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Informix Error -14551: CSS: CSM: no CSM name specified.

Cause and resolution

CSS: CSM: no CSM name specified.

The user did not specify the name of a Communications Support Module to be used.

Check the CSM option field in the sqlhosts file, and the CSS configuration file.

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Reasons / Common Causes

-14551 fires when no Communications Support Module (CSM) name was specified for CSS to use — per the official guidance.

  1. No CSM name specified, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.
Solutions / Resolution
  1. Check the CSM option field in the sqlhosts file, and the CSS configuration file, per the official guidance.
Examples
N/A

No specific triggering statement is documented beyond a missing CSM name.

Diagnostic Checks
  1. Check the sqlhosts CSM option field and the CSS configuration file for a missing CSM name.
Related Errors / Related Topics
  • -14586 — "CSS: CSM descriptor: nameless CSM!" A related missing-name error, on a CSM descriptor in the CSS configuration file rather than the sqlhosts CSM option.

No CSM name was specified — check the sqlhosts CSM option field and the CSS configuration file.