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UDI-00018 error when using impdp Version 12.2 for dump with Version 12.1

user9179445Jul 18 2019 — edited Jul 21 2019

Hi all,

I have a Dump file created with a database version 12.1 and I want to import this file in another 12.1 database. On my local machine I have a database with version 12.2.0.1.0; with the impdp command running on my local machine I always get the error

UDI-00018: Data Pump client is incompatible with database version 12.1.0.2.0

I have tried to use the parameter version on the impdp command but it seems to have no effect. Copying the impdp.exe from a version 12.1 database installation in the 12.2 bin directory is not working also.

The only way to get the dump imported is to use PL/SQL package and do it in the db schema directly.

What do I have to do to use the impdp command line utility? I would expect that there are not much compability problems within 12.2 and 12.1 on the import process.