2961675 - Fatal Error 9840 occurred when importing data during system copy - SAP ASE on Business Suite

Error 9840 reported both in application log and ASE log when importing data during system copy:

• (DB) ERROR: DDL statement failed
  (CREATE  INDEX "SOOS~SRQ" ON "SOOS" ( "MANDT" , "SNDREQ"  ) with consumers = 3 , statistics hashing )
  DbSlExecute: rc = 99
  (SQL error 21)
  error message returned by DbSl:
  [ASE Error SQL21][SAP][ASE ODBC Driver][Adaptive Server Enterprise]WARNING - Fatal Error 9840 occurred at Aug 17 2020  2:08PM.  Please note the error and time, and contact a user with System Administrator (SA) authorization.
• server WARNING - Fatal Error 9840 occurred at Aug 17 2020 11:24AM. Please note the error and time, and contact a user with System Administrator (SA) authorization.
  server Error: 9840, Severity: 20, State: 10
  server Internal hash based statistics collection error on column (SNDREQ). Contact SAP Technical Support for help.
   

• SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 16.0 for Business Suite
• SAP NetWeaver (NW) - All versions 
• SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 16.0

   CR 822594, 822594, Fatal Error 9840, 9840, statistics hashing, create index , KBA , BC-DB-SYB , Business Suite on Adaptive Server Enterprise , BC-SYB-ASE , Sybase ASE Database Platform (non Business Suite) , Bug Filed