--TARGET DATABASE

SQL> select * from V$DATABASE_INCARNATION ;

INCARNATION# RESETLOGS_CHANGE# RESETLOGS PRIOR_RESETLOGS_CHANGE# PRIOR_RES STATUS  RESETLOGS_ID PRIOR_INCARNATION#
------------ ----------------- --------- ----------------------- --------- ------- ------------ ------------------
           1                 1 10-AUG-04                       0           PARENT     533845665                  0
           2            366852 20-JAN-08                       1 10-AUG-04 PARENT     644512561                  1
           3           1417787 29-JAN-08                  366852 20-JAN-08 CURRENT    645287485                  2



--RMAN DATABASE

$ rman catalog rman/rman@tnsrman target sys/sys@tnstest

Recovery Manager: Release 10.1.0.3.0 - Production

Copyright (c) 1995, 2004, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

connected to target database: TEST (DBID=1942658987)
connected to recovery catalog database

RMAN> recover database;

Starting recover at 30-JAN-08
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: sid=159 devtype=DISK
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of recover command at 01/30/2008 10:38:41
RMAN-06004: ORACLE error from recovery catalog database: RMAN-20021: database not set
RMAN-06031: could not translate database keyword