UTL_TCP.OPEN_CONNECTION RETURNS ORA-20002: INVALID ARGUMENT

The RAISE keyword should not be there.


Andrew

To elaborate on Andrew's comment...the raise statement "RAISE;" is inappropriate for an anonymous PL/SQL block.  It's intended use is to propagate an error back to the calling procedure (which does not exist in an anonymous block).
Regards,
JT

Hi,

first of all I want to say that's really strange guys to say that RAISE is the problem here!!! hey, come-on, you must be kidding!

I'm just looking to the error and it's 20002 which means that is a user-defined exception inside utl_tcp package. So I think that probably the utl_tcp is not proper installed. Did you installed directly from the kit or take it from another server type!!! It's about CRLF I think!

Anybody has another suggestion,
Marius Nicoras

It was installed during the install of Oracle 8.1.7 on HP/UX 11.

I think I agree that it is probably an installation problem as it worked from a Win2000 install of 8.1.7. I wonder if there is an easy way to reinstall it.

Try running the initplsj.sql as SYS to make necessary Java components accessible via PL/SQL

Pradeep

I ran your code exactly as you posted it, just changed the server name to my SMTP server and it worked just fine!!


zgeda1_GEDAC2> Declare
  2   con UTL_TCP.connection;
  3   ret PLS_INTEGER;
  4   Begin
  5   con := UTL_TCP.open_connection ('www.xxx.com',25);
  6   dbms_output.put_line('Connection Opened');
  7   UTL_TCP.close_connection(con);
  8   dbms_output.put_line('Fini.');
  9   exception
 10   when others then
 11   UTL_TCP.close_all_connections;
 12   raise;
 13  End;
 14  /
Connection Opened
Fini.

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.



sora

The reinstallation of the jvm did it I think. I tried just the initplsj.sql before and that didn't help.

Thanks very much all of you for your help. :)

Ryan