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Oracle Database 26ai Client and SQLNET.EXPIRE_TIME

We have been facing one issue at one of our customer where the Oracle Client connections remained opened for days blocking some avaloq JobNetz. We have been doing some tests and we could fortunately find a solution resolving the problem thanks to Oracle Database 26ai supporting now SQLNET.EXPIRE_TIME on the client side. Through this blog, I would like to share… 

SQLNET.EXPIRE_TIME and ENABLE=BROKEN

By Franck Pachot . Those parameters, SQLNET.EXPIRE_TIME in sqlnet.ora and ENABLE=BROKEN in a connection description exist for a long time but may have changed in behavior. They are both related to detecting dead TCP connections with keep-alive probes. The former from the server, and the latter from the client. The change in 12c is described in the following MOS note:…