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Informix Error -23087: No source or object file.

Cause and resolution

No source or object file.

You have not specified either a source file or an object file on the command line for the ESQL processor. Re-enter the command and specify either a source file or an object file.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-23087 fires when neither a source file nor an object file is specified on the ESQL processor's command line — per the official guidance.

  1. Neither a source file nor an object file specified, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.
Solutions / Resolution
  1. Re-enter the command and specify either a source file or an object file, per the official guidance.
Examples
N/A

No specific triggering statement is documented beyond omitting both source and object files.

Diagnostic Checks
  1. Check the command line for a source or object file argument, and add one.
Related Errors / Related Topics
  • -23098 — "No source file." A related missing-file error, specific to the source file when an object file was given but no source file was.

Neither a source nor object file was specified — add one.