ORA-02069: global_names parameter must be set to TRUE for this operation

the Oracle documentation description for “ORA-02069: global_names parameter must be set to TRUE for this operation” is:

“You tried to execute an operation that requires a remote mapping. This can not be done because the parameter called GLOBAL_NAMES is not set to TRUE. ”

This error message is one of the less understandable error messages even in the Oracle documentation standards.

Oracle resolution offer is to try setting the GLOBAL_NAMES parameter to TRUE with the following statement:

ALTER SESSION SET GLOBAL_NAMES = TRUE;

shortly, what this message means is that you are trying to perform an operation (update or insert, for example) on a remote database using a db link while trying to use a local function.
for example:
update remote_table@remote_data_base
set col1= local_function(value)

to resolve this, you can:

alter the session as oracle suggested:

ALTER SESSION SET GLOBAL_NAMES = TRUE;
or simply assign the value of the local function into a variable and use it in the update/insert command:

v_variable :=local_function(value);

update remote_table@remote_data_base
set col1= v_variable;

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