Informix Error -22201: variable-name is not a unique record component.

Cause and resolution

variable-name is not a unique record component.

The name in the record has already been used, so it is not unique. Change the name of the record variable and try again.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-22201 fires when a record component name has already been used elsewhere in the record — per the official guidance, so it isn't unique.

A record component name already used elsewhere in the record, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.

Solutions / Resolution

Change the name of the record variable and try again, per the official guidance.

Examples

N/A

No specific triggering statement is documented beyond a duplicate record component name.

Diagnostic Checks

Check the record's component names for a duplicate, and rename the conflicting one.

Related Errors / Related Topics

-22232 — "variable-name is not a component of record-name." A related record- component error, on the name not existing in the record at all rather than being non-unique.

A record component's name wasn't unique — rename it.