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Informix Error -16349: Use nobreak for breakpoints and notrace for tracepoints.

Cause and resolution

Use nobreak for breakpoints and notrace for tracepoints.

You specified a breakpoint to the NOTRACE command or a tracepoint to the NOBREAK command. Each command can deal only with its own objects.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-16349 fires when NOTRACE is given a breakpoint, or NOBREAK is given a tracepoint — per the official guidance. Each command only handles its own kind of object.

  1. NOTRACE given a breakpoint, per the official guidance — the first named case.
  2. NOBREAK given a tracepoint, per the official guidance — the second named case.
Solutions / Resolution
  1. Use NOBREAK for breakpoints and NOTRACE for tracepoints, per the official guidance, matching the command to the object's actual kind.
Examples
NOTRACE given a breakpoint name
> NOTRACE mybrk
Corrected
> NOBREAK mybrk
Diagnostic Checks
  1. Check whether the named object is a breakpoint or a tracepoint, and use the matching command.
Related Errors / Related Topics

No closely related error codes are cross-referenced for -16349 in this set yet.

NOBREAK/NOTRACE was used on the wrong kind of object — match the command to whether the object is a breakpoint or a tracepoint.