You specified an invalid option or parameter in your sqlhosts file. Check the option ID and parameter associated with servername in the sqlhosts file.
Linux,UNIX: If you use either the IPC stream pipe (onipcstr) protocol or the IPC shared memory (onipcshm) protocol, ensure that the communications file directory (cfd option) is shorter than or equal to 70 bytes. If the directory is a relative path, the length includes the $INFORMIXDIR directory.