2300510 - Database error 11216 returned in SM21 - SAP ASE for Business Suite

• Transaction SM21 reports Database error 11216.

• In the related developper trace file, you can see those details (note: if your system is a SOLMAN, it is important to identify the connection opened just previous to the error, it will indicate from which monitored SID comes the error):

B  Connect to <SID> as sapsa with SYBASE_DBOWNER=SAPSR3 SYBASE_CONN_TIMEOUT=10 SYBASE_DBNAME=<SID> SYBASE_SERVER=<servername> SYBASE_PORT=<port>

C  DbSlConnect hdl: 2
B  Connection 1 opened (DBSL handle 2)

C <datetime here>
C  ERROR: -1 in function StartSelect (execute) [line 22552]
C  (11216) [ZZZZZ] [SAP][ASE ODBC Driver][Adaptive Server Enterprise]Internal Ct-Lib/Cs-Lib error 3
C  3816856: 'cs_convert: cslib user api layer: common library error: The conversion
C  /operation was stopped due to a syntax error in the source field.'.
C
C  sql statement is ==> EXEC sybsystemprocs..sp_dump_history
C  dbdssyb: DBSL99 SQL11216
C  [ASE Error SQL11216][SAP][ASE ODBC Driver][Adaptive Server Enterprise]Internal Ct-Lib/Cs-Lib error 33816856: 'cs_convert: cslib u
C
B  ***LOG BY2=> sql error 11216 performing OPC [dbds         398]
B  ***LOG BY0=> [ASE Error SQL11216][SAP][ASE ODBC Driver][Adaptive Server Enterprise]Internal Ct-Lib/Cs-Lib error 33816856: 'cs_con
 [dbds         398]
B  ***LOG BY1=> sql error 11216 [dbacds       1843]
B  dbcon[db_con_disconnect]: disconnecting from connection 1 ...
C  DbSlDisconnect hdl: 2
B  dbcon[db_con_disconnect]: disconnected from connection 1
B

• SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 15.7 and 16.0 for Business Suite
• SAP Netweaver (NW) - All versions
• SAP Solution Manager (SOLMAN) 7.0 and 7.1

11216, SQL11216, "dump history" , KBA , BC-DB-SYB , Business Suite on Adaptive Server Enterprise , BW-SYS-DB-SYB , BW on Adaptive Server Enterprise , Problem