Unable to start replicat due to invalid username/password

Question

below is my parameter:
REPLICAT MSREP
SOURCEDEFS /u01/app/oracle/gg/dirdef/emp.def
USERID gg_user, PASSWORD welcome1
MAP hrschema.emp, TARGET gg_user.emp;
when I start the replicat, I got an error invalid username/password. If I log into SQLPLUS with the same username/password, it's working fine.......
thoughts?

Answer 1

It doesn't know. A GGS install directory can have Extracts and Replicats for any number of databases on a server. If you really do want to use a different GGS install directory for each database (which you certainly don't have to), then you can simply name your OGG intall directories to suit your needs, such as /u01/app/oracle/product/ogg/db1 and /u01/app/oracle/product/ogg/db2.
If you use only 1 OGG install directory, then when you add and Extract or Replicat, there's an option in the command to add a description as well, and you could put something in each description like "Extract for DB1" or "Replicat for DB2", and when you query those components in GGSCI with INFO ALL for example, you'd see that description next to the name of the component.
Also, for Oracle databases, your Replicat and Extract can contain a SETENV parameter which includes the ability to set the ORACLE_HOME and SID for the respective database.
For example:
SETENV (ORACLE_HOME = “/home/oracle/ora9/product”)
SETENV (ORACLE_SID = “ora9”)
If this were SQL Server, your connection parameter in the Extract or Replicat would point to a System DSN (such as DBLOGIN SOURCEDB dsn_name) and that DSN that you reference and create with the ODBC applet, contains the db instance and database name, which makes it unique.