tried that..but getting below error, when am trying to put more parameters in connect option : ERROR manager.SqlManager: Error executing statement: java.sql.SQLRecoverableException: IO Error: Invalid connection string format, a valid format is: "host:port:sid" java.sql.SQLRecoverableException: IO Error: Invalid connection string format, a valid format is: "host:port:sid" at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CConnection.logon(T4CConnection.java:489) at oracle.jdbc.driver.PhysicalConnection.<init>(PhysicalConnection.java:553) at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CConnection.<init>(T4CConnection.java:254) at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CDriverExtension.getConnection(T4CDriverExtension.java:32) at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.connect(OracleDriver.java:528) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:664) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:270) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.OracleManager.makeConnection(OracleManager.java:326) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.GenericJdbcManager.getConnection(GenericJdbcManager.java:52) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.execute(SqlManager.java:763) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.execute(SqlManager.java:786) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.getColumnInfoForRawQuery(SqlManager.java:289) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.getColumnTypesForRawQuery(SqlManager.java:260) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.getColumnTypes(SqlManager.java:246) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.ConnManager.getColumnTypes(ConnManager.java:328) at org.apache.sqoop.orm.ClassWriter.getColumnTypes(ClassWriter.java:1853) at org.apache.sqoop.orm.ClassWriter.generate(ClassWriter.java:1653) at org.apache.sqoop.tool.CodeGenTool.generateORM(CodeGenTool.java:107) at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.importTable(ImportTool.java:488) at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.run(ImportTool.java:615) at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.run(Sqoop.java:147) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:76) at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runSqoop(Sqoop.java:183) at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:225) at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:234) at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.main(Sqoop.java:243) Caused by: oracle.net.ns.NetException: Invalid connection string format, a valid format is: "host:port:sid" at oracle.net.resolver.AddrResolution.resolveSimple(AddrResolution.java:498) at oracle.net.resolver.AddrResolution.resolveAndExecute(AddrResolution.java:437) at oracle.net.ns.NSProtocol.establishConnection(NSProtocol.java:693) at oracle.net.ns.NSProtocol.connect(NSProtocol.java:251) at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CConnection.connect(T4CConnection.java:1140) at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CConnection.logon(T4CConnection.java:340) ... View more

Hi Geoffrey, thanks for your thoughts. i have implemented the jceks for encrypting passwords while sending the import request. however, i want the rsponse, i.e the data to come through a secure channel from source to hadoop. like in http(s) we implement certificate based authentication, is anything similar there for sqoop? note : am not having sqoop2 ... View more