"Creating a STANDARD report (non interactive) - using the CREATE PAGE wizard or the CREATE REGION wizard, after entering in the SQL, it will throw a simple error page (wwv_flow.accept) showing the error ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column
Workaround:
Run the same wizard with select * from dual to get the page and region created.
Once it is created - edit the region - and place the long nasty query in the region source. It will then take and work as expected."
Source:
https://community.oracle.com/thread/2176773?tstart=0