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Informix Error -14574: CSS: error processing initialization string: <parameter-string>. </parameter-string>

Cause and resolution

CSS: error processing initialization string: <parameter-string>. </parameter-string>

Communication Support Services could not get access to a Communications Support Module configuration provided by a Communication Support Services caller.

Check whether concsm.cfg exists. Check the configuration file, and the CSM option field in the sqlhosts file. If the problem persists, contact IBM Informix Technical Support or the CSM vendor and have the following information available: CSS configuration file (concsm.cfg) and sqlhosts information for both the client and the database server.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-14574 fires when Communication Support Services (CSS) can't access a Communications Support Module (CSM) configuration provided by its caller — per the official guidance.

  1. CSS unable to access the CSM configuration provided by the caller, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.
Solutions / Resolution
  1. Check whether concsm.cfg exists, per the official guidance.
  2. Check the configuration file, and the CSM option field in the sqlhosts file, per the official guidance.
  3. If the problem persists, contact IBM Informix Technical Support or the CSM vendor, per the official guidance, with the CSS configuration file (concsm.cfg) and sqlhosts information for both the client and the database server available.
Examples
Checking the configuration file exists
$ ls -l $INFORMIXDIR/etc/concsm.cfg
Diagnostic Checks
  1. Check that concsm.cfg exists and is readable, and check the sqlhosts CSM option field for the initialization string being processed.
Related Errors / Related Topics
  • -14575 — "CSS: invalid run-time parameters." A related configuration error, about the run-time parameters themselves being invalid rather than CSS being unable to access the configuration at all.

CSS couldn't access the CSM configuration for the given initialization string — check that concsm.cfg exists and the sqlhosts CSM option field is correct.