2374442 - Error "Failed to load database information" in Oracle-based Crystal Reports in BI 4.x (Linux / Unix)

• When scheduling / viewing on-demand / or refreshing Crystal Reports documents, based on an Oracle database, the following error message is returned:
• Error in File <reportname>.rpt: Failed to load database information.
• In the log files, the following message is observed:
• The database connector '%1' could not be loaded. The correct version of the database client for this database type might not be installed.
• As the 'bobj' user, on the same server host, connectivity to Oracle from outside of BI Platform is working as expected, e.g. the following command must run successfully, including from a directory other than $ORACLE_CLIENT
• sqlplus username/password@tnsname
• replacing tnsname with the name of the connection, taken from tnsnames.ora; and username and password as appropriate
• and where all three values are the ones being used within BI

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• SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.x
• Crystal Reports 2011 / 2013 / 2016
• all supported Linux / Unix operating systems
• any supported Oracle client version

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0 ; SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.1 ; SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.2 ; SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.3

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