ORA-39358: Export dump file version 12.1.0.2.0 not compatible with target version 11.2.0.4.0

Problem:

While doing import got te below error.

ORA-39358: Export dump file version 12.1.0.2.0 not compatible with target version 11.2.0.4.0 .

Solution:

1. Check the compatible parameter of both source and target database.

Source:

SQL>show parameter compatible

NAME TYPE VALUE
------------------------------------ ----------- ---------
compatible string 12.1.0.2.0
noncdb_compatible boolean FALSE

Target:

SQL> show parameter compatible

NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
------------------------------------ ----------- --------
compatible                           string      11.2.0.4.0

Here the source compatible parameter is higher version(12.1.0.2) and target is lower(11.2.0.4).
An export dump file generated from database with higher compatible parameter cannot be imported to a database with lower compatible value.
Either both should be same or target db compatible can be higher than the source compatible.

To solve this while taking export use VERSION=11.2 parameter

expdp dumpfile=test.dmp logfile=test.log directory=EXPDIR full=y version=11.2

Now we can import without any issues.