Script failure

I was recently assigned to a project that uses informix (I have no previous experience). The base system is an windows box running Windows Server 2000. They have an existing build script that creates and loads a database that has worked on previous machines. They recently acquired new hardware (operating system is the same) and they imaged these machines the same way as previous machines. When they try to run the build script on these new machines, several steps do not seem to execute the way they should. One of the errors I can find indicates that the build_smi:mt_exec failed with a status of -1 and an errno of 0. In the windows event log, there are messages that seem to indicate that a MAX_OBJECTS for read/write has been exceeded. Other steps fail because the database is not in the appropriate state for the operation (e.g., adding logical space). Is there something in the environment settings or security policies that could cause problems like these? When run separately from the command line, the individual steps seem to operate correctly, so am wondering if it has to do with the environment the script is running in.

Problem has moved to a particular onbar -s -l that seems to be hanging. No cpu, no memory is showing as used