While converting from Oracle 11g to 12c, we executed a simple Oracle Non Spatial Workspace that moved 4 million rows from a CSV file to an Oracle table on 12c. It consistently threw the
ORA-12592: TNS:bad packet error after running for 30-40 seconds.
We ran the same workspace against 11g and it worked fine.
After researching the issue we ended up modifying the Oracle 12c Server SQLNET.ora file by adding this parm:
SQLNET.SEND_TIMEOUT=600
Modifying the client side SQLBET.ORA did not resolve the issue. Modifying the server side SQLNET.ORA file did.