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Informix Error -55904: Error in spawned program.

Cause and resolution

Error in spawned program.

For ESQL/C: The esql command processor created a program (compiler, linker, or resource compiler) that returned an error and caused esql to terminate. Check the generated output to determine the error, resolve the error, and run the esql command processor again.

For ESQL/COBOL: The esqlcobo command processor created a program (compiler, linker, or resource compiler) that returned an error and caused esqlcobo to terminate. Check the generated output to determine the error, resolve the error, and run the esqlcobo command processor again.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-55904 fires when a program the command processor spawns (compiler, linker, or resource compiler) returns an error — per the official guidance.

  1. For ESQL/C: the esql command processor's spawned compiler/linker/resource compiler returned an error, terminating esql, per the official guidance — the first named case.
  2. For ESQL/COBOL: the esqlcobo command processor's spawned compiler/linker/resource compiler returned an error, terminating esqlcobo, per the official guidance — the second named case.
Solutions / Resolution
  1. Check the generated output to determine the specific error, per the official guidance, resolve it, and rerun the command processor.
Examples
N/A

No specific triggering statement is documented beyond a spawned program returning an error.

Diagnostic Checks
  1. Check the compiler/linker/resource-compiler output for the specific error, and resolve it before rerunning esql/esqlcobo.
Related Errors / Related Topics

No closely related error codes are cross-referenced for -55904 in this set yet.

A program spawned by the command processor (compiler, linker, or resource compiler) returned an error — check its output and resolve the error before rerunning.