LogMiner and Oracle 8.0

Hi,

I am trying to analyze Oracle 8.0 archived redo logs with the LogMiner package of Oracle8i.

The log files are taken from a Sun E450 running Solaris 2.5.1 and Oracle 8.0.5.1.0 . After generating the dictionary on that machine I both transferred the dictionary file and 3 sample archived redo logs to our Oracle 8.1.5 test installation on a Sun E10 running Solaris 2.6. I know this doesn't meet the requirements stated in the documentation (same hardware and os levels) and therefore I necessarily cannot blame Oracle for it.

After selecting 10000 rows from v$logmnr_contents (just 200 rows with sql_redo not null) the statements breaks with:

ORA-00356: inconsistent lengths in change description ORA-00353: log corruption near block 4099 change 140166141 time 07/05/99 17:27:0
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ORA-00334: archived log: '/users/home/oracle/spool/1_4666.dbf'

This happens to all the sample redo logs I tried. I am quite sure that the redo logs aren't broken.

Does anybody know if there's a switch that changes the behavior to "okay, I know that this log does not seem to be okay but I continue to try to disclose as much statements as I can". Or does it fail because of the different os levels ??

Regards,

Marco

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