my application based on a pl/sql call. My condition type for the link column is pl/sql function body returning a boolean. I'm calling a packaged function that returns a boolean but receive the following error:
Invalid function body condition: ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small
This is my code:
return files_util.list_files('test','test');
I've tried running the same code in sqlplus and it works fine. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Rob

It turns out I had multiple issues. I thought the code I was running for the link column would be executed and let me branch to another page to view the results of my pl/sql code. It appears that the pl/sql code for the link column only controls whether the link is displayed or not. The reason for the ora-6502 was because a variable in my pl/sql function was not large enough to hold a value based on the userid signing onto the application. I'm using database authentication so I thought that the userid in apex would be my database userid which is only 4 characters. The userid actually used is apex_public_user which caused by ora-6502 error.

Java.sql.SQLException: ORA-06502: PL/SQL in EBS R12

Hi everyone,
May you please help me diagnose the problem.
Oracle EBS 12.0.0.6, DB(10.2.0.3) on one machine and App(forms, concurrent manager, etc) on other machine, both AIX 5.3.
I have following failed concurrent request:
*====================================================*
Payables: Version : 12.0.0
Copyright (c) 1979, 1999, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
APPPBR module: AP Prepayment Balance Report
Current system time is 12-MAY-2010 15:33:36
XDO Data Engine Version No: 5.6.3
Resp: 50661
Org ID : 81
Request ID: 449826
All Parameters: ORG_ID_PARAM=81:COA_ID_PARAM=50328:FROM_DATE_PARAM="2010/05/12 00:00:00":TO_DATE_PARAM=:PERIOD_FROM_PARAM=JUL-09:PERIOD_TO_PARAM=MAY-
10:CURR_CODE_PARAM=:ACCOUNT_FROM_PARAM=:ACCOUNT_TO_PARAM=:SUPPLIER_FROM_PARAM=Adel Bin Abdullah Bin Taha Al
Hadad:SUPPLIER_TO_PARAM=:PAID_ONLY_PARAM=:POSTED_ONLY_PARAM=:DUMMY_PARAM=2
Data Template Code: APPPBR
Data Template Application Short Name: SQLAP
Debug Flag: N
{ORG_ID_PARAM=81, PERIOD_FROM_PARAM=JUL-09, CURR_CODE_PARAM=, DUMMY_PARAM=2, PAID_ONLY_PARAM=, PERIOD_TO_PARAM=MAY-10, POSTED_ONLY_PARAM=,
ACCOUNT_FROM_PARAM=, SUPPLIER_FROM_PARAM=Adel Bin Abdullah Bin Taha Al Hadad, SUPPLIER_TO_PARAM=, TO_DATE_PARAM=, ACCOUNT_TO_PARAM=,
FROM_DATE_PARAM=2010/05/12 00:00:00, COA_ID_PARAM=50328}
Calling XDO Data Engine...
[051210_033341921][][STATEMENT] Start process Data
[051210_033341922][][STATEMENT] Process Data ...
[051210_033341924][][STATEMENT] Executing data triggers...
[051210_033341924][][STATEMENT] BEGIN
AP_BAL_PKG.ORG_ID_PARAM := :ORG_ID_PARAM ;
AP_BAL_PKG.COA_ID_PARAM := :COA_ID_PARAM ;
AP_BAL_PKG.FROM_DATE_PARAM := :FROM_DATE_PARAM ;
AP_BAL_PKG.TO_DATE_PARAM := :TO_DATE_PARAM ;
AP_BAL_PKG.PERIOD_FROM_PARAM := :PERIOD_FROM_PARAM ;
AP_BAL_PKG.PERIOD_TO_PARAM := :PERIOD_TO_PARAM ;
AP_BAL_PKG.CURR_CODE_PARAM := :CURR_CODE_PARAM ;
AP_BAL_PKG.ACCOUNT_FROM_PARAM := :ACCOUNT_FROM_PARAM ;
AP_BAL_PKG.ACCOUNT_TO_PARAM := :ACCOUNT_TO_PARAM ;
AP_BAL_PKG.SUPPLIER_FROM_PARAM := :SUPPLIER_FROM_PARAM ;
AP_BAL_PKG.SUPPLIER_TO_PARAM := :SUPPLIER_TO_PARAM ;
AP_BAL_PKG.PAID_ONLY_PARAM := :PAID_ONLY_PARAM ;
AP_BAL_PKG.POSTED_ONLY_PARAM := :POSTED_ONLY_PARAM ;
AP_BAL_PKG.DUMMY_PARAM := :DUMMY_PARAM ;
:XDO_OUT_PARAMETER := 1;
END;
[051210_033341927][][STATEMENT] 1:81 :
[051210_033341928][][STATEMENT] 2:50328 :
[051210_033341928][][STATEMENT] 3:2010/05/12 00:00:00 :
[051210_033341928][][STATEMENT] 4: :
[051210_033341928][][STATEMENT] 5:JUL-09 :
[051210_033341928][][STATEMENT] 6:MAY-10 :
[051210_033341928][][STATEMENT] 7: :
[051210_033341928][][STATEMENT] 8: :
[051210_033341928][][STATEMENT] 9: :
[051210_033341928][][STATEMENT] 10:Adel Bin Abdullah Bin Taha Al Hadad :
[051210_033341928][][STATEMENT] 11: :
[051210_033341928][][STATEMENT] 12: :
[051210_033341929][][STATEMENT] 13: :
[051210_033341929][][STATEMENT] 14:2 :
[051210_033341940][][EXCEPTION] SQLException encounter while executing data trigger....
java.sql.SQLException: ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small
ORA-06512: at line 11
     at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:112)
     at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:331)
     at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:288)
     at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.receive(T4C8Oall.java:745)
     at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CCallableStatement.doOall8(T4CCallableStatement.java:215)
     at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CCallableStatement.executeForRows(T4CCallableStatement.java:965)
     at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.doExecuteWithTimeout(OracleStatement.java:1170)
     at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.executeInternal(OraclePreparedStatement.java:3339)
     at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.execute(OraclePreparedStatement.java:3445)
