Informix Error -1161

Reasons / Common Causes

-1161 fires when FMP (IBM Informix 4GL/RF) receives an operation that expects an active INPUT statement, but none is currently in progress — per the official guidance, this is a platform- level state/sequencing condition.

1. An operation issued that requires an in-progress INPUT statement, when none is active, per the official guidance — no further application-level detail is given beyond directing to the installation documentation.

Solutions / Resolution

1. Consult the installation documentation for your system, per the official guidance, for guidance on resolving this constraint.

Examples

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No specific triggering statement is documented — this is a platform-level state condition for the FMP (4GL/RF) runtime.

Diagnostic Checks

1. Check the FMP session's state for whether an INPUT statement is actually in progress at the time of the failing operation, per the installation documentation for the platform in use.

Related Errors / Related Topics

• -1158 — "FMP has run out of memory." A related FMP resource-limit error, about raw memory rather than statement state.
• -1159 — "FMP has exceeded its number of concurrent INPUT statements." A related FMP INPUT-statement error, about a concurrency limit rather than statement sequencing.
• -1160 — "FMP has exceeded its number of concurrent DISPLAY ARRAY statements." A related FMP concurrent-statement-limit error.

FMP expected an in-progress INPUT statement that isn't active — consult the installation documentation for the platform in use.