Websphere 7/Data Sources: ORA-01017: invalid username/password;

Question

I am setting up multiple datasources on WS 7 for JNDI access.

After clicking one of the datasources -> Connection Pool Properties -> Connection Pool Custom Properties , I gave two properties:

Property1 Name: user
value: someuser

Property2 Name: password
value: somepassword

And after save the configuration and get back to that data source, I hit the Test connection button so it give me a nice exception:

java.sql.SQLException: ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied DSRA0010E: SQL State = 72000, Error Code = 1,017

And I do see that exception from JVM log as well. The issue remains even get the server restarted?

What's going wrong then?

Update 1

Forget to mention that I have set JAAS authentication to none but still get the exceptions..

Answer 1

You may try using an 'J2C authentication alias' to define your username/password pair instead of custom properties. You may see the link for J2C Authentication Alias definitions at right hand side of datasource definition screen. After you define you username/password pair as an authentication alias, you shall select that alias for your datasource form the list of aliases.

For reference you may check Configuring a data source using the administrative console (item 10) at infocenter.