     at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleCallableStatement.execute(OracleCallableStatement.java:4395)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.dataengine.XMLPGEN.executeTriggers(XMLPGEN.java:650)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.dataengine.XMLPGEN.processData(XMLPGEN.java:262)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.dataengine.XMLPGEN.processXML(XMLPGEN.java:215)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.dataengine.XMLPGEN.writeXML(XMLPGEN.java:254)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.dataengine.DataProcessor.processDataStructre(DataProcessor.java:390)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.dataengine.DataProcessor.processData(DataProcessor.java:355)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.oa.util.DataTemplate.processData(DataTemplate.java:348)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.oa.cp.JCP4XDODataEngine.runProgram(JCP4XDODataEngine.java:293)
     at oracle.apps.fnd.cp.request.Run.main(Run.java:157)
Start of log messages from FND_FILE
End of log messages from FND_FILE
Executing request completion options...
------------- 1) PUBLISH -------------
Beginning post-processing of request 449826 on node EBSCL1 at 12-MAY-2010 15:33:42.
Post-processing of request 449826 failed at 12-MAY-2010 15:33:42 with the error message:
One or more post-processing actions failed. Consult the OPP service log for details.
Finished executing request completion options.
Concurrent request completed
Current system time is 12-MAY-2010 15:33:42
*====================================================*
When I look at OPP Log, following is the info:
*====================================================*
[5/12/10 3:33:42 PM] [OPPServiceThread0] Post-processing request 449826.
[5/12/10 3:33:42 PM] [28164:RT449826] Executing post-processing actions for request 449826.
[5/12/10 3:33:42 PM] [28164:RT449826] Starting XML Publisher post-processing action.
[5/12/10 3:33:42 PM] [28164:RT449826]
Template code: APPPBR
Template app: SQLAP
Language: en
Territory: US
Output type: RTF
[5/12/10 3:33:42 PM] [UNEXPECTED] [28164:RT449826] java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:64)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:615)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.common.xml.XSLT10gR1.invokeParse(XSLT10gR1.java:517)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.common.xml.XSLT10gR1.transform(XSLT10gR1.java:224)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.common.xml.XSLTWrapper.transform(XSLTWrapper.java:177)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.template.fo.util.FOUtility.generateFO(FOUtility.java:1044)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.template.fo.util.FOUtility.generateFO(FOUtility.java:997)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.template.fo.util.FOUtility.generateFO(FOUtility.java:212)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.template.FOProcessor.createFO(FOProcessor.java:1665)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.template.FOProcessor.generate(FOProcessor.java:975)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.oa.schema.server.TemplateHelper.runProcessTemplate(TemplateHelper.java:5926)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.oa.schema.server.TemplateHelper.processTemplate(TemplateHelper.java:3458)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.oa.schema.server.TemplateHelper.processTemplate(TemplateHelper.java:3547)
     at oracle.apps.fnd.cp.opp.XMLPublisherProcessor.process(XMLPublisherProcessor.java:259)
     at oracle.apps.fnd.cp.opp.OPPRequestThread.run(OPPRequestThread.java:172)
Caused by: oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XMLParseException: Start of root element expected.
     at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XMLError.flushErrors1(XMLError.java:337)
     at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseRootElement(NonValidatingParser.java:343)
     at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseDocument(NonValidatingParser.java:285)
     at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:289)
     ... 17 more
[5/12/10 3:33:42 PM] [28164:RT449826] Completed post-processing actions for request 449826.
*====================================================*
Br,
Anjum

Hi,
It seems like a bug as per metalink note:
APPPBR : AP Prepayment Balance Report Error Out java.sql.SQLException: ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small ORA-06512: at line 11 [ID 827325.1]
Anyway, if you have any relevant information, please share.
Br,
Anjum

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Hi guys,
I have a Format Trigger code to not display any amount less than 1.00 at a group frame level and outside of the group frame is the Grand Total in my report but I am getting
" REP-1401: ' r_headerformattrigger ' : Fatal PL/SQL error occurred.
"ORA-06502 : PL/SQL: numeric or value error"
every time I try to run it.
function R_headerFormatTrigger return boolean is
begin
if :c_header_amount_accrual1_disp > 0.99 then
return (TRUE);
else
return (FALSE);
end if;
end;
Does any one have any idea as why?

read this code
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Action: Change the data, how it is manipulated, or how it is declared so that values do not violate constraints
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