I was getting this TNS error while creating Listner with “netca”, here is the screenshot for the same.
D:\app\db193\bin>netca Oracle Net Services Configuration: Configuring Listener:LISTENERCBT ServiceAliasException: Could not initialize Service Alias: TNS-04404: no error caused by: oracle.net.config.ConfigException: TNS-04414: File error caused by: TNS-04605: Invalid syntax error: Unexpected char or LITERAL "IEPDB1" before or at IEPDB1 = ( Error in file D:\TNS_ADMIN\tnsnames.ora
This is my windows machine and creating new listner for my newly created CDB. DB version is 19.3
As above error shows that I have some issue with my tnsnames.ora with some of my TNS Entry with IEPDB1.
In my environment TNS_ADMIN environment variable is set and it is pointing to my D:\TNS_ADMIN\tnsnames.ora
Here I found some junk characters near IEPDB1 TNS entry, I removed it and save the file and ran netca again…
Now, all went good..
It solved my problem !!!