Informix Error -2025: The comment close symbol (}) has been found on line line, character column, even though no comment has been opened.

Cause and resolution

The comment close symbol (}) has been found on line line, character column, even though no comment has been opened.

Unless comment symbols are enclosed in quotes, they must be balanced. Probably you accidentally deleted the open-comment symbol when you were editing. Change the form specification so that comments are properly delimited.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-2025 fires when a } comment-close symbol appears with no matching open comment — per the official guidance, comment symbols (outside of quotes) must be balanced; this is commonly caused by accidentally deleting the opening { symbol while editing.

The opening { symbol accidentally deleted during editing, per the official guidance — the direct, named likely cause.
A } typed without ever opening a comment, more generally.

Solutions / Resolution

Change the form specification so comments are properly delimited, per the official guidance — add the missing {, or remove the stray }.

Examples

A stray closing comment symbol

ATTRIBUTES
  order_id = order_id; note about this field }
-- -2025: no matching { was found before this }

Corrected

ATTRIBUTES
  order_id = order_id; { note about this field }

Diagnostic Checks

Use the reported line/character position to locate the stray }, and check whether the matching { was accidentally deleted nearby.

Related Errors / Related Topics

-2015 — "An open comment symbol, { ... was found inside an already open comment." A related comment-syntax error, about a nested { rather than an unmatched }.
-2016 — "A comment has been opened, but not closed." The mirror-image restriction: a { with no matching }, rather than a } with no matching {.

A } appeared with no matching { — check whether the opening symbol was accidentally deleted.