Informix Error -714

Reasons / Common Causes

-714 is the mirror image of -713: it fires when encoding a BLOB descriptor for storage on optical media fails — per the official guidance, the specific reason is carried by an accompanying error from the optical subsystem itself, in the same -7000 to -7199 range.

1. An Optical Subsystem-level condition underlying the encode failure, carried by the accompanying error, per the official guidance.
2. A value being encoded that doesn't correspond to valid optical storage parameters (family, volume, offset), producing a descriptor the subsystem can't successfully encode.

Solutions / Resolution

1. Check the accompanying optical-subsystem error (in the -7000 to -7199 range), per the official guidance — that error carries the specific reason the encode failed.
2. Confirm the family/volume/offset values being encoded are valid for the target optical media configuration, before retrying.

Examples

Checking the accompanying optical-subsystem error

-- A -714 failure is accompanied by a second error in the -7000..-7199
-- range -- that error identifies the specific subsystem-level reason
-- (this errata set doesn't currently cover that separate numeric range).

Diagnostic Checks

1. Identify and look up the accompanying -7000..-7199 optical-subsystem error code — the documented path to the specific cause, per the official guidance.
2. Confirm the family/volume/offset values being encoded are valid on this instance's optical configuration.

Related Errors / Related Topics

• -711 — "Cannot insert encoded BLOB descriptor." A related DESCR() failure, at the insert stage.
• -712 — "Cannot insert encoded BLOB descriptor in non-optical BLOB columns." A related, more specific insert-stage failure.
• -713 — "Cannot decode encoded BLOB descriptor." The mirror-image failure, at the decode stage.

The mirror image of -713 — same accompanying -7000..-7199 error range carries the specific cause.