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Informix Error -23613: Backup Manager Error: The session id is already in use by another session.

Cause and resolution

Backup Manager Error: The session id is already in use by another session.

A session ID supplied to onbar is the same as a currently active session ID. Resubmit the onbar command using a different session ID.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-23613 fires when a session ID supplied to onbar matches a currently active session ID — per the official guidance.

  1. A session ID matching one already active, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.
Solutions / Resolution
  1. Resubmit the onbar command with a different session ID, per the official guidance.
Examples
N/A

No specific triggering statement is documented beyond a duplicate session ID.

Diagnostic Checks
  1. Check active session IDs via onstat -g bus, and choose an unused one.
Related Errors / Related Topics
  • -23603 — "Invalid session name." A related session-identifier error, on the name being invalid rather than already in use.

A session ID was already in use by another session — choose a different one.