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Informix Error -7400: Invalid API argument <argument-name>. </argument-name>

Cause and resolution

Invalid API argument <argument-name>. </argument-name>

Verify the arguments to the DataBlade API calls.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-7400 fires when a DataBlade API call receives an invalid argument — per the official guidance, the embedded argument-name identifies which one.

  1. An invalid value passed for the named DataBlade API argument, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.
Solutions / Resolution
  1. Verify the arguments to the DataBlade API calls, per the official guidance, against the embedded argument-name.
Examples
N/A

No specific triggering statement is documented beyond an invalid value for the named argument — see the DataBlade API reference for that call's argument requirements.

Diagnostic Checks
  1. Check the value passed for the argument named in the error message, against the DataBlade API's documented requirements for that call.
Related Errors / Related Topics
  • -7401 — "Invalid API usage ." A related DataBlade API error, about incorrect call context/sequencing rather than a specific argument's value.

A DataBlade API call received an invalid value for the named argument — check it against the API reference.