Re-importing a package fails

Question

Hi,
usually, you can always re-import a package into OWB (10gR2) and synchronize it with the database. But I have the phenomenon that some (not all) packages fail in this process; after pressing Finish the import wizard dies and does almost nothing. I tracked it down to the the DebugSQL.000.log file and found as last entry:
select line, text from all_source@owb_1335 where owner = 'DWH_ADMIN' and name = 'UTIL' and type = 'PACKAGE' order by line
With other packages which do the re-import perfectly the next line would be the analogous query to read the PACKAGE BODY. This would indicate an overflow issue, but the package isn't big at all and works well when imported into another module. I cannot find any trace log of this failure. And - strange enough - the failing process is still able to drop the temporary database link owb_nnnn.
Some ideas
regards
Thomas

Answer 1

Hi Borkur,
Dropping and re-importing the package would work well (works for another module) but this is a package whose procedures and functions are heavily referenced in several mappings and process flows (supports the custom job management). So, I would be forced to re-synchronize them all which I want to avoid. The other way would be to modify the package manually (only the signature is needed not the code since I will not deploy it from OWB, in fact, I deployed it from Oracle Designer !!!). But OWB Paris doesn't allow this. Once imported, always imported. You can modify imported tables, procedures, functions but not packages. Or is there a way ???
regards
Thomas