RMAN Connect Target fails RMAN-06900 RMAN-06901 ORA-19921: maximum number of 128 rows exceeded

APPLIES TO:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.1.0.2 to 11.2.0.4 [Release 10.1 to 11.2]
Enterprise Manager for Oracle Database - Version 10.2.0.4 to 10.2.0.4 [Release 10.2]
Information in this document applies to any platform.
***Checked for relevance on 18-July-2015*** 
 

SYMPTOMS

RMAN connect target raises errors:

 

connected to target database: VPOP01 (DBID=1378321056)
RMAN-06900: WARNING: unable to generate V$RMAN_STATUS or V$RMAN_OUTPUT row
RMAN-06901: WARNING: disabling update of the V$RMAN_STATUS and V$RMAN_OUTPUT rows
ORACLE error from target database:
ORA-19921: maximum number of 128 rows exceeded

The rman session/job however continues successfully.

 

CAUSE

- Unpublished bug 4659734 is fixed in 10.2.0.4 and Oracle 11G. 

Or

Bug 8264365: ORA-19921: MAXIMUM NUMBER OF 128 ROWS EXCEEDED

which is fixed in 11.2.0.2 and higher

SOLUTION

These warnings can be ignored and will not affect rman functionality.

 

Depending on your RDBMS version :

- Uptill 10.2.0.4 : Ignore the message

- 10.2.0.5 or higher :

Download Patch 8264365 to resolve this issue.

Bug 8264365 is related to the RMAN-executable only, so NOT to the TARGET or CATALOG databases itself. So you need to patch the ORACLE_HOME used by the RMAN-executable.