MySQL to Oracle Migration Issue - Unknown character set index for field.

Hi,
Looking for help..!!!
Migrating mySQL - version 4 database to Oracle 10g using oracle migration work bench. It went well until the last step. But, during the data migration, OMWB has given the following error:
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Unable to migrate data from source table gets.sales_order_01 to destination table gets_ora.sales_order_oracle10: gets_ora.sales_order_oracle10; Unknown character set index for filed "12596" received from ser.
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Log file shows:
java.sql.SQLException: Unknown character set index for field '12596' received from server.
     at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.getCharsetNameForIndex(Connection.java:1692)
     at com.mysql.jdbc.Field.<init>(Field.java:161)
     at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.unpackField(MysqlIO.java:510)
     at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.getResultSet(MysqlIO.java:285)
     at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:1326)
     at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQuery(MysqlIO.java:1225)
     at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.execSQL(Connection.java:2278)
     at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.execSQL(Connection.java:2225)
     at com.mysql.jdbc.Statement.executeQuery(Statement.java:1163)
     at oracle.mtg.migrationServer.LoadTableData._migrateTableData(LoadTableData.java:563)
     at oracle.mtg.migrationServer.LoadTableData.run(LoadTableData.java:326)
     at oracle.mtg.migration.WorkerThread.run(Worker.java:268)
I appreciate your help in this regards.
Regards,
K

Hi K,
Whats the default character set of you MySQL and Oracle Databases.
What version of JDBC driver are you using?
Is there any unicode characters used in your data?
Have you tried offline data move?
Thanks
Dermot.
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