Informix Error -2955

-2955 The name field-tag is not a displayed field in this form.

The name that is shown appears in the ATTRIBUTES section but nowhere in the SCREEN section. Check the spelling of the name; it is wrong in one of those places, or it has been omitted from the screen layout.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-2955 fires when a name appears in ATTRIBUTES but nowhere in the SCREEN section — per the official guidance, the name is either misspelled in one of those two places, or it was omitted from the screen layout entirely.

A name defined in ATTRIBUTES but missing from SCREEN, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.

Solutions / Resolution

Check the spelling of the name in both ATTRIBUTES and SCREEN, per the official guidance.
If it's genuinely missing, add it to the screen layout, per the official guidance.

Examples

A tag defined in ATTRIBUTES but absent from SCREEN

ATTRIBUTES
  cust_name = customer.name;

SCREEN
{
Order #: [ordnum]
}
END
-- -2955: cust_name has no [cust_name] field in SCREEN

Corrected

SCREEN
{
Order #: [ordnum]
Customer: [cust_name          ]
}
END

Diagnostic Checks

Check every field tag defined in ATTRIBUTES against the SCREEN layout, and add or correct any missing entries.

Related Errors / Related Topics

-2941 — "name is not a display field name on the form." The mirror-image error: a reference to a field tag that's missing from ATTRIBUTES, rather than one missing from SCREEN.

A field tag defined in ATTRIBUTES doesn't appear in SCREEN — check spelling and add it to the screen layout if it was genuinely omitted.