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Informix Error -14510: CSS: null buffer owner

Cause and resolution

CSS: null buffer owner

Communication Support Services internal error.

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

-14510 fires when Communication Support Services (CSS) hits an internal error involving a null buffer owner — per the official guidance.

  1. A CSS internal error involving a null buffer owner, per the official guidance — no further user-actionable detail is given.
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
  • -14577 — "CSS: no registered output buffer owner." A related buffer-owner error, about no owner being registered rather than a null owner.
  • -14578 — "CSS: null output buffer owner." The same null-owner condition, specific to the output buffer rather than a buffer generally.

A CSS internal error involved a null buffer owner — gather the CSS configuration and sqlhosts details and contact IBM Informix Technical Support or the CSM vendor.