ORA-29855 and ORA-38500 trying to run DBMS_RLMGR.CREATE_RULE_CLASS

Question

SR 6892323.993.
IHAC who hit this error and whatever we try it does not seem to help.
In OSS DBA we are also labouring under a great ignorance of EXFIL and RLMGR.
I summarised the problem for ARE and that summary follows:
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ARE REVIEW REQUEST
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BEGIN
DBMS_RLMGR.CREATE_RULE_CLASS (
rule_class => 'TravelPromotion', -- rule class name --
event_struct => 'AddFlight', -- event struct name --
action_cbk => 'PromoAction', -- callback proc name –-
rslt_viewnm => 'MatchingPromos', -- results view --
actprf_spec => 'PromoType VARCHAR(20),
OfferedBy VARCHAR(20)');
END;
ORA-29855: error occurred in the execution of ODCIINDEXCREATE routine
ORA-38500: Failed to process predicate table storage attributes
ORA-06512: at "EXFSYS.DBMS_RLMGR", line 571
ORA-06512: at line 3
SUMMARY:
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10.2.0.3 on HP-UX Itanium.
BEGIN
DBMS_RLMGR.CREATE_RULE_CLASS (
rule_class => 'TravelPromotion', -- rule class name --
event_struct => 'AddFlight', -- event struct name --
action_cbk => 'PromoAction', -- callback proc name –-
rslt_viewnm => 'MatchingPromos', -- results view --
actprf_spec => 'PromoType VARCHAR(20),
OfferedBy VARCHAR(20)');
END;
ORA-29855: error occurred in the execution of ODCIINDEXCREATE routine
ORA-38500: Failed to process predicate table storage attributes
ORA-06512: at "EXFSYS.DBMS_RLMGR", line 571
ORA-06512: at line 3
Error(s)
ORA-29855: error occurred in the execution of ODCIINDEXCREATE routine
ORA-38500: Failed to process predicate table storage attributes
ORA-06512: at "EXFSYS.DBMS_RLMGR", line 571
ORA-06512: at line 3
Research / Docs used :
Bug 6708565 - Note 6708565.8
Bug 5697037 in 11g - Abstract: ORA-38441 WHEN CREATE RULE CLASS
Looks similar although it behaves differently
"... When a non-composite rule class is created for an object type
with embedded types, the default indexes created for a rule
class fail to derive the index parameters with scalar types."
Note 472937.1 - deinstall/reinstall
All looks fine and valid
Observations / Findings:
Deinstall/reinstall of RUl and EXF
Got errorstack.
Actual statement that filas in the errorstack is:
ORA-38500: Failed to process predicate table storage attributes
Current SQL statement for this session:
create index RLM$EXFIDX_706138 on "TRAVELPROMOTION" ("RLM$RULECOND") indextype is exfsys.expfilter PARAMETERS (' PREDSTORAGE ( )')
As you can see clause PREDSTORAGE is empty - client thinks this is a the problem.
nls_length_semantics string CHAR
... also stried under SYS but still fails
CURRENT QUESTION:
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I need to clarify the below points/actions:
Since we cannot repro this, it would be hard to bug this.
Have no product knowledge (who has?)
Client is very unhappy
Need some insight into what is wrong.
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Can the forum help please?

Answer 1

Hi Aravind,
I have emailed to you our attempts to repro this in-house.
The results the client got when trying your workaround were as follows:
Test reuslt 1 - With correct tbs name.
SQL>
BEGIN
DBMS_RLMGR.CREATE_RULE_CLASS (
rule_class => 'TravelPromotion', -- rule class name --
event_struct => 'AddFlight', -- event struct name --
action_cbk => 'PromoAction', -- callback proc name –-
rslt_viewnm => 'MatchingPromos', -- results view --
actprf_spec => 'PromoType VARCHAR(20), OfferedBy VARCHAR(20)',
rlcls_prop => '<simple storage="tablespace AFPAPPL"/>');
END;
ORA-29855: error occurred in the execution of ODCIINDEXCREATE routine
ORA-38500: Failed to process predicate table storage attributes
ORA-06512: at "EXFSYS.DBMS_RLMGR", line 571
ORA-06512: at line 3
BEGIN
DBMS_RLMGR.CREATE_RULE_CLASS (
rule_class => 'TravelPromotion', -- rule class name --
event_struct => 'AddFlight', -- event struct name --
action_cbk => 'PromoAction', -- callback proc name –-
rslt_viewnm => 'MatchingPromos', -- results view --
actprf_spec => 'PromoType VARCHAR(20), OfferedBy VARCHAR(20)',
rlcls_prop => '<simple storage="tablespace AFPAPPL1"/>');
END;
ORA-41607: rule class creation failed with ORA-959
ORA-06512: at "EXFSYS.DBMS_RLMGR", line 571
ORA-06512: at line 3
Thx