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Informix Error -16361

-16361 Invalid variable name variable-name.

The identifier variable-name is not the name of a variable. The VARIABLE command requires the name of a variable. Check the spelling of the name.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-16361 fires when a VARIABLE command's argument isn't the name of a variable — per the official guidance.

  1. A VARIABLE command argument that isn't a real variable name, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.
Solutions / Resolution
  1. Check the spelling of the name, per the official guidance.
Examples
N/A

No specific triggering statement is documented beyond an invalid variable name.

Diagnostic Checks
  1. Check the VARIABLE command's argument spelling against the program's actual variables.
Related Errors / Related Topics
  • -16351 — "Variable variable-name could not be located." A related variable-reference error, about a correctly-formed name that can't be found rather than an argument that isn't a variable name at all.

A VARIABLE command's argument isn't a real variable name — check its spelling.