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Informix Error -6068: Data type not supported.

Cause and resolution

Data type not supported.

A column has a data type that this version of ALL does not support (for example, the BYTE data type). Review the requested column against the actual table, and use only the columns that have numeric or CHAR data types.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-6068 fires when a column has a data type this version of ALL doesn't support (e.g. BYTE) — per the archived catalogue.

  1. A column of an unsupported data type (e.g. BYTE), per the archived catalogue — the direct, only cause.
Solutions / Resolution
  1. Use only columns with numeric or CHAR data types, per the archived catalogue, when working with this version of ALL.
Examples
N/A

No specific triggering statement is documented beyond the function-level condition described above.

Diagnostic Checks
  1. Check the data types of the columns requested against ALL's supported set.
Related Errors / Related Topics

No closely related error codes are cross-referenced for this code in this set yet.

This version of ALL only supports numeric and CHAR columns — unsupported types like BYTE will raise this.