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Informix Error -8016

Cause and resolution

A comment has been opened but not closed. The last comment begun was opened on line line-number, character char-number.

Insert a close-comment symbol where appropriate in the report specification.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-8016 fires when a comment is opened but never closed before the end of the report specification — per the official guidance.

  1. A missing close-comment symbol for the comment opened at the reported line-number/char-number, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.
Solutions / Resolution
  1. Insert a close-comment symbol where appropriate in the report specification, per the official guidance.
Examples
An unclosed comment
{ This comment is never closed
PRINT "Order Report"
Corrected
{ This comment is now closed }
PRINT "Order Report"
Diagnostic Checks
  1. Go to the reported line-number/char-number where the comment was opened, and add the missing close symbol.
Related Errors / Related Topics
  • -8015 — "An open comment symbol, {, was found inside an already open comment..." A related comment-syntax error, about a comment nested inside another rather than left open at end-of-file.

A comment was opened but never closed — add the missing close-comment symbol.