Informix Error -16314: Missing filename.

Cause and resolution

Missing filename.

If the Debugger is already loaded, you have not specified a filename after a READ command or after a command to redirect output to a file. Repeat the command, specifying the name of an input or output file.

If you were at the system prompt, you used the -F command-line option to invoke the Debugger, but you did not specify the name of an initialization file. Repeat the command, but this time either omit the -F option or specify the name of a .4db initialization file following the -F option.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-16314 fires when a filename is required but not supplied — per the official guidance.

A READ command, or a command redirecting output to a file, given without a filename, per the official guidance — the first named case, when the Debugger is already loaded.
The -F command-line option used to invoke the Debugger without naming a .4db initialization file, per the official guidance — the second named case, from the system prompt.

Solutions / Resolution

Repeat the command, specifying the name of an input or output file, per the official guidance, if the Debugger is already loaded.
Either omit -F, or specify the name of a .4db initialization file following it, per the official guidance, if invoking the Debugger from the system prompt.

Examples

Invoking the Debugger with -F but no filename

$ fgldb -F

Corrected

$ fgldb -F myinit.4db

Diagnostic Checks

Check whether the missing filename is for a READ/redirect command, or the -F command-line option, and supply the appropriate filename.

Related Errors / Related Topics

No closely related error codes are cross-referenced for -16314 in this set yet.

A required filename is missing — supply one for the READ/redirect command, or for -F's .4db initialization file.