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Informix Error -4357: A page trailer has already been specified within this report.

Cause and resolution

A page trailer has already been specified within this report.

Only one PAGE TRAILER control block is allowed in a report. The statements in this control block must be suitable for all pages of the report. Find the other PAGE TRAILER control blocks, and combine all their statements into one control block.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-4357 fires when a report has more than one PAGE TRAILER control block — per the official guidance, only one is allowed, and its statements must suit every page of the report.

  1. More than one PAGE TRAILER control block in the same report, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.
Solutions / Resolution
  1. Find the other PAGE TRAILER control blocks, and combine all their statements into one, per the official guidance.
Examples
Duplicate PAGE TRAILER blocks
OUTPUT
  PAGE TRAILER
    PRINT "Footer line 1"
  PAGE TRAILER
    PRINT "Footer line 2"
  -- -4357: only one PAGE TRAILER block is allowed
Corrected
OUTPUT
  PAGE TRAILER
    PRINT "Footer line 1"
    PRINT "Footer line 2"
Diagnostic Checks
  1. Check the report for more than one PAGE TRAILER control block, and combine them.
Related Errors / Related Topics
  • -4356 — "A page header has already been specified within this report." The equivalent restriction applied to PAGE HEADER instead of PAGE TRAILER.
  • -4358 — "A first page header has already been specified within this report." The equivalent restriction applied to FIRST PAGE HEADER instead of PAGE TRAILER.

A report has more than one PAGE TRAILER control block — combine them into one.