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Informix Error -11037: Serialization failure.

Cause and resolution

Serialization failure.

This Informix CLI error code is the same as SQLSTATE value 40001. The following functions can return this error code: SQLExecDirect(), SQLExecute(), SQLExtendedFetch(), and SQLFetch().

Informix CLI terminated the transaction to prevent deadlock. If you consistently receive this error, a problem exists with the logic in your application.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-11037 fires when Informix CLI terminates a transaction to prevent deadlock — per the official guidance, this is the same as SQLSTATE value 40001, returnable by SQLExecDirect(), SQLExecute(), SQLExtendedFetch(), and SQLFetch().

  1. A potential deadlock, which Informix CLI avoided by terminating the transaction, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.
Solutions / Resolution
  1. Review the application's transaction logic if this error recurs consistently, per the official guidance — a consistent occurrence points to an application-logic problem.
Examples
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No specific triggering statement is documented beyond a deadlock-avoidance transaction termination.

Diagnostic Checks
  1. Check the application's locking/transaction order if this error recurs, since a one-off is expected contention but a persistent pattern points to a logic bug.
Related Errors / Related Topics

No closely related error codes are cross-referenced for -11037 in this set yet.

Informix CLI terminated the transaction to prevent deadlock — review transaction logic if this recurs.