SAP Note 17486 - ORA997 "Illegal Use of Long Datatype"

Symptom:

Access of a transparent database table terminates with ORACLE erro message ORA997: "Illegal Use of Long Datatype"

Cause and prerequisites

Attempt was made to query a field in a WHERE condition that has been defined in the database as LONG (RAW). This is not possible for fields with this data type, however.

Solution
The corresponding application program must be reprogrammed.