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Informix Error -14506: CSS: CSM <csm-name>: unexpected return code <error-code> </error-code></csm-name>

Cause and resolution

CSS: CSM <csm-name>: unexpected return code <error-code> </error-code></csm-name>

A Communications Support Module returned an unusual completion status.

Contact IBM Informix Technical Support or the CSM vendor and have the following information available: CSS configuration files and sqlhosts information for both the client and the database server.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-14506 fires when a Communications Support Module (CSM) returns an unusual completion status — per the official guidance.

  1. A CSM returning an unusual completion status, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.
Solutions / Resolution
  1. Contact IBM Informix Technical Support or the CSM vendor, per the official guidance, with the CSS configuration files and sqlhosts information for both the client and the database server available.
Examples
N/A

No specific triggering statement is documented — this is reported as an internal error.

Diagnostic Checks
  1. Gather the CSS configuration files and sqlhosts information for both sides of the connection before escalating.
Related Errors / Related Topics
  • -14500 — "CSS: error " A related CSS internal error, general rather than a specific CSM return code.

A CSM returned an unusual completion status — gather the CSS configuration and sqlhosts details and contact IBM Informix Technical Support or the CSM vendor.