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Informix Error -5004: CSM: invalid context.

Cause and resolution

CSM: invalid context.

A CSM (Communications Support Module), in the database server or in the client, detected a context that contains invalid data or that is inconsistent with the current operation or CSM state. This error normally occurs during input or output message processing (as opposed to context establishment).

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

-5004 fires when a CSM (Communications Support Module), in the database server or the client, detects a context containing invalid data, or inconsistent with the current operation or CSM state — per the official guidance, this normally occurs during input/output message processing rather than context establishment.

  1. A CSM context with invalid or inconsistent data during message processing, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.
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 database server available.
Examples
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No specific triggering statement is documented beyond internal context-state corruption during message processing.

Diagnostic Checks
  1. Record the exact circumstances under which the error occurred, for use when escalating to IBM Informix Technical Support or the CSM vendor.
Related Errors / Related Topics
  • -5000 — "CSM error: ." The general CSM error code that this and other -500x codes specialize.

A CSM detected an invalid or inconsistent context during message processing — contact IBM Informix Technical Support or the CSM vendor.