Informix Error -16383: Number of nested read commands limit exceeded.

Cause and resolution

Number of nested read commands limit exceeded.

You started a READ command that invoked another, which invoked another, and so on for more than ten nested READ commands. You must simplify your arrangement of .4db command files.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-16383 fires when READ commands nest more than ten levels deep — per the official guidance.

More than ten levels of nested READ commands, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.

Solutions / Resolution

Simplify the arrangement of .4db command files, per the official guidance, to reduce the nesting depth.

Examples

N/A

No specific triggering statement is documented beyond exceeding the ten-level nesting limit.

Diagnostic Checks

Trace the chain of READ commands, and flatten it to ten levels or fewer.

Related Errors / Related Topics

-16382 — "Command file filename is currently being processed." A related nested- READ error, about a circular reference rather than exceeding the depth limit.

READ commands are nested more than ten levels deep — simplify the .4db file arrangement.